Mia Farrow’s Son Moses Makes Renewed Claims About Sister Tam’s Death 25 Years Later
Mia Farrow’s son Moses Farrow made a Facebook post reviving claims about the 2000 death of his sister Tam
Moses claims Tam died by suicide, while Mia previously said she had an “accidental prescription overdose”
Moses’ siblings Dylan and Ronan previously spoke out against Moses’ allegations
Mia Farrow’s son Moses is paying tribute to his late sister Tam while reviving unconfirmed claims about her death 25 years later.
Moses, 47, has previously spoken out against his mother Mia, now 80. The Rosemary’s Baby actress is the mother of 14 children, 10 of whom were adopted.
In a Facebook post shared Tuesday, Nov. 11, Moses marked sister Tam’s birthday and wrote about her death in 2000. “What would she be like today? How would her life have turned out?” he began the lengthy post.
Mia adopted Tam, a blind child born in Vietnam, in 1992, the same year as her tumultuous breakup with Woody Allen.
“Through the years,” Moses wrote, “Tam learned to adjust, she assimilated to embrace being American and sever any ties to Vietnam. As I look back now, Tam was taken from her homeland just as I had been. She was assimilated into the suburban New England life in America. Like the rest of us, she was targeted and bought to play a role in an elaborate fantasy.”
Mia Farrow and her daughters, Lark Previn (1973 – 2009), Summer Song, Soon-Yi Previn and her son Moses Farrow during the 1991 D.W. Griffith Awards
Mia Farrow and her daughters, Lark Previn, Summer Song, Soon-Yi Previn and her son Moses Farrow.
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He added that he “never got to see the real Tam and she never got to see the real me,” writing, “We were both trapped in a fantasy of someone else’s design and purpose. We laughed, we played, and in our own ways we looked out for each other. Tam confided in me and I listened.”
Moses said he and Tam were “both aware and silently outraged with how we were being treated,” and that the alleged “burden, the abuse, the injustice ended when she took her life,” he wrote.
In 2021, after the release of the HBO docuseries Allen v. Farrow, Mia opened up about Tam’s death in a public statement addressing “vicious rumors based in untruths” surrounding her loss.
“My beloved daughter Tam passed away at 17 from an accidental prescription overdose related to the agonizing migraines she suffered, and her heart ailment,” she said at the time.
Mia Farrow attends The 78th Annual Tony Awards
Mia Farrow.
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Moses, in his recent Facebook message, alleged that Tam’s death was a suicide, a claim he previously voiced in a 2018 blog post.
“The world may believe it was an accidental death, believe that it was her blindness that caused her to overdose,” he wrote in the recent post, “but when you’ve walked the same path, shared the same experience, put through the same industry, there is no mistaking the kind of pain we are forced to carry.”
Moses’ post also mentioned the death of two more of his siblings: Lark in 2008 at age 35, and Thaddeus in 2016 at age 27.
Mia also addressed those family tragedies in her 2021 statement. She wrote that Lark died from “complications of HIV/AIDS, which she contracted from a previous partner.”
“Despite her illness she lived a fruitful and loving life with her children and longtime partner. She succumbed to her illness & died suddenly in the hospital on Christmas, in her partner’s arms,” wrote Mia at the time.
She then added that Thaddeus died by suicide after a breakup.
American actor Mia Farrow walking outdoors at Lincoln Center with four of her children at the premiere of director Jon Blair’s documentary, ‘Anne Frank Remembered,’
Mia Farrow with four of her children.
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“These are unspeakable tragedies. Any other speculation about their deaths is to dishonor their lives and the lives of their children and loved ones,” the actress wrote at the time.
“I am grateful to be the mother of 14 children who have blessed me with 16 grandchildren. Although we have known sorrow, our lives today are full of love and joy,” she added at the time. “Everyone has their own battle to fight; their own sorrows that gnaw. I send you my best hopes and my love.”
Over the years, Moses has defended his father, Woody Allen, now 89, the director-actor whom daughter Dylan accused of sexual abuse, which he has denied.
After Moses’ 2018 blog post alleged a troubled childhood and attempted to discredit Dylan’s allegations against Allen, younger siblings Dylan, 40, and Ronan, 37, responded in support of Mia.
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“My mother did an extraordinary job raising us, and none of my siblings with whom I’ve spoken ever witnessed anything but love and care from a single mom who went through hell to keep her kids safe,” said Ronan at the time.
Dylan said at the time: “My brother [Moses] is a troubled person; I’m so sorry he’s doing this,” and Mia “has only ever been supportive of me and my siblings.”
She added that Moses’ claims in that essay are “easily disproven, contradicts years of his own statements, is beyond hurtful to me personally, and is part of a larger effort to discredit and distract from my assault.”