Dylan Farrow joins the hundreds of women who have come forward to share their story of sexual assault in the entertainment industry as she shares the details of her sexual assault allegations against her adoptive father, actor and director, Woody Allen.

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It was at the age of seven that Farrow told her mother, actress Mia Farrow, that she was molested by her adoptive father. Several years later, Farrow went public with an open letter in the New York Times in 2014. For almost two decades, Farrow has stood by her story. Allen, however, has denied all allegations.

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Almost four years later, Farrow has come forward once again to reveal startling details regarding her child molestation on “CBS This Morning,” in her Connecticut home.

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Now 32, Farrow has been married for eight years and the mother of a 16-month-old girl. Although her new family may seen like a fresh start, Farrow admits to carrying around the emotional scars brought upon her own father.

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Farrow graphically revealed her first sexual assault encounter with her father back in 1992. Farrow described how the incident began in a small attic crawl space in her mother’s country house in Connecticut. She allegedly was told by her father to lay down on her stomach and play with her brother’s toy trains. As she played with the toy trains, Farrow said her father sexually assaulted her.

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“As a seven-year-old, I would have said, he touched my private parts,” Farrow said. “As a 32-year-old, he touched my labia and my vulva with his finger.”

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Farrow told her mother, who was shopping that day, and immediately thought she had done something wrong after seeing her mother’s devastated reaction.

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Her mother took her to the pediatrics, where she was to explain where she had been touched. At first, Farrow, out of embarrassment, pointed to her shoulder when asked by the doctor. She was told to come back in the room and explain where she really was touched.

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Allen took to this story as misguided, suggesting Farrow had changed her story due to her mother’s coaching. However, months later, Mia found nude pictures of her previously adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, in Allen’s apartment. Allen confessed to the affair with Soon-Yi, and remains married to her to this day after 20 years.

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Allen had adopted Farrow along with her 13-year-old brother, Moses, not long before the incidents began. However, Farrow stated that the incident in the attic was not the only one that happened.

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“He often asked me to get into bed with him when he had only his underwear on and sometimes when only I had my underwear on,” Farrow said in the interview.

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Nevertheless, Allen was never charged with the crime after New York state child welfare investigators and a report by the Yale New Haven hospital claimed that the abuse did not happen. However, the Connecticut state prosecutor on the case, Frank Maco, believed that the Yale  New Haven’s report did not provide enough credibility and that there was probable cause to charge, but was afraid Farrow was too fragile to face a celebrity trial.

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Farrow admitted in the interview that she wished they would have gone and filed the charges.

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“You know, honestly yes. I do wish that they had, you know, even if I'm just speaking in retrospect,” Farrow said. “ I was already traumatized. … Here's the thing. I mean, outside of a court of law, we do know what happened in the attic on that day. I just told you.”

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“...I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago,” Allen stated in response to Farrow’s interview with “CBS This Morning.” Allen continues to deny all allegations of sexual assault, concluding that Farrow was a vulnerable child who was coached into believing her father was a sexual predator by her mother during the midst of the breakup. Dylan’s older brother, Moses, agreed to this accusation, stating that he witnessed his mother relentlessly convincing Farrow that her father molested her.

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“But even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time's Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn't make it any more true today than it was in the past,” Allen concluded.

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The rise of sexual assault charges continues as olympic gymnasts, consisting of over 100 women and girls, came forward one-by-one in a courtroom feet away from former team doctor, Lawrence G. Nassar,who pleaded guilty to molestation charges. Among these women who stepped up to the podium to address their molester were gold medalist Aly Raisman and teammate, Jordyn Wieber. Raisman, 23, told of late-night knocks on her hotel door during the past two Summer olympics where Nassar abused her.

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“Imagine feeling like you have no power and no voice,” Ms. Raisman said Friday. “Well, you know what, Larry? I have both power and voice, and I am only just beginning to use them. All these brave women have power, and we will use our voices to make sure you get what you deserve: a life of suffering spent replaying the words delivered by this powerful army of survivors.”

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After several over women came forward to address Nassar, the impact of the trial has left the doctor with little to no defense. Michigan State University, where Nassar was employed, also is facing increase pressure after revelations that 14 people, including the president, Lou Anna K. Simon, had been warned about his conduct.

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As 2018 marches on, so do the hundreds of women who continue to speak up about their survival stories of sexual assault. As the pattern continues, several powerful men face the consequences in the entertainment world and beyond.