Daryl Hannah has no love for “Love Story.”
The actress wrote a scathing essay for the New York Occasions printed Friday slamming the Ryan Murphy present, which highlights Hannah’s romance with John F. Kennedy Jr. earlier than he fell in love with Carolyn Bessette.
Dree Hemingway performs Hannah within the sequence.
“I’ve lengthy believed that partaking with distortion typically amplifies it,” the 65-year-old actress wrote in the beginning of her essay.
“However a latest tragedy-exploiting tv sequence about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette contains a character utilizing my title and presents her as me,” Hannah continued. “The selection to painting her as irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate was no accident.”
Hannah insisted the sequence — which stars Paul Anthony Kelly as Kennedy Jr. and Sarah Pidgeon as Bessette — isn’t “a remotely correct illustration of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John.”
“The actions and behaviors attributed to me are unfaithful,” she added.
Hannah continued, “I’ve by no means used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled events. I’ve by no means pressured anybody into marriage. I’ve by no means desecrated any household heirloom or intruded upon anybody’s personal memorial. I’ve by no means planted any story within the press. I by no means in contrast Jacqueline Onassis’ dying to a canine’s.”
She additionally mentioned “it’s appalling” that she has to “defend” herself in opposition to a TV present, reiterating that the “gildings” of her persona are “false.”
Later in her essay, Hannah famous that her “silence shouldn’t be mistaken for settlement with lies.”
“Apparently, my discretion makes me a goal,” she mentioned, including, “Repute isn’t about ego — it’s concerning the means to proceed doing the significant work I like. Like several profession, doing good work requires an intact popularity. Because of this I’m selecting to face up for myself now.”
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