Daryl Hannah Issues Scathing Response To Portrayal Of Her On Tv Series About Kennedy And Bessette

Daryl Hannah has issued a scathing consequence to nan caller TV bid astir John F. Kennedy Jr. and woman Carolyn Bessette, denouncing nan measurement she's been portrayed successful nan FX and Hulu show arsenic false, damaging and misogynistic.

“How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?” was nan header of nan actor's impermanent effort Friday successful nan New York Times.

“Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” is simply a romanticist look astatine nan emotion matter and matrimony of nan famously stylish couple, who died successful 1999 on pinch Bessette’s sister, Lauren, erstwhile a mini level piloted by Kennedy collapsed into nan Atlantic connected a hazy night.

Hannah had dated Kennedy earlier he met and joined Bessette, and is portrayed successful what tin only beryllium described arsenic a distinctly unflattering measurement successful nan series. The characteristic is played by Dree Hemingway.

“The characteristic ‘Daryl Hannah’ portrayed successful nan bid is not moreover a remotely meticulous practice of my life, my behaviour aliases my narration pinch John,” Hannah, 65, wrote. “The actions and behaviors attributed to maine are untrue.”

She went connected to refute circumstantial actions attributed to her character, who appears successful nan first 3 episodes. “I person ne'er utilized cocaine successful my life aliases hosted cocaine-fueled parties,” Hannah wrote. “I person ne'er pressured anyone into marriage. I person ne'er desecrated immoderate family heirloom aliases intruded upon anyone’s backstage memorial.

“I person ne'er planted immoderate communicative successful nan press,” she continued. “I ne'er compared Jacqueline Onassis’ decease to a dog’s. It’s appalling to maine that I moreover person to take sides myself against a tv show.”

FX said it had nary contiguous remark connected Hannah's charges.

Hannah is not nan first to bitterly knock nan show and impeach producers, particularly executive shaper Ryan Murphy, of profiting disconnected nan Kennedy family’s tragic past successful an unseemly way. Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy’s nephew who is moving for Congress successful New York, has been peculiarly vocal.

But Hannah’s criticisms were much personal, since she is simply a characteristic connected nan show. She noted that producers had been clear already that they were positioning Hannah arsenic an obstacle to nan cardinal emotion story. She said it was frankincense nary mishap she was portrayed arsenic “irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate.”

Hannah quoted published comments from shaper Nina Jacobson, saying: “Given really overmuch we’re rooting for John and Carolyn, Daryl Hannah occupies a abstraction wherever she’s an adversary to what you want narratively successful nan story.”

Jacobson besides said successful nan aforesaid question and reply that creators “always effort to travel from a spot of compassion” erstwhile portraying real-life characters, and effort to beryllium “very mindful of giving group nan magnitude and complexity that they merit arsenic quality beings.”

Clearly, that is not really Hannah felt she was treated.

The erstwhile character said she now useful successful biology advocacy, documentary filmmaking and animal-assisted therapy for seniors surviving pinch dementia and Alzheimer’s. “My master life is built connected compassion and responsibility.,” she wrote. “Reputation is not astir ego; it is astir nan expertise to proceed doing nan meaningful activity I love. Like immoderate career, doing bully activity requires an intact reputation. This is why I americium choosing to guidelines up for myself now.”

She began her effort recalling words spoken to her by Kennedy’s precocious mother.

“Jacqueline Onassis erstwhile gave maine immoderate wise advice: She told maine that while tabloids, magazines and newspapers often sold ridiculous lies, they were thing much than vertebrate cage liner by nan adjacent day,” Hannah wrote, saying that astatine nan time, those words were comforting.

“But coming they nary longer clasp true,” Hannah added, noting that successful nan integer age, “lies unrecorded online forever.”

She besides said she saw misogyny successful nan attraction connected her arsenic an unappealing rival to Bessette.

“Popular civilization has agelong elevated definite women by portraying others arsenic rivals, obstacles aliases villains,” Hannah wrote. “Isn’t it textbook misogyny to tear down 1 female successful bid to build up another?”