Daryl Hannah Escaped From Harvey Weinstein & Got Blacklisted From Hollywood. 'Love Story' Made Her 'Whiny' & 'Irritating'
Love Story, the Ryan Murphy–produced show, is far from a factual depiction of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s relationship, but there may not be anyone getting a worse depiction than Daryl Hannah.
Hannah had a five-year, on-off relationship with John F. Kennedy Jr. between 1989 and 1994, which overlapped with the beginning of his relationship with Bessette. Thus, she appears as a character in the show (played by Dree Hemingway), serving as an antagonistic figure in JFK Jr. and Bessette’s romance.
In a scathing New York Times op-ed on March 6, Hannah described the show’s portrayal of her as “irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate,” emphasizing that the character is “not even a remotely accurate representation of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John.”
“I have never used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled parties. I have never pressured anyone into marriage. I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial. I have never planted any story in the press. I never compared Jacqueline Onassis’ death to a dog’s,” she wrote, taking storylines in the show to task and calling the characterization “textbook misogyny.”
The truth behind Hannah’s high-profile relationship with JFK Jr. is something we may never know, but there are facts we know about the actress’s life that are at odds with the mopey portrayal Love Story relies on.
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In 2017, Hannah was one of many women who brought sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein in a series of exposé articles by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker. Hannah, who worked with Weinstein during the production of Kill Bill, told Farrow that Weinstein once pounded on her hotel room door, forcing her to escape out a back entrance. When it happened again the following night, she barricaded herself in the room by pushing furniture against the door. Later, the convicted rapist asked if he could touch her breast.
Hannah said that she believes that after she refused, Weinstein sabotaged her career.
“I am a private person, with a rule of speaking to the press only for professional reasons,” she told Farrow. “I feel a moral obligation to support the women who have suffered much more egregious transgressions.”
You won’t find the woman who fled Weinstein and bravely spoke out against him in Love Story, and according to Hannah, you won’t find the real Hannah in it at all.
“It’s appalling to me that I even have to defend myself against a television show,” she wrote in The New York Times. “These are not creative embellishments of personality. They are assertions about conduct — and they are false.”
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