John F. Kennedy Jr.’s cousin says Daryl Hannah’s controversial portrayal on “Love Story” is totally fabricated.
Douglas Kennedy — who has not watched the FX sequence — solely tells Web page Six that the present’s tackle Hannah is “unlucky.”
“Daryl Hannah was nice,” he says. “At any time when I noticed her, she was very candy and had [John’s] greatest pursuits at coronary heart. I feel that’s a misrepresentation.”
As for Carolyn Bessette — JFK Jr.’s spouse who perished alongside him and her sister Lauren on the ill-fated July 1999 flight — viewers watched as she has struggled to really feel accepted by her sister-in-law, Caroline Kennedy, and household matriarch, Ethel Kennedy.
However Douglas, the tenth baby of Robert F. Kennedy and his spouse, Ethel, tells Web page Six, “All people round Carolyn beloved Carolyn.”
“It’s tough to seize the intricacies of individuals’s lives in films or tv,” he continues. “If you understand folks, some of these issues usually fail in capturing the essence of who folks have been.”
“John was the chief of my technology,” he provides. “He was irreplaceable.”
Hannah — performed by actress Dree Hemingway on the present — broke her silence on the illustration of their relationship in a scathing essay within the New York Instances Friday.
The “Splash” actress claims the character is depicted as “irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate” on the Ryan Murphy-produced present.
“The character ‘Daryl Hannah’ portrayed within the sequence isn’t even a remotely correct illustration of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John,” Hannah, 65, insisted. “The actions and behaviors attributed to me are unfaithful.”
On the present, JFK Jr.’s sister, Caroline Kennedy, and his mother, Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy, appeared displeased by his relationship with the actress.
The actress then stated of the present’s inconsistencies with actual life, “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 non-public memorial.
“I’ve by no means planted any story within the press. I by no means in contrast Jacqueline Onassis’ loss of life to a canine’s.”
She added how “appalling” it’s for her to should “defend” herself in opposition to the sequence.
Hannah penned that she has “obtained many hostile and even threatening messages from viewers who appear to consider the portrayal is factual.”
“My silence shouldn’t be mistaken for settlement with lies,” she continued. “Apparently, my discretion makes me a goal.”
JFK Jr. and Hannah dated on and off from 1988 to 1994.
The sequence covers Kennedy Onassis’ 1994 loss of life, which occurred across the identical time because the passing of Hannah’s canine.
Kennedy Jr. was strolling her canine in Central Park when the pooch managed to get free and was killed by a automotive.
“JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography” claims Kennedy Jr. was “deeply resentful” Hannah made him come to her canine’s funeral in Los Angeles whereas his mother was dying of most cancers in New York.
A scene additionally reveals drug use in Kennedy Jr.’s NYC condominium, prompting an argument between the on-again, off-again couple.
“Love Story” airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on FX and Fridays on Hulu.
