Daryl Hannah Denounces FX Series on JFK Jr. Relationship

Actress and activist Daryl Hannah has publicly denounced the FX limited series "Love Story," which portrays her past relationship with John F. Kennedy Jr. in what she describes as a deeply inaccurate and harmful manner. In a guest essay published Friday in The New York Times, Hannah detailed the falsehoods depicted in the show, which premiered on February 12 and chronicles Kennedy's romance with Carolyn Bessette before their 1999 plane crash deaths.

Hannah, who dated Kennedy on and off for about five years starting in the late 1980s until 1994, wrote that the character bearing her name "is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John." She specifically refuted several scenes, stating, "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." Hannah emphasized that these elements are "assertions about conduct and they are false," adding, "It's appalling to me that I even have to defend...