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Daryl Hannah denounces her 'appalling' and 'false' depiction in JFK Jr. 'Love Story' series

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06.03.2026

Daryl Hannah denounces her ‘appalling’ and ‘false’ depiction in JFK Jr. ‘Love Story’ series

Actor Daryl Hannah sharply condemned her depiction in the John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-centered “Love Story” TV series, calling it “false” and “textbook misogyny” in a New York Times opinion piece published Friday. 

“It’s appalling to me that I even have to defend myself against a television show,” Hannah wrote in her op-ed. “These are not creative embellishments of personality. They are assertions about conduct — and they are false.” 

The new Ryan Murphy-directed “Love Story” on FX follows Kennedy and Bessette, who married in 1996 and tragically died in a plane crash three years later.

One character in the show, played by Dree Hemingway, uses Hannah’s name and presents as the actor, who dated Kennedy between 1988 and 1994. 

“The actions and behaviors attributed to me are untrue,” the real-life Hannah writes. “I have never used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled parties. I have never pressured anyone into marriage. I have never........

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