Bethenny Frankel thinks Daryl Hannah could have done a “better” job landing her scathing takedown of Ryan Murphy’s “Love Story.”
The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum shared her “take on Daryl Hannah’s take” in a TikTok video Sunday.
Frankel, 55, told her followers she believes the actress, 65, was “totally valid” in her bombshell New York Times essay blasting her “whiny” portrayal in the Hulu series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
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However, the Bravolebrity noted, “I think if she had educated the audience on many things that were a discrepancy, it would have made her particular portrayal being a discrepancy more credible.
“If she gave, like, 10 ways the story is false, then we would have believed her portrayal is false,” the former reality star continued.
Frankel went on to dub the show, which stars Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon, “most[ly] fiction.”
She insisted, “I’ve been up to the Calvin Klein showrooms and it wasn’t like that. … The difference is the younger generation believes it to be fact when people my age know it’s sensationalism for entertainment, success and ratings.”
The Skinnygirl creator compared the project to the “Titanic,” saying, “There are many ways to entertain an audience to get them to listen to a story. The story seems to be a basis or a framework.”
Frankel doubled down on there being “so much wrong” in the show, noting that many “characters [were] left out” of the narrative altogether.
The nine episodes, notably, cover Kennedy Jr. and Bessett’s love story up to their tragic deaths in a 1999 plane crash.
Hannah, who dated Kennedy Jr. on and off between 1988 and 1994 before he moved on with Bessette, is played by Dree Hemingway.
The “Blade Runner” star railed against the “tragedy-exploiting” show on Friday, labeling it a “false … distortion” with “embellishments.”
Not only did Hannah deny being “irritating, self-absorbed … and inappropriate,” but she hit back at specific plot points, from “compar[ing] Jacqueline Onassis’ death to a dog’s” to “desecrat[ing] a family heirloom.”
Murphy has yet to respond to Hannah’s viral essay.
Kennedy Jr.’s cousin Douglas Kennedy told Page Six last week that Hannah “was great” and called the show, which he has yet to watch, “a misrepresentation” of her character.
“Love Story” airs weekly on Thursdays (9 p.m.) on FX and Fridays on Hulu.
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