Daryl Hannah, the former girlfriend of the late John F. Kennedy Jr., is forcefully condemning the new television series about her ex.

On Friday, the “Kill Bill” actor published an essay in The New York Times in which she described “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” as “tragedy-exploiting” and an example of “textbook misogyny” while zeroing in on how she is portrayed in the show by actor Dree Hemingway.

“The character ‘Daryl Hannah’ portrayed in the series is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life, my conduct or my relationship with John,” Hannah wrote. “The actions and behaviors attributed to me are untrue. 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 went on to note: “It’s appalling to me that I even have to defend myself against a television show. These are not creative embellishments of personality. They are assertions about conduct — and they are false.”

Hannah was hot off a string of hit films, including “Splash” and “Steel Magnolias,” when she and Kennedy began dating in 1989. Their on-again, off-again romance is believed to have still been ongoing when Kennedy was introduced to his future wife, Carolyn Bessette, in the early ’90s.

Kennedy, the son of former President John F. Kennedy, ended his relationship with Hannah shortly after the death of his mother, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in 1994. He and Bessette married in 1996, about three years before they were killed when the private plane Kennedy was piloting crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Elsewhere in her essay, Hannah deemed her “Love Story” characterization as “irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate,” and said she’d since “received many hostile and even threatening messages” from viewers who “seem to believe the portrayal is factual.”

“My professional life is built on compassion and responsibility. Reputation is not about ego; it is about the ability to continue doing the meaningful work I love,” she concluded. “Like any career, doing good work requires an intact reputation. This is why I am choosing to stand up for myself now.”

“Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” premiered on FX and Hulu last month and is the first installment in what is expected to be an anthology series. It was executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, whose credits include “Glee” and “American Horror Story.”

The show is based on Elizabeth Beller’s 2024 book “Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy,” and stars Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon as Kennedy and Bessette-Kennedy, respectively.

While reviews of “Love Story” have been mixed, those with personal ties to the couple at the center of the series aren’t singing its praises. This includes Kennedy’s nephew, Jack Schlossberg, who gave the show “a capital ‘F’ for fiction” in a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview that aired Sunday.

The aspiring New York lawmaker said of Murphy, “The guy knows nothing about what he’s talking about, and he’s making a ton of money on a grotesque display of someone else’s life.”

The producer, however, is seemingly taking the criticism in stride. Appearing on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast last year, he suggested Schlossberg, 33, would’ve been too young at the time of many of the events depicted in the series to vouch for their authenticity.

“I thought it was an odd choice to be mad about your relative that you really don’t remember,” he said.

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