Speaking publicly for the first time since her June acquittal in a high-profile Massachusetts murder retrial, Karen Read noted she is not at all involved with the Elizabeth Banks-led Prime Video limited series currently in development about her infamous case.
“I have nothing to do with that; it’s not authorized by me in any way,” Read told talk show host Howie Carr in an interview yesterday. “There is more to this story — I won’t say another side, I think that the public at large knows this story, they know the truth, but there’s a lot more to it than what, I think, Elizabeth Banks knows at this point.”
She added, “I’ve never spoken to her. I have not blessed this, no.”
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Meanwhile, her attorney Alan Jackson added, “At the end of the day, this is Karen Read’s story to tell; it’s not Hollywood’s story to make up and to fill in blanks that they want to fill in, to take poetic license, literary license, movie license … It’s a little bit of a shame that she was never even consulte
