Larry Birkhead recently spoke out against the upcoming Anna Nicole Smith biopic, Trust Me, I’m a Doctor.
During an interview with Entertainment Tonight published on July 9, the father of Smith’s daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, 19, made it clear that they are not involved in the production in any way.
“We absolutely object to, you know, any of Anna Nicole’s, my life, my daughter’s life being used in a movie,” he told ET. “And being made characters out of by someone that was a doctor that supposedly that people were supposed to trust.
In 2007, Smith died at 39, following an accidental overdose. The film, starring Abbie Cornish, follows Dr. Sandeep Kapoor’s (Kal Penn) 2017 book, which details the physician’s implication in Smith’s death after her body was found in a hotel room in Hollywood, Florida. Kapoor had prescribed methadone to the Playboy model under a false name.
Birkhead, 53, also told ET, “I recently saw the actress that is portraying Anna. You know, I’m sure she’s probably a nice girl and a great actress. But I don’t think she quite embodied Anna Nicole. And that’s not really an attack on her.”