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Courtney Stodden hits “Blonde” for disrespecting Marilyn Monroe
Courtney Stodden joins a growing chorus of Marilyn Monroe fans who criticize “Blonde” for portraying the beloved Hollywood icon.
“I won’t watch,” the 28-year-old singer “Boy Destroyer” – who identifies himself as non-binary and uses their / her pronouns – only said to Page Six at the Thursday premiere of “Drag: The Musical” in Los Angeles.
“As someone who understands what it’s like to be sexually abused and then people make a joke of you when you’re not a joke,” they continued, “I think plunging into it is a bit disrespectful.”
Andrew Dominik’s film – starring Ana de Armas as Monroe – climbed to the top of the Netflix movie list after its Wednesday premiere.
But the drama of NC-17 has sparked outrage among viewers who think its show is “cruel” and steeped in misogyny.
“With all the humiliation and horrors Marilyn Monroe has endured in her 36 years, it is a relief that she did not have to suffer the profanity of Blonde, the latest entertainment for necrophiles, to take advantage of it,” New York Times film critic Manohl Dargis he got angry in his review.
“The Blonde” is based on Joyce Oates Carol’s novel of the same name, a fictional take on Monroe’s life and a series of tragedies she experienced – including childhood abuse and sexual assault – before her premature death on August 4, 1962, at age 36.
“I would urge people not to watch the movie because it’s not Marilyn Monroe, it’s not her story. It’s fictionalized and is meant to make her something she wasn’t, ”said Stodden Page Six.
“She never wanted to be the girl they paint her for. Please, please don’t watch this.
Referring to Cary Crocker’s 2007 call to end public criticism of Britney Spears, acolyte Monroe added: “As she said, “Leave Britney alone!” – now it’s time to say, “Leave Marilyn alone!”
There is particular outrage over the scene in “Blonde” which some see as “anti-abortion.”
Steph Herold, abortion researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, tweeted“It shows Marilyn being forced to have a first abortion, screaming on the table that she has changed her mind, then hallucinating when she finds a crying baby in her family home that is engulfed in flames.”
The herald claimed that “The Blonde” was “so anti-abortion, so sexist” and “so exploitative”. Justin Chang, film critic of the Los Angeles Times, agreed: writing in your review“The movie isn’t really about Marilyn Monroe. The point is, make her suffer.
Stodden believes the entertainment industry is “still using” Monroe beyond “Blonde” – even Kim Kardashian, who wore the “Happy Birthday, Mr. President ”at the Met Gala in May.
“Parts of her body are strewn, dresses are being worn,” they said. “And I just feel very sorry for her.”
Stodden has long adored Monroe, paying tribute to her in photo shoots, tattooing her face on her ankle, and frequently visiting the actress’s grave in Westwood. (“You are in my heart and in my nature” they wrote in a letter left at the Monroe Monument in 2016.)
“The Marilyn Monroe fan club invites me to her monument every year. It’s always emotional, ”Stodden said, noting that during their visits they feel the spirit of Monroe’s ex-husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
“Honestly, I feel the spirit of Joe DiMaggio there more than the spirit of Marilyn because Joe put her favorite flowers on her grave for years and he was the one who laid her entire funeral. So I definitely can feel it there.
When asked if there was ever an interest in contacting Monroe through a medium, Stodden kindly closed the idea.
“Going back to the exploitation and disregard of the dead – and Marilyn in particular – I would never have done that,” they said. “More than anything, Marilyn Monroe truly deserves peace.”
Even so, Stodden feels “very attached” to Monroe because they too have maintained their fair share of the research. The alum “Celebrity Big Brother UK” became a fixture in the tabloids in 2011 at the age of 16 when they married Doug Hutchison’s ex-husband, a man 34 years their senior.
At the time of the wedding, the native of Tacoma, Washington, was mercilessly embarrassed by the public, the press, and even celebrities like Chrissy Teigen and Jason Biggs.
In 2020, a marriage that Stodden thought was “offensive” and seemed to be a “conservatory” was legally dissolved.
Stodden – who is now engaged to entrepreneur Chris Sheng – admitted to Page Six: “I’ve been through a lot.”