Vili Fualaau 'Offended' By Netflix's Version Of Mary Kay Letourneau Relationship In May December!
05.01.2024 - 00:40
/ perezhilton.com
May December may be shaping up to be an awards season favorite, but not everyone is a fan… One of the very real individuals the film’s fictional story was loosely based on hated it.
If you haven’t seen the Netflix powerhouse, it stars Natalie Portman as an actress researching the role of Julianne Moore’s Gracie Atherton-Yoo. In the film, Gracie’s relationship with Charles Melton’s Joe Yoo was the subject of a media storm in the ’90s. She began having sex with the boy when he was just 13 years old, and she was 36! After getting caught, she goes to prison — where she has his child! The film finds them 20 years on, after they got married and are raising three kids together.
If this is ringing a bell at all, it’s because it’s loosely based on the real-life case of Mary Kay Letourneau — the Seattle woman who at 34 years old, sexually victimized 12-year-old Vili Fualaau. Like the movie depicts, the two went on to get married and welcome children together — two daughters. But not before Mary Kay pleaded guilty to to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child in 1997 and spent six months in prison.
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Mary Kay died of cancer in 2020 — three years after the two separated in 2017. But still, he was by her side when she passed. Vili went on to welcome a third child in a new relationship, and his youngest daughter with Mary Kay is now pregnant. So the story goes on…
Vili is still very much alive to see the film inspired by his story. And he’s not a fan of how it turned out!
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter published on Thursday, Vili, now 40 and still living in Seattle, opened up his experience (or lack thereof) with the film’s