Julia Garner and Anna Delvey.Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix; TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty
Sorokin, now 31, resides behind bars as she awaits a decision on whether she will be deported to Germany, where she’s a citizen.
“While the world is ponderingJulia Garner’s take on my accent inInventing Anna, a Netflix show about me, the real me sits in a cell in Orange County’s jail in upstate New York, in quarantine isolation,” she wrote on Insider.com.
Sorokin claimed that overstaying her visa was “unintentional” and “largely out of my control,” and asserted that she followed all of New York state’s and ICE’s parole rules.
Still, Sorokin said an immigration judge ruled that if she was freed from detention right now and required to report to ICE regularly, she “would have the ability and inclination to continue to commit fraudulent and dishonest acts,” according to the Insider essay.
“So no — it doesn’t look like I’ll be watchingInventing Annaanytime soon,” she wrote. “Even if I were to pull some strings and make it happen, nothing about seeing a fictionalized version of myself in this criminal-insane-asylum setting sounds appealing to me.”
Sorokin was at least partially in the loop on the making ofInventing Anna— Garner evenvisited her in prisonto meet the woman she’d be portraying.
“Nearly four years in the making and hours of phone conversations and visits later, the show is based on my story and told from a journalist’s perspective,” Sorokin wrote.
Julia Garner as Anna Delvey in “Inventing Anna”.Aaron Epstein/Netflix
“And while I’m curious to see how they interpreted all the research and materials provided, I can’t help but feel like an afterthought, the somber irony of being confined to a cell at yet another horrid correctional facility lost between the lines, the history repeating itself.”
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“I just don’t want to be trapped with these people dissecting my character, even though no one ever says anything bad,” she wrote. “If anything, everyone’s really encouraging, but in this cheap way and for all the wrong reasons. Like, they love all the clothes and boats and cash tips.”
The essayends with a series of rhetorical questions about her past and future.
Another: “How many ancient VHS tapes does one have to watch before one’s considered reformed?”
source: people.com
