Brooke Warne says she has struggled with her mental health over Channel Nine’s ‘disrespectful’ unauthorized biopic about her late father Shane
Brooke Warne announced Monday that she is struggling with her mental health after Channel Nine announced it would be producing a biopic about her late father Shane.
The 25-year-old attended a charity gala in Melbourne on Sunday to raise awareness of both mental health support and suicide prevention.
Speaking to the Herald Sun at the event, Brooke said her involvement with the charity helped her cope with Nine’s decision to make a TV movie about her father against her family’s wishes.
Brooke Warne, 25, revealed Monday that she is struggling with her mental health after Channel Nine announced it would be producing a biopic about her late father Shane. (Pictured together just before his death in March)
“With the additional media scrutiny that my father’s death has brought, I have to stay alert to deal with the attention,” she explained.
“Especially with the negative side, like the total disrespect that Channel Nine showed when he did a biopic of dad so soon after his death,” she added.
It follows that Brooke called Nine’s announcement that they would be producing a telefilm based on her father just months after his death “beyond disrespectful”.
Brooke attended a charity gala in Melbourne on Sunday to raise awareness of both mental health support and suicide prevention. “With the additional media scrutiny that my father’s death has brought, I have to stay alert to deal with the attention,” she explained
It follows that Brooke criticized Nine’s announcement that they would be producing a telefilm based on her father just months after his death as “beyond disrespectful”.
Writing on her Instagram Story last month, Brooke asked the network’s bosses, “Do any of you guys have any respect for Dad? Or his family?’
Writing on her Instagram Story last month, Brooke asked the network’s bosses, “Do any of you guys have any respect for Dad? Or his family?’.
“He has done so much for Channel 9 and now you want to dramatize his life and the life of our family 6 months after his death?” she continued.
Following backlash from the Warne family, Nine entered “crisis” talks over the telemovie.
Following backlash from the Warne family, Nine entered “crisis” talks over the telemovie
The Australian sports icon (pictured December 2006) died of a heart attack while on holiday with friends on the Thai island of Koh Samui on March 4
Warne’s former manager James Erskine met with the network’s television director Michael Healy and head of drama Andy Ryan on behalf of the family on Thursday, The Herald Sun reported.
Shane Warne died on March 4, the first day of a Thai holiday on the island of Koh Samui, after suffering a heart attack at his luxury villa aged just 52.
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Shane and his ex-wife Simone (pictured together in 2010) had three children together, Brooke, Jackson, 23, and Summer, 20