14 DAY TRIAL // This week, Lifetime is airing the unauthorized Brittany Murphy biopic with Amanda Fuller as lead and Sheryl Fenn, from “Twin Peaks,” playing the mother, Sharon. Murphy’s real-life father, Angelo Bertolotti, seems to have taken his feud with Lifetime to social media because he’s been accused of cyber bullying the actress over her involvement in the film.
From the footage released so far, there’s no denying that the movie does look very bad and very cheap, which makes sense if you consider it was shot over 16 days on a minuscule budget. However, it is being sold as an authorized story when no member of Brittany’s family signed off on it, including Bertolotti.
He initially threatened to sue Lifetime for making this film, a threat he repeated a couple of days ago when he publicly professed himself “disgusted” and outraged with what he’d seen so far.
In between that moment and now, he’s been waging a very bitter and nasty war of words on Twitter, mostly by reposting nasty things other people say about Fuller, among them, how she’s “too fat” for the role of Brittany and how she got the part not due to her skills in front of the camera but in between the sheets.
Several media outlets accused Bertolotti of cyber bullying the actress after she confirmed she received very nasty comments from him personally on social media, for which reason she had him blocked. It wasn’t her he was supposed to be fighting with if he had a problem with the film, voices said.
Oh but she was, Bertolotti says in a statement to The Wrap, because she started this nasty feud by mocking the late Brittany on Twitter.
“Amanda Fuller attacked my daughter, Brittany Murphy, as well as myself and our relationship, which she knows nothing about,” he says.
“She did that in response to one single tweet, where I called her being cast in this film ‘a disgrace.’ I stand by that opinion After Amanda Fuller attacked my one Tweet in a long article, I made several other comments about the film. Those are my opinions. I'm entitled to express them. That's not ‘bullying.’ I've also re-tweeted fans, which I've done for years. Everyone knows that re-tweets don't equal endorsement,” Bertolotti continues.
He claims that Fuller said Brittany deserved to die because she was a junkie and that he, Bertolotti, has no reason to say anything right now because he and his daughter had not been in contact since she was a kid of only 2 years old.
In response, he’s telling her to shut up and not get mixed in stuff she knows nothing about.
Whether Lifetime was aiming for this kind of controversy before it aired “The Brittany Murphy Story” we might never know, but the bottom line is that, now that its air date is drawing near, everybody and their mother are talking about the film. Check out the footage below and let us know in the comments section if you plan on tuning in for it.
Inside look: The #BrittanyMurphy Story as she gets ready on the set of #Clueless. Premieres this Saturday at 8/7c. https://t.co/CL5irReZPh
— Lifetime (@lifetimetv) September 2, 2014