{"id":108020,"date":"2025-08-30T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108020\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:53:41","slug":"karen-read-says-amazon-prime-series-was-not-authorized-by-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108020\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Read Says Amazon Prime Series Was “Not Authorized” By Her"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJust two days after it was announced that Prime Video is developing a limited series based on the Karen Read<\/a> trial starring Elizabeth Banks<\/a>, Read spoke out about the project in her first public interview since she was acquitted. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have nothing to do with that; it\u2019s not authorized by me in any way,\u201d Read said during an interview with WRKO host Howie Carr<\/a> on Thursday. Meanwhile, her attorney Alan Jackson said that it is \u201cKaren Read\u2019s story to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBanks will executive produce via her Brownstone Productions, as well as portray Read in the Prime Video potential series<\/a>. Justin Noble will serve as the writer-showrunner, while David E. Kelley is executive producing. The logline states that the series will break down \u201csociety\u2019s obsession with true crime, the allure of conspiracy, and the deepening crisis of trust in our institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead was introduced to the public when she was accused of murdering boyfriend Boston police officer John O\u2019Keefe in 2022. The autopsy revealed that he died from blunt-force trauma and hypothermia. During the trial, prosecutors claimed that Read struck him while backing up her SUV while intoxicated. Meanwhile, the defense argued that Read was framed after he was allegedly injured inside the house.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe case was first looked at during a 2024 trial, which ended in a mistrial. Read was acquitted during her second trial<\/a> by a Massachusetts jury in June 2025. She was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges, though she was found guilty of drunk driving.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring her first interview since the trial concluded, Read admitted she had experienced \u201clittle epiphanies\u201d as she\u2019s slowly readjusted to her normal life.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s moments I have every day that have these little epiphanies of, \u2018Wow, this is the first time I\u2019ve done fill-in-the-blank in the last four years that I wasn\u2019t living with this nightmare,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not quite as I expected. I was expecting a switch to be flipped \u2026 but it\u2019s been more like a dimmer \u2014 the lights are coming on a little brighter each week.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead also took the opportunity to share a message with Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey and state investigators. \u201cYou lost. You lost big time, and you know what you did,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter her life was turned upside down, Read has started fresh by selling her Mansfield, Massachusetts, home and moved in with her parents. She also lost her position at Fidelity Investments, as well as her adjunct professor job at Bentley University.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat job was not just a job \u2014 that was my career, and I still miss it,\u201d she admitted. However, Read said she wasn\u2019t sure that she could \u201chop back on the commuter rail and walk through South Station every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson shared that he and Read \u201cdamn well intend\u201d to use the courts again to share their side of the story. Meanwhile, Read expressed interest in telling her story in a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just two days after it was announced that Prime Video is developing a limited series based on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5318,49,48,361,61446,75,61447],"class_list":{"0":"post-108020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-amazon-prime-video","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-elizabeth-banks","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-karen-read"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}