Overview
- Larry Birkhead, in an Entertainment Tonight interview published July 9, said he and his family do not condone the film Trust Me, I’m a Doctor and object to their lives being dramatized.
- Birkhead has filed a complaint with the California Medical Board over Dr. Sandeep Kapoor’s participation and said he previously confronted Kapoor about publicizing the case.
- The movie is adapted from Kapoor’s 2017 memoir and is scheduled for theatrical release on October 16, with Abbie Cornish cast as Anna Nicole Smith and Kal Penn as Kapoor.
- Birkhead said the project causes emotional distress for his 19-year-old daughter Dannielynn and criticized Cornish’s fit for the role while stressing his duty to protect their child.
- The dispute follows Kapoor’s high-profile 2010 acquittal on charges tied to Smith’s death and comes after several past dramatizations and a 2023 Netflix documentary that Birkhead also declined to join, raising ethical questions about doctors recounting patients and families’ control over posthumous portrayals.