Dad was no fool or spy.. I guess mental illness doesn't sell
WHEN Julia Stonehouse tuned in to ITV's new drama, she was horrified by what she saw.
Three-part blockbuster Stonehouse - watched by an estimated six million viewers each night this week - is based on the life of her MP father John, who attempted and failed to fake his own death after a mental breakdown in the 1970s.
Julia called the drama a "vicious attack on her family that is "littered with falsehoods" about her father, who was mentally ill and addicted to mind-altering prescription drugs.
Julia, 71, said she had even written to ITV complaining about the show, starring Keeley Hawes and Matthew Macfadyen, before it aired.
She told the Sunday Mirror: "It is emotional abuse to our family.
"It portrayed my father as a communist spy, he wasn't, he was anti-communist. They said he was caught in a honeytrap, he just wasn't.
"My mother, who is 91, has been really worried about it.
"My father was depressed and suicidal from prescription drugs and had had a mental breakdown during the six months before he faked his death but that was hardly addressed.
"They made him look like a hapless fool. But I guess mental illness isn't funny and doesn't sell.
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