Anna Delvey/Sorokin, the inspiration for the titular character of the hit Netflix Shondaland show "Inventing Anna," sat down to watch the show ā and she hasĀ thoughts.
āI think Iām more self-aware of the way I come across, not all of the time, but I just donāt think that Iām so brazen and shameless,ā Sorokin told CosmopolitanĀ reporter Emily Palmer, who has also covered Sorokin's financial crimes for the New York Times since 2019.
Palmer andĀ SorokinĀ set up a time to screen the show together over video chat,Ā according to CosmopolitanĀ ā and Palmer was able to get live reactions from Sorokin while watching the episodes.
"I personally moved on a very long time ago," Sorokin told Palmer. "I'm absolutely not in the same place, but I'm also being affected by the way the world is seeing me, and what people think of me."
The show has inspired lots of media reactions, including a "Saturday Night Live" sketch with Chloe Fineman impersonating an Anna Delvey-esque version of herself titled, "Inventing Chloe."
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In May 2018, Jessica Pressler, a New York magazine journalist, turned Sorokin's tale into a story for the magazine ā which, in turn, inspired Shonda Rhimes to create a (slightly fabricated) show about her life and crimes.
Since the release of the show, audiences are doubly fascinated by her tale and how the real Anna compares toĀ Julia Garner's realistic representationĀ of her in the show.
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Sorokin is now released on parole after spending four years in prison for scamming hotels, banks and her friends out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
After six weeks of parole, she wasĀ taken into federal custodyĀ for overstaying her visa. Now, she is still in Immigration and Customs EnforcementĀ (ICE) detention at Orange County Correctional Facility in NY, where she is fighting deportation from Germany.
When Sorokin watched the show with Palmer, she said that in some aspects, she has moved on from this story, and in some other ways, she has not.Ā
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