‘The Girl From Plainville’ star Chloe Sevigny: ‘It was tough material’
nypost.comnow streaming, with new episodes out Tuesdays).“I watched [the documentary] ‘I love You, Now Die’ on HBO, and I was so struck by the real Lynn Roy.
I wanted to help be a part of trying to honor her, and her son, and tell their story with sensitivity,” Sevigny, 47, told The Post. “The Girl From Plainville” is based on the real-life story of Michelle Carter (played by Elle Fanning, “The Great”) and her unprecedented 2014 “texting suicide” case in which she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the suicide death of her then-boyfriend, Conrad Roy (Colton Ryan).
In 2015, a Massachusetts judge ruled that Carter’s words (though phone calls and text messages) coerced Roy into killing himself.
She was sentenced to 15 months in prison, which she served from 2019-2020 (she was released in January of 2020, three months early, due to good conduct).
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