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‘The Staircase’s’ Michael Peterson Slams Series as ‘Homophobic,’ Calls Colin Firth ‘Not My Favorite Actor’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Addie Morfoot ContributorMichael Peterson has spent the last 20 years explaining the death of his wife Kathleen. First, he stood trial for allegedly murdering her, and was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to life.

He was released pending a new trial in 2011, and in 2017 pleaded guilty to manslaughter in an Alford plea.After being released from prison, he largely kept a lower profile, mainly talking about his life in relation to the investigation and trial as it was presented in the 2004 documentary “The Staircase,” which he participated in with his four children — Clayton and Todd Peterson and Margaret and Martha Ratliff. (He also had a 13-year relationship with one of the editors of the doc; they broke up shortly after he was released from jail.) But Peterson’s quiet period appears to have ended.

Of late, after being back in the news because HBO Max has semi-fictionalized his family tragedy into a limited series called “The Staircase,” he’s been using his new megaphone freely, first to Variety last week, in which he addressed what he called “egregious fabrications” in the show — which Peterson notes was made without his cooperation.If you haven’t been following the case, the details are out of a mystery novel.

On December 9, 2001, according to Peterson, he was having a glass of wine with his wife by the pool of his home in Durham, North Carolina after watching a Blockbuster rental, “America’s Sweethearts,” together.

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