![]() ![]() Now, unlike many detainees, she is fluent in English and can afford representation. She’s the first to point out that her white privilege opened certain doors during her Delvey days. Hers has often been a story of great exceptions. (A spokesperson for ICE was contacted on February 1 with a list of questions about her detention but didn’t respond by publication.) She fell ill in mid-January and a week later, around her 31st birthday, tested positive and was quarantined. In December, she requested a COVID-19 booster. ![]() She’s yet to receive another-a situation she calls a “comedy of mistakes at best, deliberate negligence/sabotage at worst.” Not wanting to leave New York, Sorokin has appealed her deportation, but her immigration case has been in limbo since November, when a mailed letter from the Board of Immigration Appeals reached her lawyer too late for a response. A judge deemed her “a danger to the community,” due in large part to her press interviews and social media, which repelled remorse. Until her potential deportation to Germany, where her family lives, she’ll likely stay behind bars. “I feel like I’m being tried for the same thing over and over again.” The ICE detention feels harder: “I was given an opportunity to move on, but they took it all away from me,” she said. She’s come to terms with doing time for her eight-count conviction. (The series, out today, marks one year from the date of her initial release.) But an ending is hard to imagine behind bars. She’d hoped the Netflix show, which has been in the works for years, would feel like a cathartic close to the past. Sorokin speaking to journalist Emily Palmer this week. If so, she added with a laugh: “I don’t feel like I could ever be friends with myself.” ![]() “Am I that insufferable?” she recalled thinking the first time she saw her character. “Turns out, most of the time we don’t want to know what people really think of us.”īefore watching a few scenes with me, she had only seen the trailer. It was hard to decipher their true feelings about her from Rhimes-level dramatization. “It’s like lots of people in your life telling you what they think of you, all at the same time,” she explained, noting that many friends and associates consulted on the project. She turned away from the screen depicting disputes with her lawyer, Todd Spodek, with whom she remains close. But talking about the show felt harder, she said. ![]() Sorokin is accustomed to dissecting painful life choices. “It’s weird to watch your own life owned by somebody else.” (Sorokin sold her life rights to the show’s creators for $320,000.) She added: “It’s a good exercise in letting go.” Now, talking through a corrections facility video chat-the background clouded, a single recessed light visible overhead, and the feed blinking out whenever she moves the tablet slightly-she reflects on the Netflix show. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. After fulfilling her minimum sentence last February, she was rearrested on March 25 at the lower Manhattan U.S. She has passed through seven corrections facilities across New York and New Jersey since her 2017 arrest. Julia Garner as Anna Delvey in episode 101 of Inventing Anna. ![]()
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