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13 Reasons Why: Kirstie Alley says parents should not allow children to watch ‘f***ed up’ Netflix hit

Alley took issue with a scene in which a character is sodomised with a broom handle

Adam White
Wednesday 17 June 2020 04:06 EDT
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Cheers actor Kirstie Alley has compared 13 Reasons Why to Caligula, and urged parents to stop their children watching it.

Alley, who also starred in the Look Who’s Talking movies and Drop Dead Gorgeous, said the series was too “f***ed up”, joining a chorus of voices condemning the controversial Netflix hit.

“Don’t let your kids watch 13 Reasons Why,” Alley tweeted. “DARK so DARK and such an onslaught of the most non stop f***ed upness to come down the high school pike since Caligula was 16.”

She added that the show was only suitable for “people over 40 or 70”.

After earning backlash for her tweet, Alley defended herself, arguing that it was okay to disagree with her.

“When you have kids and they’re 14 or 15 hit me back if you want them to watch a boy anally raped with a broomstick after having his head bashed in,” she wrote.

Alley then joked: “13 reasons why ‘13 Reasons Why’ is for an adult audience and IN MY OPINION damaging to teenagers. You needn’t agree.”

13 Reasons Why, which originally revolved around a teenage girl’s suicide and the 13 audio tapes she left behind for friends and family, has been controversial since its inception.

Netflix chose to delete a three-minute suicide scene two years after it first became available on the platform, following backlash from schools and mental health charities.

Its most recent season, which launched in early June, also came under fire for a storyline in which a former teenage sex worker and heroin addict contracts AIDS and dies.

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