The Karen Carpenter Story
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Sep 23, 2026
Charlie CrawfordHOST
It is a perfect story because it gives an enormously complicated illness a single villain and a single sentence.
Charlie CrawfordHOST
It was so effective that the incident appeared in the 1989 television movie The Karen Carpenter Story, where the fictional review becomes a dramatic turning point.
Charlie CrawfordHOST
There is only one problem: It never happened.
Charlie CrawfordHOST
After the movie aired, Billboard itself published an editorial titled TV Writers Faked Review.