The convicted fraudster and “Dancing With the Stars” alum said she saw bits of the Netflix show but “it was not a comfortable experience.”

Fake heiress Anna Delvey still won’t watch Julia Garner play her in Inventing Anna: ‘I just found it insufferable’

The convicted fraudster and "Dancing With the Stars" alum said she saw bits of the Netflix show but "it was not a comfortable experience."

By Wesley Stenzel

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Anna Delvey in New York in 2022; Julia garner in 'Inventing Anna'. Credit:

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- Anna Delvey said in a new interview that she still hasn't seen *Inventing Anna*, the Netflix series based on her life.

- "I just found it insufferable," the convicted scammer explained. "I thought it was very hard."

- Delvey also opined, "I don't think my accent is this over-exaggerated."

Anna Delvey still hasn't gotten around to watching *Inventing Anna*, and it doesn't sound like she's in any hurry.

The former *Dancing With the Stars* contestant and convicted scammer recently said she has no interest in watching Julia Garner play her in the 2022 Netflix series dramatizing her life story.

"I still have not watched it," Delvey said in an interview with Mariana van Zeller on her podcast *The Hidden Third*. "I watched the clips that were out there that are unavoidable, but no. I never watched it. I just found it insufferable. I thought it was very hard. I started, I think, and it was not a comfortable experience. And I never had a reason to."

Anna Delvey in New York in 2025.

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Delvey (a.k.a. Anna Sorokin) said she initially missed out on watching the show because she was in the midst of her time in jail.

"I find it insufferable to watch myself, so I don't see the reason why I would do that to myself. And when the series came out, I was in jail, so I didn't have the option to watch it," she said. "When I got out, I was just so busy, and it was like half a year later. I'm like, 'Why would I do this?'"

Garner received an Emmy nomination for her turn as Delvey, but the real-life fake heiress said she couldn't evaluate the quality of the performance. "I don't think my accent is this over-exaggerated," she said. "It's not up to me to judge. I'm obviously biased. It is what it is, I can't change it. It's out there."

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When van Zeller asked if the show was accurate in its depiction of Delvey's childhood, like showing her making collages of her favorite fashion designs, the *DWTS* alum said she remembered nothing of the sort in her actual upbringing.

"I was not much of a collager," she said. "We had internet and computer. I had digital albums."

Delvey also said Netflix paid a hefty sum for the rights to adapt her story, though the money she received from the project came in waves as the show moved through various points of development.**

Julia Garner at the 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' premiere in Los Angeles.

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"They paid me, yeah," Delvey explained. It was about [$320,000], I think. I guess it was never certain it was going to happen. I guess at first they optioned it for a year, and then it actually got produced. It was never like, 'Oh, here's all this money, bye.' It was always in stages, and it was always a possibility, like, it's not going to happen or it's not going to come out."**

Delvey was convicted of attempted grand larceny, second-degree larceny, and theft of services in April 2019. She was sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison, and released on parole in February 2021, after 19 months.

Six weeks later, Delvey was taken into custody by ICE for allegedly staying past her visa. She was jailed until October 2022, when she was released on bail but required to remain under house arrest in New York City. Her house arrest was extended to a 75-mile radius in August 2024, which allowed her to compete on *DWTS*.

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