Skip to main content
Tags: casey anthony | caylee | new details

Casey Anthony Says She's Making a Movie About Her Daughter's Death With New Details

Casey Anthony Says She's Making a Movie About Her Daughter's Death With New Details
In this Feb. 13, 2017 photo, Casey Anthony poses with a photo of her daughter Caylee during an interview in her West Palm Beach, Fla., home. (Joshua Replogle/AP)

By    |   Friday, 31 May 2019 10:46 AM EDT

Casey Anthony, who many see as America's most hated mother, has revealed plans for a biopic based upon her life, her wild partying habits, her daughter Caylee’s death and the controversy surrounding her murder trial acquittal.

"I could care less what people think of me. I just feel my truth needs to be out of me. I need to close the book," she told the Daily Mail. "I am not a monster."

The 33-year-old shot to tabloid infamy in 2008 after being arrested on suspicion of child neglect after her 2-year-old daughter Caylee went missing. The child's skeletal remains were later found in a wooded area near the Anthony family's home. The child was missing for 31 days and Casey never reported it to police.

Prosecutors painted Casey as a cold-blooded killer who murdered her daughter in order to live a single, responsibility-free, party life. She was later indicted on murder charges but acquitted after a six-week trial.  For years after the ordeal she lived a life of seclusion but in 2014 rumors that she had returned to her infamous partying habits emerged, as noted by private investigator Bill Warner.

Now Casey has revealed that her movie is in the works and is expected to be wrapped up by next year.

"Hopefully one day people will find it in their hearts to believe that I could never do this," she told The Daily Mail of the accusations that haunt her. Casey added that the movie would reveal how she was instructed to hide any knowledge that Caylee had been dead for a month despite wanting to report it to the police.

The person who allegedly told her to hide the fact that Caylee was missing is not identified yet for legal reasons.

"My life was in others' hands from beginning to the end," she said. This included her wild partying habits. ''Yes I drank and carried on like nothing happened. The movie is called 'As I Was told' because I'd done what I was told to do. I had to put on a fake persona throughout those 31 days," she said. 

There is no indication that she has any proof for her extraordinary claims.

The movie will begin with Casey discovering she is pregnant with Caylee and will show many flashbacks of her life.

"There will be sex scenes. My character with different men, mainly sexual," she noted. "It will show partying drinking days leading up to my pregnancy. It is all confusing, then the day I conceive... moving forward with that."

The trial will be included in the movie along with details about her partying days that have not been revealed until now.

"Many things that no one has ever heard about will be in this movie. That no-one knows about but myself and some close friends," she said. This includes one night before she was pregnant when she was so drunk that she passed out on her front yard. 

"I woke up to a neighbor's lawnmower," she recalled. "I went around to the water hose and cleared my face, then went inside to my mom saying, 'Good morning, you look like you had a rough night.' I said nothing, went to the shower, where I sat and cried."

After Casey was acquitted, she said she thought she could go back to living a normal life.

"I was planning for my future, I thought after the trial that I would be home free to do as I wanted," she said. "Never knowing or even thinking that people would not care about what the jury's verdict was, they still crucified me after the fact."

© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Sign up for Newsmax’s Daily Newsletter

Receive breaking news and original analysis - sent right to your inbox.

(Optional for Local News)
Privacy: We never share your email address.

TheWire
Casey Anthony, who many see as America's most hated mother, has revealed plans for a biopic based upon her life, her wild partying habits, her daughter Caylee's death and the controversy surrounding her murder trial acquittal.
casey anthony, caylee, new details
605
2019-46-31
Friday, 31 May 2019 10:46 AM
Newsmax Media, Inc.
Join the Newsmax Community
Read and Post Comments
Please review Community Guidelines before posting a comment.
 

Interest-Based Advertising | Do not sell or share my personal information

Newsmax, Moneynews, Newsmax Health, and Independent. American. are registered trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc. Newsmax TV, and Newsmax World are trademarks of Newsmax Media, Inc.

NEWSMAX.COM
America's News Page
© 2025 Newsmax Media, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Download the Newsmax App
NEWSMAX.COM
America's News Page
© 2025 Newsmax Media, Inc.
All Rights Reserved