PREMIERE....Joseph
at the world premiere of 'The Dark Knight Rises' at the AMC Lincoln Square
Theater in New York.
JOSEPH Gordon-Levitt has
criticised GQ magazine for saying in a cover story that his brother died of
"an alleged drug overdose".
"A photographer and
fire spinner who went by the moniker Burning Dan, the elder Gordon-Levitt died
of an alleged drug overdose in 2010," author Amy Wallace wrote. "'It
was an accident' is all Joe will say about that."
But Joseph took issue with
the characterisation of his brother's death in a posting on his Tumblr account
Tuesday.
"Using the word
'alleged' technically allows the writer to say whatever she wants," he
wrote. "The 'allegations' to which she must be referring were made by a
handful of gossip websites. They are factually incorrect according to the
coroner's office and the police department. I don't like publicly speaking
about my brother's death, but I'm making an exception to correct this
irresponsible claim."
Although he thanked the
magazine for putting him on its cover, he said the reporting about his
brother's death made him feel "terrible". It was not, he said, the
way that he had presented his relationship with his brother to Wallace.
"By the way, while I
asked the writer not to dwell on how he died, I did say quite a bit about how
he lived and how much he means to me," Joseph wrote.
"Dan was a brightly
positive, genuinely caring and brilliantly inspiring person, and I liked the
idea of such a wide readership learning about him. My parents and I are
disappointed with what the article chose to focus on regarding this sensitive
subject."
In addition to his
photography and fire-spinning, Dan partnered with Joseph on the multimedia
website HitRECord.org, a community where artists and filmmakers post their work
and are connected with potential commercial productions. (Reuters/TheWrap)
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