Speaking on This Morning, Michael Peterson, from North Carolina, said the director would 'never have allowed' editor Sophie Burnett to skew the Netflix documentary The Staircase in his favour.
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"Peterson was the subject of a 2018, 13-part Netflix documentary, also called The Staircase, filmed across 16 years. However, it emerged in 2018 that he had engaged in a 15-year relationship with one of the series' editors, Sophie Burnett.
But speaking on This Morning today, Peterson said the documentary, which provided footage that helped to overturn his murder conviction, was not influenced by his relationship with Sophie."
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This Morning host Phil Schofield said: 'Some would say that if you are dating the editor of the documentary that there's a fair chance that she's going to go easy on you, especially if she thinks you might be innocent.'
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Host Holly Willoughby suggested: 'She may have been falling for you while watching that?'
He replied: 'Well that I wouldn't know. That I don't know... I would ask her "Why? Oh my God, you're married. You have a wonderful career. You have a child. Why are you coming to see me?".
'And part of it was [her saying] "I knew you were innocent from all of that".'
He went on: 'But to suggest that she had skewered the documentary to make it look that way, no, she didn't do that.