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The scope of both film and memoir were compromised by the facts that Hilary didn't maintain continuous contact with Jacqueline after childhood, and that Jacqueline chose to surround herself with friends rather than siblings as death approached.

Writing in the ' The Guardian ', however, Hilary defended the film's depiction of events and her sister's personality, arguing that it accurately portrayed her darker side, the " MS side "; and in The New Yorker she argued that detractors simply " want to look only at the pieces of Jackie's life they ready to accept ".

According to Hilary, " he ravages of MS changed Jackie's personality.

The Jackie I knew and loved died years before her actual death in 1987, but to be truthful I had to show the MS side of her ", thus directly contradicting the testimony of others such as Christopher Nupen, who hold that Jacqueline's struggle with multiple sclerosis was more complex, with long periods of sustained normality even to the very end.