There are sweeping shots of the modest new house where Stubblefield was forced to move after her release and where she now lives under a new name. The resulting Sky documentary, Tell Them You Love Me, with Louis Theroux as its executive producer, features extensive interviews with Stubblefield, and with Daisy and John, filmed over a six year period. Eventually, after talking on email for about 18 months, I was invited into their home for the first time.” But I was transparent I would also be talking to Anna. There is no contract that is going to take the place of that – you can have her sign 43 different papers but if she doesn’t want to film she’s not going to do it. “She makes all her decisions in her heart and her gut. “Daisy works on intuition and looks you in the eye,” he says. Daisy Johnson, Derrick’s mother, and his elder brother John, were more guarded and took longer to persuade. I don’t think I’ve ever jumped on something that fast in my life.” Stubblefield agreed straight away, although filming didn’t begin until her sentence was overturned. I instinctively felt the story needed more than a court case. “Anna was still in the county jail awaiting sentencing at that point. He had followed the trial with interest, and immediately wrote to Stubblefield and Derrick’s family requesting interviews. It was a question the documentary maker Nick August-Perna found himself asking, too. Newspaper headlines asked the question: “who is the victim in the Anna Stubblefield case”? Yet many of those who had followed the case were unsure what to think. She is not able to contact Derrick ever again. She was found guilty of sexual assault and sentenced to 12 years in prison following an appeal she was released in 2018 and placed on the sex offenders register for life. Johnson had been happy with everything that was going on. She and Johnson were in a loving relationship and planned to set up house together, she said.
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