00:00Not to mention the lunacy of an outdoor event in the late summer in the Deep South.
00:04We don't want to have a state dinner.
00:05I think what John means...
00:07I know what he means.
00:08He doesn't want a Kennedy wedding.
00:10Meryl Streep's daughter, Grace Gummer, plays a feisty Caroline Kennedy in Love Story,
00:15John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
00:17The wedding episode is out now, but what's the truth behind the alleged tension
00:22between the bride and the sister of the groom?
00:25Page Six spoke exclusively with John's childhood friend to find out.
00:29Wedding guest Sasha Shurmayev denied any friction on the actual wedding day.
00:34An intimate affair of just 40 guests on a remote island off the coast of Georgia.
00:39She noted everyone was on their best behavior and were just happy for the newlyweds.
00:44As for the long-standing rumors of in-law drama,
00:47she said everyone knew there was some tension between the two couples,
00:51referring to John and Carolyn and Caroline and her husband Edwin Schlossberg,
00:56but that it wasn't really apparent at the wedding.
00:58Despite this, in episode six, Caroline is portrayed as very indifferent,
01:03reading a magazine in the bridal suite and subtly throwing shade,
01:07as the bride stresses over her now iconic wedding dress.
01:10The Narciso Rodriguez gown was valued at a cool $40,000.
01:24Earlier in the episode, it's dramatized why Caroline was picked to be the matron of honor,
01:28supposedly to avoid bitter feelings.
01:31Carolyn says Caroline would resent her for taking her only family left away from her.
01:36The Kennedys are like the Beatles, adding,
01:38I feel like Yoko.
01:40Her wedding to JFK Jr. came two years after he and Caroline lost their mother, Jackie O,
01:45and following a lifetime without their father, President Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
01:52Family friend Sasha Shirmayev recalled that the bridesmaid's duties were mostly handled by the bride's mom,
01:58Anne Messina Freeman, and her sisters, Lisa and Lauren.
02:01Lauren Bessette also died in the 1999 plane crash tragedy.
02:06Caroline actually spent most of the wedding weekend looking after her three little kids,
02:11Rose, Tatiana, who died in December 2025 from cancer,
02:15and Jack Schlossberg, who is now running for Congress.
02:19Shirmayev says she refuses to watch the show about her late friends.
02:24The way I look at it, love story is just being made by a group of people that never met
02:28them,
02:28didn't know them, and are just making it up as they go along.
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