Famous former madam Heidi Fleiss doesn’t want to relive her life on the big screen.
Fleiss, who was arrested in the 1990s for running an upscale prostitution ring, reacted to the news that Aubrey Plaza is playing her in the upcoming biopic “The Heidi Fleiss Story.”
Speaking to TMZ on Wednesday, Fleiss stated that while she believes Plaza, 41, is “a great choice to play her,” she won’t watch the film because “the past is dead” to her.
“No one can do what I did,” she told the outlet.
Fleiss, who said she watched Plaza in “The White Lotus” Season 2, added that she wants the team behind the biopic to succeed, but she thinks they have “their work cut out for them.”
She also told TMZ that she’s not involved in the project.
The Post has reached out to Fleiss for comment.
Variety reported that Plaza will star in “The Heidi Fleiss Story” and produce it through her company Evil Hag. It is Plaza’s first major project since her husband Jeff Baena died by suicide at age 47 in January.
Leah Rachel, who created the Netflix horror series “Chambers,” will make her directorial debut with the biopic. Rachel is also co-writing the film with Rachel Sennott and Travis Jackson.
The film, which begins production later this year in Los Angeles, “follows Fleiss before trial, scrambling around Los Angeles trying to blackmail and leverage various connections to get the case dropped, with the help of an aspiring young writer named Jaclyn,” per Variety.
Fleiss was arrested in 1993 for pandering and tax evasion after she was busted for running a prostitution ring in LA, which led to her being dubbed the “Hollywood Madam.”
Her clients were some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, including Charlie Sheen.
She spent 20 months in prison of a seven-year sentence.
Fleiss’ notoriety was such that she became the subject of “Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss,” a 2004 TV movie starring “The Sopranos” star Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
In December, Fleiss told People that she now lives on a ranch in Pahrump, Nevada, and she is dedicated to rescuing caged birds from captivity.
“I lived a life of adventure and excitement, but out of my whole life, the most beautiful thing I ever experienced was watching these birds not only go from solitary confinement but then adjust to freedom,” she shared. “Maybe even find a mate and raise a family.”
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