Linda Fairstein, a former prosecutor who has been the focus of public outrage since Netflix began streaming a series based on the Central Park Five case, has criticized the show in an op-ed as “so full of distortions and falsehoods as to be an outright fabrication.”

Since “When They See Us” began airing on May 31, Ms. Fairstein, who became a successful crime novelist after retiring from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, has faced calls for a boycott of her books, has stepped down from several nonprofit boards and was dropped by her publisher. The four-part series created by Ava DuVernay portrayed Ms. Fairstein, who was played by Felicity Huffman, as pushing for the convictions of the five teenagers despite overt inconsistencies in their confessions, which they said had been coerced.

Ms. Fairstein was running the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney’s office in 1989, when five black and Latino teenagers were arrested in connection with the brutal rape and beating of a white woman who had been jogging in Central Park. Their convictions were vacated in 2002 after a man named Matias Reyes confessed to the crime, an assertion confirmed by DNA evidence. Mr. Reyes said he had acted alone.

“Ms. DuVernay’s film attempts to portray me as an overzealous prosecutor and a bigot, the police as incompetent or worse, and the five suspects as innocent of all charges against them,” Ms. Fairstein wrote in the op-ed, published in The Wall Street Journal in print on Tuesday and online Monday night. “None of this is true.”