Sarah Michelle Gellar is weighing in on the scandal involving Joss Whedon.
“Whereas I’m proud to have my title related to Buffy Summers, I don’t need to be ceaselessly related to the title Joss Whedon,” she wrote on Instagram.
“I’m extra targeted on elevating my household and surviving a pandemic at present, so I can’t be making any additional statements presently. However I stand with all survivors of abuse and am pleased with them for talking out.”
Carpenter went public on Wednesday and stated that Whedon’s “casually merciless” habits included threatening to fireplace her, calling her “fats” when she was 4 months pregnant, asking her if she was going to “preserve” her child, and firing her after she gave start.
The actress appeared within the position of Cordelia on Buffy earlier than shifting over to the spinoff, Angel, the place she co-starred with David Boreanaz.
“Joss Whedon abused his energy on quite a few events whereas engaged on the units of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” Carpenter wrote in her 830-word assertion, which touched on the latest poisonous office allegations Justice League star Ray Fisher leveled in opposition to Whedon.
“Whereas he discovered his misconduct amusing, it solely served to accentuate my efficiency nervousness, disempower me, and alienate me from my friends,” she added.
“The disturbing incidents triggered a continual bodily situation from which I nonetheless endure. It’s with a beating, heavy coronary heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at occasions, destructively.”
“Final summer time, when Ray Fisher publicly accused Joss of abusive and unprofessional habits towards the solid and crew throughout reshoots on the Justice League set in 2017, it gutted me,” Carpenter stated of the accusations in opposition to Whedon that grew to become public information final yr.
“Joss has a historical past of being casually merciless. He has created hostile and poisonous work environments since his early profession. I do know as a result of I skilled it first-hand,” she alleged.
“Repeatedly. Like his ongoing, passive-aggressive threats to fireplace me, which wreaks havoc on a younger actor’s shallowness. And callously calling me ‘fats’ to colleagues after I was 4 months pregnant, weighing 126 lbs. He was imply and biting, disparaging about others brazenly, and infrequently performed favorites, placing folks in opposition to each other to compete and vie for his consideration and approval.”
“He referred to as me in for a sit-down assembly to interrogate and berate me concerning a rosary tattoo I received to assist me really feel extra spiritually grounded in an more and more risky work local weather that affected me bodily,” the actress added.
“Joss deliberately refused a number of calls kind my brokers making it unimaginable to attach with him to inform him the information that I used to be pregnant.”
Amber Benson, who performed Tara on Buffy, addressed Charisma on Twitter and confirmed her help.
She stated:
“Buffy was a poisonous setting and it begins on the prime. @AllCharisma is talking fact and I help her 100%. There was a whole lot of injury executed throughout that point and many people are nonetheless processing it twenty plus years later.”
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