Posted on 02/10/2021 12:43:22 PM PST by EdnaMode
Charisma Carpenter on Wednesday posted a lengthy message on social media in which she accused Joss Whedon of "hostile and toxic" behavior on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff, Angel.
"For nearly two decades, I have held my tongue and even made excuses for certain events that traumatize me to this day," she began.
"Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working together on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel," she wrote of the show creator. "The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer. It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively."
Whedon had no comment as of press time.
Carpenter claimed Whedon found his alleged misconduct "amusing," claiming he was particularly cruel to her while she was pregnant, even calling her "fat" in front of cast and crew.
"He was mean and biting, disparaging about others openly, and often played favorites," she wrote. When Whedon found out she was pregnant, she says, he asked the actress if she was "going to keep it" and "manipulatively weaponized my womanhood and faith against me," Carpenter alleged.
Speaking about her pregnancy and stress, Carpenter wrote that all her joy was "sucked right out," adding, “I made excuses for his behavior and repressed my own pain.”
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LOL! I wondered about that too!
Whedon is a talented man; he worked on Toy Story. Also Firefly, Serendipity, and other things that I don’t know about. LOL
It took her 20 years to speak out when she was sure work permanently dried up.
That’s how Hollyweird rolls. They would have blackballed her years ago if she said one bad word about one of their golden tickets.
That’s the vermin they are.
SMG has started some sort of cooking company and written a cookbook; I have it. I think she’s really into taking care of her family.
And yet, she cashed the checks and embraced the stardom.
“I’m a huge Buffy fan ...”
Same here. I went so far as to purchase the ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ box sets many years ago. Still very entertaining.
Damn I love me some #MeToo.
Well, that is very true.
You won’t get work if you say anything bad about the people in power.
Well, the "Buffy" who was in the movie version was blonde. I think the "joke" is that the savior of the world (The Slayer) is a ditzy, blonde Valley Girl.
Another reason he might have gone for the "blonde" would be that Sarah Michelle Geller is a much better actress than Charisma Carpenter.
Although, I will say that Charisma Carpenter did a lot with that character and was very entertaining. I sometimes think she really got the best one-liners.
I have them too!
David Boreanaz once said, while talking about the Angel vs. Spike debate, something like “The first love is always the best love.”
The man has been married a couple of times and I just wonder what his current girlfriend or wife thinks about that. LOL!
Ditto.
Wow, you say there are mean bosses out there? They even yell at you sometimes? Who’d have thunk it?
“David Boreanaz”
Good actor. Watched him on the ‘Bones’ series.
You’re right. SMG is really good. She’d been acting since she was a teenager.
And CC did get some funny lines. “I hate to interrupt your downward mobility...” (ep one, season one).
Isn’t that a photo of Kristy Swanson, the very first ‘Buffy’?
The ratio of Leftists to Conservatives that have been fired, careers ruined, or just plain sweet harassment, is approaching 20:1.
There's been nothing like it before or since. Glenn Thrush article someone posted earlier about Cruz? The #MSM won't remotely incorporate it into today's Narrative, because Thrush's #MeToo moment suspended him not-that-briefly from the NYT and no one will cable him since.
Was there no one more nauseating than Garrison Keillor? 4 years after his #MeToo moment, you might as well say "Garrison Who"?
How about MorningMika Libtard douchebag Mark #MeToo Halperin so desperate for work he's now on Newsmax! SCHADENFREUDE!
And the sustaining power of #MeToo into its 5th year is nothing less than amazing, because as the article suggests, #MeToo simply missed Whedon the first time around.
“What is your childhood trauma?”
FYI, Kristy has been a consistent conservative voice on Twitter.
The only vampire slayer named “Buffy” is Christie Swenson.
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