It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively.” The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer. “Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working together on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. “For nearly two decades, I have held my tongue and even made excuses for certain events that traumatize me to this day,” she said. This past week, in corroboration with Fisher, Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then Angel until her abrupt departure-when Whedon essentially fired her for getting pregnant- revealed to the public via social media that she was subject to Whedon’s “hostile and toxic” treatment on set. Sophia Crawford and Jeff Pruitt, former Buffy stunt workers, were among the first to speak out after Fisher about previous abuses by Whedon.
In 2017, following his divorce from Kai Cole, she wrote an essay for The Wrap in which she accused him of being a “hypocrite preaching feminist ideals.” Cole said she felt Whedon used his relationship with her to protect himself “so no one would question his relationships with other women or scrutinize his writing as anything other than feminist.” Ray Fisher, who played Cyborg in Whedon’s 2017 film Justice League, has alleged several times that Whedon’s behavior on set was abusive. The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Photo credit: 20th Century Fox)įor years, new stories about creator and director Joss Whedon’s abuse of people he’s worked with, specifically women, have been revealed on a near-constant loop.
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