Charisma Carpenter is implicating director Joss Whedon of on-set misbehavior, stating that he “abused his power” while dealing with her on his hit programs Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
The filmmaker, likewise understood for his deal with movies The Avengers and Justice League, has actually not discussed the starlet’ remarks, which she published on Instagram on Wednesday, Feb. 10. Carpenter, 50, played Cordelia Chase on Buffy in between its 1997 launching and 1999, after which she moved onto a more popular function on the spinoff Angel, which ended its five-season run in 2004.
“Joss Whedon abused his power on many events while interacting on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” the starlet composed. “While he found his misconduct amusing, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me and alienate me from my peers. 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.”
In her post, Charisma stated Whedon, 56, body-shamed her while she was pregnant, asked her if she intended on keeping her infant, and fired her after she delivered.
The starlet implicated the series developer of making “ongoing, passive-aggressive threats to fire” her and stated he called her “fat” to “colleagues when I was 4 months pregnant.” Carpenter’s character slipped into a coma in season 4 of Angel. Cordelia was exterminated in the 5th and last season of the program, which premiered in October 2003, numerous months after the starlet brought to life her and then-husband’s Damian Hardy‘s very first kid, kid Donovan.
