"I was really just as shocked as everybody. "I really never imagined Sarah saying anything," Carpenter says now. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. "I stand with all survivors of abuse and am proud of them for speaking out." "I don't want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon," the actress wrote on Instagram. To her surprise and gratitude, many came forward to support her, including Amber Benson, Michelle Trachtenberg and Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar. When was let go from the Cyborg role, that was it."Īt the time, Carpenter didn't alert her former Buffy and Angel co-stars that she was going public with her experiences, and didn't have any idea how they'd react. "When I saw twenty years later that the same person was doing the same things. "It’s easier to advocate for other people than for yourself, and I knew certainly twenty years ago that wasn't an option," Carpenter tells Rosenbaum. That investigation ultimately ended with Whedon leaving his HBO series, The Nevers, and Fisher being written out of the upcoming Flash movie, starring his Justice League teammate Ezra Miller. The actor, who played Cyborg in the Justice League film that Whedon completed after Zack Snyder parted ways with the production, called the director's behavior "gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable," in a July 2020 Twitter post that launched an internal investigation at Warner Bros.
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Ultimately, it was her friendship with Fisher - whom she met at a convention - that convinced her to share her story. "I go to these conventions where people walk with T-shirts on their back saying 'Joss Whedon is my God.' I was really afraid of insulting them, offending them, alienating them."
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"I was really putting myself in a position to alienate my fandom by speaking out," Carpenter continues. August Richards, Charisma Carpenter, James Marsters, Amy Acker, and Alexis Denisof, reunited at the 2019 New York Comic Con (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for ReedPOP ) "įrom left to right: The cast of 'Angel,' J. I really said everything I could have possibly wanted to say on the subject. I worked so hard editing it, crafting it, saying this, not saying that, what do I want to say and what instances I chose to. It took me two weeks to write that letter. I'm sure in some cases that has happened, so it's fair. It's disappointing to hear that's where the head goes. are cynical of that kind of stuff," Carpenter adds about her choice to stand with Ray Fisher, the Justice League star who was the first to speak out about Whedon last summer.
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Appearing on the actor's podcast, Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum, Carpenter says that she has declined multiple interview requests with outlets like the Today show and The View to avoid giving the impression of being on a "publicity tour to air my grievances." But the former Buffy and Angel star revisits the subject in a new interview with fellow veteran of The WB, Smallville's Michael Rosenbaum. Since publishing a powerful statement outlining Joss Whedon's alleged "toxic" behavior on her social media channels in February, Charisma Carpenter has largely allowed that letter to speak for itself.