Yet another veteran of it Buffy the Vampire Slayer has publicly supported Charisma Carpenter following her allegations yesterday of abuse and “misconduct” by Joss Whedon over the supernatural series.
Like Carpenter herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michelle Trachtenberg and Amber Benson, Eliza Dushku took to social media today to say to her co-star, “I admire, respect and love you.” Her Instagram post features the actress who played Faith Buffy And his Angel spin-off said she found Carpenter’s story about Whedon’s ‘casually cruel’ behavior ‘powerful and painful’, and painted a picture that together we will never see or know ”- as you can see below.
CAA and other representatives for Avengers Director Whedon has said nothing about the claims made by both Carpenter and Trachtenberg, made by the Buffy maker to her when she was a “teenager” on the 1998-2003 running series.
Unlike her co-stars, the ICM partners Dushku had a post-Buffy professional relationship with Whedon on the chilling Dollhouse, which ran on Fox for two seasons from 2009.
Although she had not mentioned any wrongdoing by Whedon herself, Dushku went through allegations of sexual abuse True lies stunt coordinator Joel Krammer in 1994, when the actress was 12 years old. Accused of similar inappropriateness by others, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s former stunt double denied Dushku’s 2018 allegations. Later that year, after Les Moonves booted up from his CBS bass, it was revealed that Dushku had secretly paid $ 9.5 million over claims she was retaliated against and written off Taurus for complaining about sexual harassment by Michael Weatherly on the set of the prime time drama.