{"id":130976,"date":"2021-02-14T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=130976"},"modified":"2021-02-14T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T23:42:37","slug":"former-joss-whedon-associates-back-abuse-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-joss-whedon-associates-back-abuse-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Joss Whedon Associates Back Abuse Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-joss-whedon-associates-back-abuse-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=130976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/JossWhedon.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Following actress Charisma Carpenter publicly alleging that director Joss Whedon regularly engaged in abusive behavior on the set of \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d a number of former Whedon associates have come forward to bolster Carpenter\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy post on social media last week, Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia on \u201cBuffy\u201d and the spinoff show \u201cAngel,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/angel-buffy-actress-charisma-carpenter-accuses-joss-whedon-of-misconduct\">claimed that Whedon<\/a> was \u201cmean and biting\u201d after she became pregnant, calling her fat and putting her through intentionally difficult work hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called me in for a sit-down meeting to interrogate and berate me regarding a rosary tattoo I got to help me feel more spiritually grounded in an increasingly volatile work environment that affected me physically,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoss intentionally refused multiple calls from my agents making it impossible to connect with him to tell him the news that I was pregnant,\u201d she continued. \u201cFinally, once Joss was apprised of the situation, he requested a meeting with me. In that closed-door meeting, he asked if I was \u2018going to keep it\u2019 and manipulatively weaponized my faith and womanhood against me. He proceeded to attack my character, mock my religious beliefs, accuse me of sabotaging the show, and then unceremoniously fired me the following season after I gave birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Charisma Carpenter\u2019s accusations went viral, actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Eliza Dushku all backed her claims. Days later, former \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d showrunner Marti Noxon publicly spoke in support of Whedon\u2019s accusers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to validate what the women of&nbsp;<em>Buffy<\/em>&nbsp;are saying and support them in telling their story. They deserve to be heard,\u201d Noxon&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinoxon\/status\/1360354381812563975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;on Twitter. \u201cI understand where Charisma, Amber, Michelle and all the women who have spoken out are coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I would like to validate what the women of Buffy are saying<br \/>and support them in telling their story. They deserve to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>I understand where <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllCharisma?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AllCharisma<\/a>, Amber, Michelle and all<br \/>the women who have spoken out are coming from.<\/p>\n<p>Kater Gordon and I 1\/2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NOX NOX WHO\u2019S WEARING A MASK? (@martinoxon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinoxon\/status\/1360354381812563975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond the \u201cBuffy\u201d crew, writer Jose Molina, who worked on the fan favorite series \u201cFirefly,\u201d revealed that Whedon would often brag about making female writers cry, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/02\/more-speak-out-against-buffy-producer-joss-whedon-1234693460\/\">describing the director<\/a> as \u201ccasually cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Casually cruel\u2019 is a perfect way of describing Joss. He thought being mean was funny. Making female writers cry during a notes session was especially hysterical. He actually liked to boast about the time he made one writer cry twice in one meeting,\u201d wrote Molina on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Molina was responding to a tweet from former \u201cBuffy\u201d star Amber Benson, who publicly said that the show fostered a \u201ctoxic environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cBuffy was a toxic environment and it starts at the top. [Charisma]<\/span> is speaking truth and I support her 100%. There was a lot of damage done during that time and many of us are still processing it twenty plus years later,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Casually cruel&#8221; is a perfect way of describing Joss. He thought being mean was funny. Making female writers cry during a notes session was especially hysterical. He actually liked to boast about the time he made one writer cry twice in one meeting. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IStandWithCharismaCarpenter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IStandWithCharismaCarpenter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SgPF1rgRby\">https:\/\/t.co\/SgPF1rgRby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jose Molina (@JoseMolinaTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoseMolinaTV\/status\/1360386433769295873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of this writing, no high-level industry professionals have come out in defense of Joss Whedon, who has yet to publicly address the allegations made against him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/buffy-actress-michelle-trachtenberg-there-was-a-rule-joss-whedon-couldnt-be-alone-with-me\">\u2018Buffy\u2019 Actress Michelle Trachtenberg: \u2018There Was A Rule\u2019 Joss Whedon Couldn\u2019t Be Alone With&nbsp;Me<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following actress Charisma Carpenter publicly alleging that director Joss Whedon regularly engaged in abusive behavior on the set of \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d a number of former Whedon associates have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893434,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6599,6728,3702,3692,6257,6258],"class_list":["post-130976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abuse","tag-associates","tag-back","tag-former","tag-joss","tag-whedon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}