Learn more about actress and ‘Buffy’ alum Charisma Carpenter.
On February 10, actress Charisma Carpenter issued a statement on social media where she shared her “truth” about working with Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon. The actress alleged that the filmmaker “abused his power on numerous occasions” when she starred on Buffy and the subsequent spin-off series, Angel. HollywoodLife reached out to Joss Whedon’s rep for a statement, but have not immediately heard back. HollywoodLife did speak to Charisma’s rep for further clarification, and they confirmed her statement on social media, saying, “It’s her truth.” Read her statement in full below and learn more about the actress with these five facts. Charisma took to Twitter and Instagram on February 10 with a lengthy post, alleging that the sets for Buffy and Angel were “toxic work environments.” “For nearly two decades, I have held my tongue,” she began, “and even made excuses for certain events that traumatize me to this day.” She gave several accounts of the creator and director’s alleged “abuse of power,” including her description of what went down when she was pregnant on her last season of Angel. “Joss intentionally refused multiple calls form my agents making it impossible to connect with him to tell him the news that I was pregnant,” she asserted. “Finally, once Joss was apprised of the situation, he requested a meeting with me. In that closed-door meeting, he asked me if I was ‘going to keep it’ and manipulatively weaponized my womanhood and faith against me.
