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Ryan Parker
Charisma Carpenter earlier this week revealed that she had been traumatized for years due to the treatment she received from the show’s creative director.
Michelle Trachtenberg has made a new charge against Joss Whedon.
The actress recently updated a statement she released earlier this week on social media, when she supported her colleague Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Charisma Carpenter, who revealed that she was traumatized for years due to the treatment she received from Whedon during the production of the iconic show and its spinoff, Angel.
Trachtenberg, who played Buffy’s younger sister, Dawn Summers, from 2000-03, responded to a post by leader Sarah Michelle Gellar, who also supported Carpenter, saying, “Thanks @sarahmgellar for saying that. I’m brave enough now as a 35 year old woman … To pass it on. Why. It must. Be known. As a teenager. With her inappropriate behavior… a lot.
Since then, Trachtenberg has updated that statement to add that, “There was a rule, saying [Whedon] it is not allowed to be alone with Michelle again, “wrote Trachtenberg, adding that he would not comment further on the matter.
Carpenter accused Whedon of “hostile and toxic” behavior on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. “For almost two decades, I held my tongue and even made excuses for certain events that traumatize me today,” she wrote in a long message this week.
“Joss Whedon has abused his power on several occasions while working on sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” she wrote about the show’s creator. “The disturbing incidents have triggered a chronic physical condition that I still suffer from. It is with a pounding and heavy heart that I say I faced it alone and, at times, destructively.”
Whedon has yet to comment on the charges.
On Thursday night, Eliza Dushku, who played Faith on Buffy and yours Angel spinoff, shared a statement on Instagram in which he expressed his “headaches” for Carpenter. “I am very sorry that you have kept this up for so long. Your post was powerful, painful and painted a picture that we will never collect or ignore. Thank you. Don’t forget that,” she wrote.