Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has admitted she has had some disagreeable experiences in her profession.
In an interview with The New York Instances, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer star recalled her early days in Hollywood, saying it was “not simple”. Nonetheless, the 45-year-old actress stopped wanting sharing extra particulars.
“Rising up in New York, I had slightly little bit of road sense going into it, which is useful,” she shared. “However no, it was not simple. And I’ve had my fair proportion of experiences, I’ve simply chosen not [to tell them] – I do not win by telling my tales, emotionally, for me.”
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“I have a look at those that inform their tales, and I am so impressed,” she stated. “However on this world the place folks get torn aside, and sufferer blaming and shaming, I simply preserve my tales in right here.”
Gellar obtained her begin within the business on the younger age of 4, earlier than happening the star within the hit teen motion pictures Merciless Intentions and I Know What You Did Final Summer season. But it surely was her starring function on the teenager sequence Buffy that is still her most iconic function up to now.
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The actress performed the titular function of Buffy Summers within the sequence from 1997 to 2003, and it appears it hasn’t at all times been harmonious on the set of the Joss Whedon sequence. In 2020, 17 years after the sequence wrapped, co-star Charisma Carpenter got here ahead with allegations of abuse towards Whedon.
In a prolonged assertion, Carpenter – who performed Cordelia Chase – claimed in a prolonged twitter assertion that Whedon exhibited “casually merciless” behaviour, together with threatening to fireplace her, calling her “fats” when she was 4 months pregnant, asking her if she was going to “preserve” her child. Whedon has denied all of the allegations.
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As Carpenter’s claims made headlines, Gellar launched her personal assertion in help of her co-star.
“Whereas I’m proud to have my title related to Buffy Summers, I do not need to be perpetually related to the title Joss Whedon,” Gellar wrote in an announcement posted to Instagram on the time.
She stated she wouldn’t be making any additional statements on the matter, since she is “extra centered on elevating my household”. However she added, “I stand with all survivors of abuse and am happy with them for talking out.”
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