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Alexa Nikolas opened up in 2019 about Jamie Lynn Spears and different Zoey 101 solid members allegedly bullying her on the set of the teenager present. Nikolas was notably written out of the present after Season 2.
Along with claims of bullying ways like exclusion and mocking, Nikolas additionally revealed in 2022 that she was as soon as lured right into a room with Jamie Lynn and her sister Britney Spears beneath false pretenses, intentionally separated from her mom. Britney Spears reportedly screamed at Nikolas and threatened her future in Hollywood.
Nikolas says she was left traumatized by the expertise, sobbing within the fetal place in her trailer. The present’s creator Dan Schneider allegedly requested her to get again on set and gave her a DVD participant to get her to cease crying.
Nikolas later accused Jamie Lynn of mendacity about her in her memoir, and accused Nickelodeon of failing to guard her as a baby star, calling her expertise there “traumatic.” She additionally known as Schneider “the creator of childhood trauma.” Schneider has been accused of sexualizing and mistreating his younger stars.
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One other celeb accused of bullying on set is Lea Michele. After visitor star Samantha Marie Ware accused Michele of racist bullying involving “traumatic microaggressions,” Amber Riley appeared to assist the claims after posting a GIF of her sipping tea, and Alex Newell additionally took to social media to assist Ware’s claims. Heather Morris later revealed there was a “hush hush” environment about Lea’s “scary” on-set habits.
Michele apologized for her habits in response to the backlash. “I clearly acted in methods which harm different individuals. Whether or not it was my privileged place and perspective that triggered me to be perceived as insensitive or inappropriate at instances or whether or not it was simply my immaturity and me simply being unnecessarily tough, I apologize for my habits and for any ache which I’ve triggered. All of us can develop and alter, and I’ve positively used these previous a number of months to replicate by myself shortcomings.”
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John Leguizamo says costar Steven Seagal bullied him and others throughout Govt Resolution, and claims he even bodily assaulted Leguizamo in the course of the first day of rehearsals.
“He got here in and was like, [low, breathy voice] ‘I am in command. What I say is regulation.’ … Who comes into rehearsal and says that shit? So, I began laughing, and he slammed me with an aikido elbow in opposition to a brick wall and knocked all of the air out of me,” Leguizamo continued.
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David Yost, who memorably performed the blue energy ranger within the ’90s Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers sequence, says he was bullied so badly that he needed to depart the present, shortly thereafter experiencing a nervous breakdown. Yost claimed the bullying — together with being known as anti-gay slurs just like the f-slur — was incessant, and got here from creators, producers, writers, and administrators. “Mainly, I simply felt like I used to be regularly being instructed I used to be unfit of being the place I’m as a result of I am a homosexual particular person. And I am not speculated to be an actor. And I am not a superhero,” he later stated, revealing the bullying triggered him to grow to be suicidal.
Yost additionally particularly talked about a remark from costar Bryan Cranston (although, it ought to be famous, Cranston solely did voiceover work on the present and was not part of this day by day bullying). In a 2009 interview, Cranston known as Yost/the blue energy ranger the “‘fey’ one.” “After I learn that interview, which happened a few 12 months earlier than I got here out publicly, it actually harm me,” Yost stated. “In his thoughts, he in all probability thinks he was being humorous, however that is the form of factor that is not humorous, and that is the form of factor I might hear whereas I used to be engaged on set… it will get to you.” Cranston later apologized to the actor.
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Many years after the ’80s sitcom Charles in Cost, star Scott Baio was accused of sexual harassment by two of his then-teenaged costars: Alexander Polinsky and Nicole Eggert.
Polinsky alleged that Baio (who performed a live-in babysitter on the present) assaulted and harassed him from the ages of 12–15, exhibiting his genitals to Polinsky, knocking down Polinsky’s pants on set, and calling him anti-gay slurs in addition to describing specific homosexual intercourse acts. The bullying and harassment allegedly turned bodily when Baio threw sizzling tea in his face. Baio denied the claims, saying, “For causes I don’t perceive, I’m the goal of false claims that threaten every part that’s essential in my life.”
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Eggert accused Baio of molestation throughout her time on the present, which started when she was 14. The abuse allegedly continued till Eggert was 17, with Baio telling Eggert if she instructed anybody, the present would finish and they might all be out of jobs. Baio has denied any inappropriate touching and says that they had a onetime consensual encounter when Eggert was 18.
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Jerry Lewis was accused of sexual harassment after his loss of life. Karen Sharpe, who appeared with Lewis in The Disorderly Orderly, stated she was pressured to mannequin her wardrobe for Lewis. “He grabbed me. He started to fondle me. He unzipped his pants,” Sharpe claimed. She says he then remoted her, asking that nobody else converse to her on set.
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Hope Vacation additionally accused Lewis of assault, saying that he introduced her into his workplace and locked the door throughout her first day on set of The Girls Man. “He begins to speak soiled to me, and as he’s speaking, the pants open, and the ugly factor got here out and he begins to masturbate,” Vacation revealed.
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In 2017, Hint Lysette accused Jeffrey Tambor of sexual harassment on the set of Clear, describing one incident the place he stated, “I wish to assault you sexually” earlier than filming a scene, then “waddled over to me in his pajamas and put his ft on prime of mine, and began these little, like, thrusts on my hip. They had been discreet and insidious and creepy. I felt his genitals on me. And I pushed him off.”
Tambor’s ensuing assertion learn that he had “by no means been a predator” however acknowledged he might be “unstable and ill-tempered” and “categorical my opinions harshly and with out tact.” Tambor had beforehand been accused of sexual harassment by his former assistant Van Barnes, which Tambor had known as “baseless allegations” from a “former disgruntled assistant.” He was fired from the Amazon sequence after an investigation, which Tambor known as “deeply flawed and biased.”
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Insurgent Wilson not too long ago opened up about “terrible and disgusting” sexual harassment from a male costar, although she didn’t identify who. “He known as me right into a room and pulled down his pants,” she revealed, saying the costar then requested her to carry out a sexual act. Afraid of retaliation and desirous to be a “skilled,” Wilson stayed on the venture, although she stated, “Positively amongst trade circles, I made certain individuals knew what occurred.”
She had additionally individually revealed {that a} male costar “able of energy requested me to enter a room with him after which requested me repeatedly to stay my finger up his ass. All while his male ‘buddies’ tried to movie the incident on their iPhones and laughed. I repeatedly stated no and finally acquired out of the room.”
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Lili Reinhart additionally says she was sexually harassed by an unnamed costar early in her profession. “I used to be a youngster engaged on a venture after I began to have a crush on a man I used to be working with,” she defined in a Tumblr submit. “He was fairly considerably older than me, however I considered myself as mature so it didn’t look like a giant deal.” Reinhart says that he later tried to power himself on her. “I needed to cease him and say, ‘No, I don’t need that,’ and ‘I can’t do this.’ I bodily walked away from the state of affairs earlier than it might get any worse. I bear in mind feeling like this was a scene proper out of a horror film.”
After Reinhart tried to carry up his habits to him, he “proceeded to inform me that it was my fault for main him on. Saying that ‘I appeared like a sexual woman and that I’d be down for it.’ That I misled him. Days following, he grew indignant on the state of affairs and have become defensive about it and his actions. Claiming that I used to be ‘a tease’ and ‘essentially the most manipulative lady he’d ever met.'” Reinhart stated she saved quiet as a result of she did not really feel individuals would imagine her, and since her costar had an even bigger function and “extra energy” within the venture. “If I stated one thing, possibly the manufacturing could be halted… individuals could be put out of labor. I might be checked out as dramatic and a diva; nobody would wish to work with me once more.”
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Invoice Cosby has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by a variety of ladies — together with The Cosby Present costars Lili Bernard and Eden Tirl. Bernard alleged that Cosby had drugged and raped her on a number of events within the ’90s, whereas Tirl alleged that in 1989, Cosby touched her with out consent in his dressing room. Cosby was convicted in 2018 on a number of counts of sexual assault (after being accused by over 50 ladies), although this was overturned in 2021.
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Daniel Franzese (greatest identified for taking part in Damian in Imply Women) accused Bully costar Bijou Phillips of being an precise bully on the set of the movie. “She body-shamed me and ridiculed me about my sexuality and bodily assaulted me,” he stated, revealing he was scared to talk up and lose his job.
She later reportedly gave Franzese an insincere apology earlier than twisting his nipple. Throughout one other scene, Franzese claims Phillips put her soiled ft on his neck after which kicked him. “To at the present time, I’m not even certain if she gave me a concussion as a result of I used to be lightheaded and dizzy for some time,” he stated, revealing the entire expertise gave him PTSD and triggered him to stay closeted.
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Geena Davis accused Invoice Murray of constructing her lie in a mattress whereas he used a therapeutic massage machine on her whereas they had been costarring in Fast Change collectively, regardless of her saying no a number of instances. She additionally stated he verbally berated many within the solid and crew, together with Davis herself. She’s additionally mentioned inappropriate habits in the course of the press tour for the movie.
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In actual fact, Murray has been accused of dangerous habits by a variety of costars, together with Seth Inexperienced, who appeared with Murray on Saturday Night time Stay when Inexperienced was simply 9. He was sitting on the arm of Murray’s chair backstage when he says Murray picked him up, dangled him over the trash can, and stated “the trash goes within the trash can.” Inexperienced flailed till he hit Murray within the balls, inflicting Murray to drop him and Inexperienced to fall into the trash can, which fell over. Inexperienced then bumped into his dressing room, hid beneath the desk, and cried.
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Murray has additionally been accused of “inexcusable and unacceptable” feedback towards Lucy Liu throughout rehearsals for his or her movie Charlie’s Angels.
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Eliza Dushku was fired from the sequence Bull after complaining about sexual harassment from her costar Michael Weatherly. Dushku detailed how she “discovered myself the brunt of crude, sexualized, and lewd verbal assaults” and “suffered close to fixed sexual harassment” from Weatherly. “This was past something I had skilled in my 30-year profession,” she stated.
He allegedly known as her “Legs” and “would scent [her] and [leeringly look her] up and down. Off script, in entrance of about 100 crew members and solid members, he as soon as stated that he would take [her] to his ‘rape’ van and use lube and lengthy phallic issues on me and take [her] over his knee and spank [her] like somewhat woman.”
Weatherly later apologized for his feedback, saying, “Throughout the course of taping our present, I made some jokes mocking some strains within the script. When Eliza instructed me that she wasn’t comfy with my language and try at humor, I used to be mortified to have offended her and instantly apologized. After reflecting on this additional, I higher perceive that what I stated was each not humorous and never applicable, and I’m sorry and remorse the ache this triggered Eliza.” Dushku was later paid a $9.5-million settlement over these claims of harassment.
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Whereas star Judy Garland herself by no means publicly acknowledged these allegations, her ex-husband Sid Luft wrote in his memoir that the actors taking part in the munchkins on the set of The Wizard of Oz would put their fingers up her skirt. Garland was 16, and most of the males had been of their 40s.
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And eventually, in line with the documentary Celluloid Crime of the Century and the e-book Wes Craven’s The Final Home on the Left, Sandra Peabody (who glided by the identify Sandra Cassel on the time) was horribly mistreated by her male costars on the set of The Final Home on the Left. Marc Sheffler admitted to threatening to throw her off a cliff to attempt to rile her up for a scene (although in 2018 he acknowledged she was not in actual hazard), and David Hess allegedly threatened to truly assault her in a rape scene they had been about to movie.
