Actress Michelle Trachtenberg explained this Thursday about claims earlier this week that her “Buffy and the Vampire Slayer” boss was abusive behavior as a whole “toxic.”
Trachtenberg filed the cryptic allegations against show creator Joss Whedon, 56, in an updated Instagram post: “The last one. I’ll comment on that. It was. There was a rule. Said. No. she is allowed to return to a single room with Michelle, “the 35-year-old wrote.
The actress was 15 when she took on the role of Dawn Summers, Sarah Michelle Gellar’s “Buffy” little sister, who she played from 2000 to 2003. Trachtenberg, who later appeared on CW’s “Gossip Girl,” it did not go into explicit details about what led to the alleged rule or about who implemented it.
Trachtenberg’s allegations come after Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase, published claims about Whedon’s alleged beginning of “toxic” and “hostile” behavior. She also claimed to have called her “fat” at an individual meeting when she was pregnant.
“Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel sets,” said Carpenter, 50. he wrote. “Although he found his misbehavior funny, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me and distance me from my peers. The disturbing incidents caused a chronic physical condition that I still suffer from. It is with a beating and heavy heart that I say that I faced in an isolated and, sometimes, destructive way ”.
Trachtenberg first appeared after Gellar, 43, responded to Carpenter’s viral post in a statement on Instagram supporting “abuse survivors.”
“While I’m proud to associate my name with Buffy Summers, I don’t want it to be associated forever with the name Joss Whedon,” Gellar posted. “… I’m on the side of all the survivors of the abuses and I’m proud of them for speaking out.”
Trachtenberg responded to Gellar for the first time on Wednesday, writing, “Thank you @sarahmgellar for saying that. Now I’m brave enough as a 35-year-old woman … To republish this. Because. That must be. Be known. When I was a teenager. With his inappropriate behavior … a lot. No. Appropriate. “
Representatives of Whedon, who currently works on “The Nevers” for HBO, have not responded to requests for comment from The Post.
The industry boyfriend first experienced a wave of negative press and attacked social media after his ex-wife, architect Kai Cole, accused him of cheating in a scathing online trial for The Wrap in 2017.
Cole accused the director of “multiple affairs” for his 15-year marriage and claimed the first of these alleged notions was on the set of “Buffy.”
“He hid various issues and a number of inappropriate emotions he had with his actresses, co-workers, fans and friends, while staying married to me,” Cole wrote.
“He tricked me for 15 years so I could have everything I wanted. I believed, everyone believed, that he was one of the good ones, committed to fighting for women’s rights, committed to our marriage and the women he worked with. “
A successful closure of the Whedon fan site after 15 years amid Cole’s claims, including his claim that “I now see how he used his relationship with me as a shield, during and after our marriage, so no one would question her relationships with other women or examine her writings as anything other than feminist. “
Whedon and Cole met in 1991 and married in 1995, a year before production of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” began, a pivotal television show centered on a strong female hero who has often been considered a feminist series. defining.