Keke Palmer has claimed Ryan Murphy once “ripped” into her during an angry phone call after she failed to turn up on set.
In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, the actress discussed her upcoming memoir Master Of Me: The Secret To Controlling Your Narrative, in which she shares anecdotes from her career.
In the book, Palmer wrote about two seasons on the Fox series Scream Queens, alongside Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Skyler Samuels and Lea Michele.
She described how after reviewing her shooting schedule in the series, she once arranged to take care of another business obligation on one of her days off.
But, when that day came, Palmer claims production informed her that she was actually needed on set. After Palmer decided to keep her prior obligation, she wrote that it resulted in an angry phone call with Murphy in which he “ripped” into her and accused her of being unprofessional.
Keke Palmer in ‘Scream Queens’ in 2016 CREDIT: FOX Image Collection via Getty Images
She told the LA Times: “It was kind of like I was in the dean’s office. He was like, ‘I’ve never seen you behave like this. I can’t believe that you, out of all people, would do something like this?’”
Palmer said she apologised and thought she was in the clear but she claims a co-star told her otherwise. “I said, ‘Ryan talked to me and I guess he’s cool, it’s fine,’ and she was like, ‘It’s bad’ trying to make me scared or something, which was a little irritating,” she added.
“I’m still not sure Ryan cared, or got it, and that’s OK because he was just centering his business, which isn’t a problem to me. But what I do know is even if he didn’t care, and even if I never work with him again, he knows that I, too, see myself as a business.”
Palmer also detailed an incident in which a white actress, whom she keeps anonymous and refers to as “Brenda,” allegedly made a racist remark to her on set after Palmer suggested they calm down and everyone “have fun and respect each other.”
“Keke, literally, just don’t. Who do you think you are? Martin fucking Luther King?” Palmer wrote that the person said in response.
“It was such a weighted thing that she said, but I didn’t allow that weight to be projected on me, because I know who I am,” she added. “I’m not no victim. That’s not my storyline, sweetie. I don’t care what her ass said. If I allow what she said to cripple me, then she would.
Ryan Murphy is yet to comment publicly on Palmer’s allegations.
Elsewhere, Palmer recently reflected on the time her ex-partner, Darius Jackson, outfit shamed her.
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