Angelica Ross Claims Ryan Murphy Yelled at Her for Posting About Racism on ‘AHS’ Set
Angelica Ross claimed that American Horror Story cocreator Ryan Murphy yelled at her after she tweeted about a racist incident that occurred on the set of the anthology horror series. https://t.co/joXxJzRJzU
- Us Weekly (@usweekly) September 23, 2023
"He starts off not, ‘Are you OK?’ Not, ‘What’s going on?’ He starts off: ‘What’s your fucking problem?! Are you serious?’” Ross explained during an interview, that the phone call took place after she expressed concerns to director John J. Gray about a crew member who allegedly repeatedly wore T-shirts containing racially charged language to set. Ross was told that the crew member was exercising his right to free speech.
"So, I then tweet. ‘It’s a shame that I do all this work out in the world on anti-Blackness and racism and have to come to a set and do the same work,’” A producer asked her to delete the tweet. “[And Ryan] goes, ‘You think that I would fucking silence you after all I’ve done and I’ve been an advocate and done nothing but uplift trans Black women?’”
Ross wasn’t surprised by the producer’s reaction.
“I’ve dealt with this before. This is not my first time at the rodeo of dealing with that energy of white people who think that they are doing good but won’t check their own selves when someone Black or of the people they’re trying to help is telling them, ‘You have a blind spot,’”
AHS producer Tanase Popa told the publication that she was standing next to Murphy during the phone call in question and claimed she did not hear him cuss at or say the rest, but that Murphy basically said, ‘I don’t understand why you would go to Twitter instead of coming to us.’
Ross claimed that her former AHS costar Emma Roberts was also “aware of the T-shirts.”
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