Keke Palmer recalls the time she had a tense experience while working with Ryan Murphy.
The actress worked with Murphy on the short-lived series, Scream Queens. While discussing her new memoir, Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative, she opened up about one encounter she had on what was supposed to be her day off from the show.
Palmer said that she was scheduled for a day off due to another work obligation, however, she found out that Murphy needed her to be on the set last minute. She decided to keep her day off as planned when she received a phone call from Murphy berating her.
“It was kind of like I was in the dean’s office,’ she said in an interview. “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 revealed that she apologized and believed that they worked things out but found out that the situation was “bad.” “I’m still not sure Ryan cared or got it, and that’s okay because he was just centering his business, which isn’t a problem to me,” a part of the book reads. “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.”
She also spoke about when an unnamed white woman nicknamed Brenda made a racist comment to her after trying to calm her down over an incident with another colleague. “Keke, literally, just don’t. Who do you think you are? Martin F*****g Luther King?” Brenda reportedly said.
“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,” Palmer said about the incident. “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.
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