Keke Palmer Says Ryan Murphy ‘Ripped’ Into Her On Day Off

The Los Angeles Times just lately caught up with the favored multi-hyphenate entertainer and mom, 31, as she prepares for the discharge of her upcoming memoir, Grasp of Me, set for launch later this November. Throughout their chat, Palmer touched base on lots of the tidbits shared in her e-book, together with her time on Scream Queens, the two-season lengthy FOX horror sequence, which ran from 2015 to 2016.

Amongst Palmer’s recollections in Grasp of Me is an alleged incident between her and Ryan Murphy. As famous within the Los Angeles Instances, Palmer was as soon as given a filming schedule for “Scream Queens” that allowed her someday off to satisfy a previous enterprise obligation. When that day finally rolled round, Palmer acquired phrase from manufacturing that she was truly wanted on set. She as a substitute selected to take care of her prior obligation, which Murphy caught wind of and have become upset.

Palmer was then contacted through telephone by Murphy, who she alleges “ripped” into her and known as her “unprofessional.”

“It was sort of like I used to be within the dean’s workplace,” Keke shared. “He was like, ‘I’ve by no means seen you behave like this. I can’t consider that you just, out of all individuals, would do one thing like this.’”

Palmer provided an apology and assumed she had mended issues with Murphy.

A number of days after the alleged interplay, Palmer was again on set and believed that she and Murphy have been on good phrases. That was, till one in every of Keke’s co-stars instructed her in a different way.

“I stated, ‘Ryan talked to me and I assume he’s cool, it’s positive,’ and she or he was like, ‘It’s dangerous,’ making an attempt to make me scared or one thing, which was just a little irritating,” she defined.

Earlier than Murphy’s supposed shunning, Palmer hoped to work with the Glee co-creator once more, simply as many stars who’ve appeared in previous Murphy productions have continued to do.

“You retain seeing [these people] in Ryan’s world, [like] Sarah Paulson [and] Emma Roberts,” Palmer writes in Grasp of Me.

Alas, Palmer has seemingly by no means heard from Murphy following Scream Queens – which she’s greater than positive with.

“I’m nonetheless unsure Ryan cared, or bought [my point], and that’s okay as a result of he was simply centering his enterprise, which isn’t an issue to me,” Palmer expresses in Grasp of Me. “However what I do know is even when he didn’t care, and even when I by no means work with him once more, he is aware of that I, too, see myself as a enterprise.”

The Los Angeles Instances tried to achieve Murphy for remark however have been unsuccessful.

In one other part of Palmer’s “Grasp of Me,” the actress remembers one other supposed incident on the Scream Queens set the place a racial microaggression was lobbied towards her. After one in every of her co-stars, whom Keke refers to as “Brenda,” bought right into a conflict with an on-set colleague, Palmer took it upon herself to ease the tense state of affairs by reminding them to “have enjoyable and respect one another.”

The incensed co-star reportedly responded, “Keke, actually, simply don’t. Who do you assume you’re? Martin F— Luther King?”

Palmer has chosen to not title the alleged perpetrator, stating that it will give them energy by doing so.

“It was such a weighted factor that she stated, however I didn’t enable that weight to be projected on me, as a result of I do know who I’m,” Palmer shared. “I’m not no sufferer. That’s not my storyline, sweetie. I don’t care what her a-s stated. If I enable what she stated to cripple me, then she would.”

Palmer’s recollection of her Scream Queens expertise loans itself to an analogous expertise on a distinct Ryan Murphy manufacturing. Pose star Angelina Ross made headlines in September 2023 when she alleged in an Instagram Tales publish one other Murphy manufacturing mainstay, Emma Roberts, made a transphobic touch upon the set of American Horror Story: 1984. As famous right here on The Blast, Ross claimed that after a playfight with Roberts, a crew member settled them down by saying, “Girls, that’s sufficient,” to which Roberts allegedly responded, “Don’t you imply ‘woman’?”

“I am standing there, she walked away, [and] my blood is boiling,” the 42-year-old stated, as printed by E! News. “Boiling as a result of I am like, ‘If I say one thing, it is gonna be me that is the issue.'”

Roberts provided an apology to Ross days after the allegation. Ross has since retired from Hollywood.

Although Palmer’s take of her Scream Queens expertise is new, the present was beforehand known as out for moments of racial insensitivity. Digital Spy notes that within the debut episode, sorority chief Chanel Oberlin – performed by Emma Roberts – refers back to the maid as White Mammy “as a result of she’s primarily a home slave.”

Murphy tried to counteract the controversy by claiming that Chanel wasn’t written as a “hero” of any variety.

“I do not assume we have been ever glorifying it, or saying that these characters have been courageous or great for saying that,” he stated. “We have been saying that they have been damaged, and the system they have been in was damaged.”