Melissa McCarthy said, "I did work for someone once who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made me physically ill. ... To get to me, this person would fire people I loved, which kept me quiet."

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Her Forbidden Fruits costars encouraged her to say his name, but she declined, adding, "I'll tell you later. ... I won't say his name. You know, weirdly, I don't think his intentions were bad. I genuinely think he didn't want me to look at the footage later and be like, 'Oh, someone maybe should've told me it was an unflattering angle.'"

Alexandra Shipp replied, "Here's the tea. That was on him and the [director of photography] to find a flattering way to shoot you, not to make your body your problem."

"I had to stop him and say 'no, I don't want that,' and 'I can't do that.' I physically walked away from the situation before it could get any worse. I remember feeling like this was a scene right out of a horror movie.

After awkward silence and me feeling completely violated and uncomfortable, he convinced me to get in his car– I assumed he was going to drive me home. I didn't have any money and couldn't afford a taxi or an Uber. So I figured it was okay.

As we were driving, I realized he was trying to take me back to his apartment. And I knew if I made it there, something bad was going to happen to me. I told him to drop me off at my home, that I didn't want to go back to his place. He said some snarky comment but reluctantly brought me to where I was staying.

The next day I tried to talk to him about the situation. I told him how uncomfortable it made me and how wrong it felt. Thinking back on it now, the situation is hard for me to swallow. I was so young and didn't know how to handle the situation. I just knew how wrong it felt and that I had been violated. This guy proceeded to tell me that it was my fault for leading him on. Saying that 'I seemed like a sexual girl and that I'd be down for it.' That I misled him," she said.

"I was miserable. And I felt that I needed to keep my mouth shut about the entire situation because 1. I figured no one would believe me and 2. he played a much bigger role in this project than me… he had more power. If I said something, maybe the production would be halted… people would be put out of work. I would be looked at as dramatic and a diva, no one would want to work with me again," she wrote.

On Instagram, her costar, Skyler Samuels, praised her for speaking out. She wrote, "That's what Keke does, she speaks up and stands up, for herself and others. Scream Queens was a very challenging show to make. Keke was one of the only people who stood up for me. She was brave enough to have my back even though she knew that it might make her a target of bullies on set. I have unending gratitude for the professionalism and kindness Keke showed me. She is a leading lady in this industry who is well aware of her influence, and she uses it for the better."

She continued, "Some of the guys were great and some of them were totally gentlemen, but when you go from zero to 60, from 'Nobody knows who I am' to 'I'm on the carpet of award shows' — what's that thing they say, that like, 'Any fool can handle adversity, you want to test a man's mettle, give him success?'"

He also denied that it was his Interstellar costar Casey Affleck.

She continued, "I went bawling to my brother, and he was like, 'What happened?' And I was like, 'He told me I was too big.' And my brother was like, 'What just happened?' My brother was so angry. I had to pick it up and go back on set and pretend he was a love interest, and it was really hard… It just makes you realize that there are some really bad people out there, and for some reason, he felt the need to say that to me. You have to kind of forgive and not forget, really, but it was just like, wow. It was jarring. I look back on it, and I was 15, which is really, really dark."

She said that, "in front of the whole crew," this costar would yell things like "You call yourself an actor?” and “This is what I have to work with?"

Rebecca continued, "I looked at this person, and I said, 'You can F off. I'm gonna work towards a tennis ball. I never want to see you again.'"

However, higher-ups told her, "You can't do this to number one. We have to let this person be on set," so, for the rest of the shoot, Rebecca only acted to the back of the other actor's head.

She clarified that she wasn't talking about Hugh Jackman or Tom Cruise.

She said, "I was excited about the question, because the point was: Is there a point in your career where you were treated in a way where you changed your decision on — this is how I formulated it in myself — where you want change, or you will not accept it? ... And it was such a clear moment for me working with this person. ... The point of the interview wasn’t about finding the person."

The viral investigation prompted several of Rebecca's former colleagues to reach out privately. She said, "I got phone calls from amazing costars who I've worked with, going, 'You understand what you've done, right?’ And I was like, 'Oh my God. No, I didn't think.'"

"It's, like, the way a person can look at you that you just, like, 'Yeah, I know you're calling me a [n-word]. I know you're calling me a [n-word].' Because he was a Mormon, too," she said.

She continued, "I was like, 'Yo, you need to step off because I'm about to fuck you up.' And, like, I fucked up dudes before. My dad was an Army man. He has taught me too much, because all I was thinking was what I was going to hit first. And he got this big-ass Adam's apple... That [n-word] will not be able to fucking stand up. So I'm squaring off. I'm ready to bring my head up to his chin. I'm ready, right? I'm yelling, like going off, like, 'Get the fuck out my face.' And he kept stepping to me.

Tiffany comes out the dressing room because that was her week [hosting]. She was like, 'What's up, cuz?' Like, that's my girl! 'What's up, cuz? Who the fuck talkin' shit? Who talkin' shit?' I said…'We about to fuck him up.'

Do you know we had to still go and shoot after that? So this motherfucker would come over and try to give a direction...I was like, 'Don't you put your motherfucking hand on me.' And then the camera would come on. That night was crazy."

"I remember thinking at the time, 'This is going to do one of two things for me. It's either going to make me never speak up for myself again because it will just get me shut down, or it's going to show me that even if you don't get the response you want, being happy and proud of yourself for being able to express yourself in those situations is going to be worthwhile.' And that was the choice I ended up making," she said.

She said that, eight years later, the director offered her a job. She only went to have her "moment" and remind him they'd met before, but he "had no recollection of it."

She said, "He was waiting for me, and I just realized, like, I won't even fucking say your name because you know you're the scumbag. You know it's you, and if anybody ever asked me about him, I would be completely honest. And he knows that. And I kind of like that he's got to be on a hot seat. He doesn't know when it's going to come. I kind of like that a little more."

He later said, "Mostly, what I judge on set is bad behavior. It's selfishness, cruelty, bullying, or people complaining to the person who's getting them dressed, who doesn't get in a year what they earn in a day to pick their filthy underwear off the floor. That, or not turning up, or going home early, or thinking they know better than the director, or being on crack and calling prostitutes to their trailer. I come across all that stuff. ...

I'm not so stupid as to even give hints or clues about who those people are. I recently interviewed a friend, who's a wonderful author, at a book fair, and someone came up and said, 'I'm from Penguin. You tell stories very well. You ever thought about writing a memoir?' And I went, 'Not in a million fucking years until everybody I know is dead.' Because I have stories. I know where all the bodies are buried. I often fantasize about doing a junket and telling the truth, and when I win the lottery, possibly that will be the case. But there is no value, other than masochism and sabotage, in telling people the truth about people I've worked with or experiences I've had. Acting is all about secrets."

She added, "But now it's like, annoying because they're all like, 'We're all friends now,' and I'm just like, 'You, one person, literally made it hell for us, because if we chose the wrong friend, we would be destroyed.'"

She also said, "She and I always looked out for each other. If you're the only girls on a male-dominated set, it bonds you in a certain way."

"This was after I had taken all of the recommended, reasonable and appropriate measures of reporting confidentially to my union. The experience left me with a lot of questions, of the professionals in my industry, of the public, and of men," she said.

You can read the rest of Abigail's statement here.

Melanie said, "It was really important to me for [my character Shauna] to not ever comment on my body, to not have me putting a dress on and being like, 'I wish I looked a bit better.'

I did find it important that this character is just comfortable and sexual and not thinking or talking about it, because I want women to be able to to watch it and be like, 'Wow, she looks like me, and nobody's saying she's the fat one.' That representation is important."

She continued, "I ran into that showrunner at the Emmys a few years later. Both of our shows were nominated. He pretended not to know who I was. They swept the awards that night, and part of me resented him for that. But you know, he hasn't really made anything since."

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), which routes the caller to their nearest sexual assault service provider. You can also search for your local center here. 

For help and support, ANAD's eating disorder helpline is 1-888-375-7767.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness helpline is 1-800-950-6264 (NAMI) and provides information and referral services; GoodTherapy.org is an association of mental health professionals from more than 25 countries who support efforts to reduce harm in therapy.