Eliza Dushku has come out in support of her former Buffy, The Vampire Slayer and Angel co-star Charisma Carpenter following her allegations against showrunner Joss Whedon.
Earlier this week Carpenter recounted her experience of a toxic workplace environment that she claimed stemmed directly from Whedon, while her co-star Michelle Trachtenberg has since alleged that the producer was not allowed to be in a room with her.
Dushku played Faith on Buffy and Angel, and also teamed up with Whedon again for the sci-fi series Dollhouse, and said in an Instagram post on Friday that she "hadn't known" what had been happening.
"CC my heart aches for you & I'm so sorry you have held this for so long," she wrote. "Your post was powerful, painful and painted a picture we'll collectively never un-see or un-know.
"Thank you. I hadn't known it and I won't forget it. I frequently think of the saying, 'We are as sick as our secrets.' Our secrets indeed make and keep us sick.
"What I'm learning more and more - and have personally found most valuable - is that profound healing can only come from naming and disclosing what actually happened, the necessary first step (once someone's ready) to freeing ourselves from our secrets, untold truths which have kept us isolated, ashamed and held hostage."
Whedon has still not responded to the allegations against him.
Neil Wilkes
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