Orange Is The New Black actress, Taryn Manning is back with another video that is now deleted. In her latest Instagram video she seemingly accused the staff of the new show of abusive behavior after her character had a rape-centered storyline.
“On Orange Is the New Black, which most people know me for, thinking that that’s my only project, it was written that I was raped. I was raped on the show, remember?” The 44-year-old actress said. “No one ever told me that, when I had to hit the press, the amount of the wall I’d be up against. ‘So what was it like to be raped on the show?’ The most divisive, pervasive topic on the planet, and I had to stand up and be the spokesperson for rape. That’s abusive to me.” In the clip she then referenced “Jenji, Tara, Neri.” Jenji Kohan is the creator of the show and the executive producers are Tara Herrmann and Neri Kyle Tannenbaum. So she claims they didn’t prepare her to talk about such a hard topic during interviews while promoting the show.
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“Nobody ever told me what I would be up against. You just dropped that on me in that season, you just dropped it on me. ‘Oh, she’s just going to get raped, you’re just going to have to deal with it in the press.’ How abusive that was,” Manning said, adding that the reason she was recording the video in the first place was to respond to an earlier video in which she discussed speaking about her feelings related to the conviction and sentencing of Danny Masterson following the news that Asthon Kutcher and Mila Kunis wrote letters of support for the disgraced sitcom actor.
“Don’t come at me, that I’m the problem. I’m sitting here having compassion for someone that’s going to jail for the rest of your lives, and you’re still not satisfied, because you’re haters and your demons,” Manning said while ending the video.
Taryn Manning was a part of the cast of the popular Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black.” In the early seasons of the show, she had conflicts with some of her co-stars, including fellow actress and co-star, Selenis Leyva. These conflicts occasionally spilled over onto social media, where they exchanged heated words. Taryn Manning also has had some legal troubles in the past. In 2012, she was arrested for allegedly assaulting her personal assistant. The charges were later dropped, but the incident garnered media attention.
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Manning has occasionally made controversial statements on her social media accounts, including comments related to politics and social issues. These statements have sometimes drawn criticism and backlash from the public.
