Ryan Murphy reportedly cursed out Angelica Ross after she posted about an 'American Horror Story' crew member's racist T-shirt
- Angelica Ross slammed "American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy in a new interview.
- Ross told The Hollywood Reporter that Murphy cursed at her after she tweeted about racism on the set of "AHS."
Angelica Ross doubled down on her criticism of the cast and crew of "American Horror Story," telling The Hollywood Reporter that creator Ryan Murphy once cursed at her after she tweeted about racism on set.
Ross told THR's Seth Abramovitch that the incident began after she worked with a crew member for a driving scene in "American Horror Story: 1984." That crew member, Ross said, wore "racist" t-shirts every day on set.
"One day it was, 'Build that wall.' The next day it was white praying hands in front of an American flag, and it said, 'I don't kneel.' Those are the ones I remember. This guy had a collection. I started speaking up about it," she recalled.
The "Pose" star said she eventually walked off set after the crew member's shirts made her unable to focus during takes, and she subsequently took refuge in a production van.
"I said, 'I'm not coming out of this van until you handle the situation. Either he has to take that shirt off or turn it inside out, but this is not right,'" she explained.
After the episode's director tried to bring her back to set, saying that the crew member's shirts were a "freedom of speech issue," Ross said she remained in the van, and tweeted of the incident: "It's a shame that I do all this work out in the world on anti-Blackness and racism and have to come to a set and do the same work."
Shortly thereafter, Ross said she got a call from Tanase Popa, one of the show's producers, telling her that Murphy thought she should delete the tweet because things were being handled, and that they were all a family.
Ross responded that she would delete the tweet, but that she felt like she was being silenced. She said that Murphy called her immediately after she made that comment.
"He starts off not, 'Are you OK?' Not, 'What's going on?' He starts off: 'What's your fucking problem?! Are you serious?!' He goes, 'You think that I would fucking silence you after all I've done and I've been an advocate and done nothing but uplift trans Black women?'" Ross told The Hollywood Reporter of her conversation with Murphy.
"He is cussing me out. After he finishes. I say, 'Ryan, that's not what's going on here. First of all, the situation has not been handled. The guy is still on set,'" she continued.
Ross says she told Murphy that she felt unsafe on set, and also that she felt burdened with "a second job of being the adult in the room and handling the situation that you should be handling."
Ross said that Murphy apologized for the incident, and told her that he wanted to be her champion.
Elsewhere in the article, Ross said that Murphy no longer responds to her attempts at contact.
Representatives for FX and Murphy didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. The THR report includes a lengthy comment from producer Tanase Popa about the incident in question, in which he disputes the fact that Murphy cursed at Ross.
"His assistant Sara Stelwagen was next to him and we did not hear him cuss at her or say, 'After all I've done for you, why would you do this?' He basically said, 'I don't understand why you would go to Twitter instead of coming to us,'" the producer said, in part.
Ross' accusations come after she accused her "AHS" costar Emma Roberts of making a transphobic remark towards her on set. (Ross later tweeted that Roberts called her to apologize.) She'd also previously accused Murphy of ghosting her after they'd talked about doing an all-Black season of "American Horror Story" together.