The star, who played Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel from 1997 until 2004, released a powerful statement on social media titled ‘My Truth’, in which she recalled how his abuse of abuse left her traumatised. “While he found his misconduct amusing, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me, and alienate me from my peers,” she wrote. “The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition in which I still suffer. “It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively.” Carpenter hash-tagged her post #IStandWithRayFisher,’ a reference to the star who spoke out about Whedon’s “gross, abusive and unprofessional” conduct on the set of Justice League,