The actor says The CW and Warner Bros. TV didn’t protect her from “abuse and harassment.”
“It was hard in that aspect, the on-set aspect.
I wanted to leave the show as early as season 2,” she says.
Candice Patton and Grant Gustin on ‘The Flash’.Katie Yu/The CW
“Now people understand a little better.
They understand how fans can be racist especially in genre [adaptations] and misogynistic.
But for me in 2014, there were no support systems.
No one was looking out for that.
It was just free range to get abused every single day.
It’s great, but you’ve put me in the ocean alone around sharks.
It’s great to be in the ocean, but I can get eaten alive out here.”
Any time you hire a minority of any kind you have to be prepared to protect them.
In the real world, we are not protected.
Representatives for The CW did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
