Melissa Barrera broke her silence on what it was like for her in Hollywood after she was fired from the Scream franchise.
The 34-year-old actress was dropped by the horror series after voicing support on social media for Palestine.
In a new interview, Melissa described the aftermath as “the darkest and hardest year of [her] life” and said that she had to “reevaluate everything” in the aftermath.
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“There were times where I felt like my life was over,” she told The Independent.
Melissa said that job offers dried up for her in the aftermath.
“It was quiet for, like, 10 months. I was still getting offers for small things here and there – I’m not going to lie and say there was nothing – but [the message] was, like, ‘Oh, she probably doesn’t have work, she’ll say yes to anything,’” she recalled.
Thankfully, she added that offers started coming in within the last few months.
What are her thoughts on the Scream franchise after all that she’s been through?
“They gave me a lot in my career,” she told the outlet. “I made really good friends. I have such loyal fans from those movies that are now watching the rest of the stuff that I do.”
However, she noted that fans discuss the situation with her whenever she runs into them at events, which leads her to think that it’s “never going to end.”
“Because the franchise is never going to end. So while I still have so much love for [those movies], the reminders of that very sour moment make it a little bit weird,” she explained.
As for how Melissa feels about a portion of the fandom refusing to watch the new movie she was fired from, she opined that fans would do what they thought was right.
“There are always going to be people that love you and people that hate you, and people that are open to a story continuing, and people that think that continuing it is ruining it. If they want to go watch the next one? Cool. If they don’t? Also cool,” she said.
Melissa added, “You just gotta act according to how you preach. And that depends on what you value, what your morals are, and whether you can separate that from art or not. There are people who can’t listen to R Kelly anymore, or Michael Jackson, or can’t watch Woody Allen films anymore. And then there are people who don’t care.”
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