Melissa McCarthy is opening up about a work environment she found herself in that she deemed as “hostile, volatile.” The Little Mermaid star didn’t say what film set this took place in nor who the person was, but she recalled feeling “physically ill” from the tense workplace conditions she was subjected to. “I did work for someone once who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made me physically ill.
My eyes were swelling up, I was absorbing all of this nuttiness,” McCarthy told The Observer. She continued, “There were people weeping, visibly so upset by this one person.
And I think that’s why the manipulation worked, because to get to me, this person would fire people I loved, which kept me quiet.
It was very effective.” Although McCarthy says she had initially remained quiet, there came a point where she raised her voice to call out the hostile work conditions. “Then one day, I was like, ‘It stops today!’ I just kept saying to them, ‘It stops, it stops.’ And I know now I’ll never keep quiet again,” she added.
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