


Keke Palmer is opening up about her experience working with Ryan Murphy — and it was certainly something to scream about.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Scream Queens alum details a daunting instance from her time on the FOX comedy series in her upcoming memoir Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative, specifically writing about organizing a day off to pursue other work after receiving her set schedule.
However, according to Palmer, she was informed by production the day of that they needed her on set. After she opted to proceed with her other obligation, Murphy allegedly “ripped” into her over the phone, per an excerpt shared by the LA Times.
“It was kind of like I was in the dean’s office,” she claimed. “He was like, ‘I’ve never seen you behave like this. I can’t believe that you, out of all people, would do something like this.'”
While the True Jackson, VP alum issued an apology and was under the impression that their relationship was fine once again, one of her co-stars told her differently in her trailer a couple days afterward.
“I said, ‘Ryan talked to me and I guess he’s cool, it’s fine,’ and she was like, ‘It’s bad,’ trying to make me scared or something, which was a little irritating,'” she recalled.

Palmer had thought she may become a Ryan Murphy mainstay, citing Sarah Paulson and her Scream Queens co-star Emma Roberts as examples, though she thinks their disagreement put an end to that.
“I’m still not sure Ryan cared, or got it, and that’s okay because he was just centering his business, which isn’t a problem to me,” she pens. “But what I do know is even if he didn’t care, and even if I never work with him again, he knows that I, too, see myself as a business.”
DECIDER reached out to Murphy’s publicist for comment, but did not hear back by time of publication.
Last September, Angelica Ross claimed that Murphy ghosted her after proposing an all-Black female American Horror Story installment, which he had allegedly been considering her and Palmer for.