Ruby Rose reveals real reason she quit show in scathing take-down

Ruby Rose has delivered a bombshell take-down of cast, crew and execs on Batwoman, revealing her side of the events leading up to her sudden departure.

Ruby Rose has unleashed on producers, cast and crew, and executives involved in Batwoman in a series of explosive posts on social media.

The Australian actor, 35, claimed the network virtually forced her exit from the show by requiring her to return to work just days after undergoing major surgery as well as allegedly refusing responsibility for several severe on-set injuries and creating a toxic work environment.

“Dear fans, stop asking if I will return to that awful show,” said Rose in her scathing Instagram Story rebuke. “I wouldn’t return for any amount of money nor if a gun were to my head.”

She kicked off her bombshell tirade by targeting former CW president Peter Roth, accusing the 71-year-old of “making young women steam your pants around your crotch while you were still wearing said pants”.

Roth announced his departure from the network, after 22 years of service, in October 2020. No reason was given for his departure, but WarnerMedia noted he was “well respected by his colleagues and competitors, actors, writers, directors and producers”.

Rose starred in the show as Kate Kane, aka Batwoman.

She also blasted Roth for allegedly insisting she resume filming the series just 10 days after surgery for an injury she suffered on his set.

“Imagine going back to work 10 days after this,” Rose lamented in the closed caption of footage from her operation.

“[If I didn’t] the whole crew and cast would be fired, and I’d let everyone down, because Peter Roth said he wouldn’t recast and I just lost the studio millions [by getting injured on his set],” she claimed. “[And] that I’d be the one who cost so many people their jobs.”

Warner Bros. Television, the studio behind the CW drama, has since released a strongly-worded response to Deadline, agreeing that Rose was fired from the show but claiming it was the result of an internal probe into “complaints about workplace behaviour” against her.

“Despite the revisionist history that Ruby Rose is now sharing online aimed at the producers, the cast and crew, the network, and the Studio, the truth is that Warner Bros. Television had decided not to exercise its option to engage Ruby for season two of Batwoman based on multiple complaints about workplace behaviour that were extensively reviewed and handled privately out of respect for all concerned,” a spokesman told Deadline.

In her post, Rose went on to scold Roth for allegedly hiring a private investigator to look into her life after she abruptly stepped away from Batwoman in May 2020, shortly after the show had been renewed for a new season.

Rose suffered serious injuries during filming on Batwoman. Picture: Kimberley French/The CW

She then shared what she claims is footage of a doctor’s appointment, during which a medical professional appears to explain the “abnormal” damages done to her ribs as a result of an injury she reportedly sustained while filming the show.

“I have enough documentation to make a one-hour documentary,” Rose wrote in the video.

She noted that when the injury initially occurred, CW execs allegedly warned her that if she left the set to get an X-ray, she’d be disrupting the filming schedule.

“What else would you like me to share,” her in-post text continued. “The broken neck or the broken rib split in two and the tumour?”

Rose also claimed she suffered a “cut in the face so close to my eye in a stunt I could have been blind.”

She went on to rebuke producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for their lack of consideration for the many severe injuries crew members allegedly endured on the Batwoman soundstage, claiming a man suffered third-degree burns all over his body and a female production assistant was left a quadriplegic.

Berlanti Productions has been contacted for comment.

Rose, who starred in Orange Is The New Black, then called out showrunner Caroline Dries for reportedly only visiting the set “four to five times in a year,” and refusing to shut down production in the wake of the global health crisis.

“[Dries] has no heart and wanted us to finish the season throughout the pandemic and I told her it was a bad idea,” Rose claimed. “I told her everyone was too distracted, Matt constantly checking Covid updates, checking on friends and seeing Riverdale, The Flash and Super Girl shut down already.”

Rose also shamed Dries for allegedly denying that she’d sustained her injuries on set, claiming it “happened during yoga”.

“I don’t do yoga,” the actor barked, adding that the exec and her cohorts reportedly wouldn’t provide her with transportation to and from the studio after her surgery.

“[They] knew I couldn’t legally drive after surgery, so they said, ‘Get a taxi,’” Rose claimed.

But after blasting the CW and Batwoman higher-ups, she closed her social media scolding saying: “Aside from them I was loved and loved my crew.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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