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| Debra Messing as Grace Adler and Megan Mullally as Karen Walker in Will & Grace. Picture: StanSource: Supplied |
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Megan Mullally has fuelled talk of her feud with Will & Grace co-star Debra Messing, delivering a tirade about being “bullied” at work. After the hit show Will & Grace was revived almost a decade after its last episode for a final season, Mullally had been largely absent from the show, and it seems Messing is the one to blame, reports The Sun. She recently talked about the situation in her podcast with fellow actor and husband Nick Offerman from Parks and Recreation but failed to mention any names.
Mullally first said: “I’ve been bullied – I’m 60 and I’m being bullied right now, so you know it’s a very insidious and dangerous thing, and I never want to lose that happy and innocent part of myself, but it’s almost like you have to kill that.
“But I never will, it’s part of who I am, it’s intrinsic to my nature.”
The 61-year-old actress continued to talk about the impact of bullies.
“You think it’s your fault. They’re good at making you feel like it’s you and that you brought this on yourself,” she said.
She then seemingly graced over her current feud with the Will & Grace actress.
“The thing that I’ve had happen – this is tough – because I’m not good at standing up to people and having boundaries. So as I’ve gotten older, I’ve thought that if anyone tried to do that now, I would try to defend myself,” Mullally said.
“But the thing is that I’ve had a recent situation and I can’t be specific about, but I had it happen and I did try to stand up for myself in certain ways and that made it a thousand times worse.
“Because the person, the bully, it just lit a fire under that person where they just tripled their efforts, and it can get very dangerous.
“That’s why I don’t know what to say about it unless you have great advocates who can come in and help you and really take charge of the situation. This was a work situation for me – it’s tough because the very nature of the bully is that once they’re challenged, they really go to town.
“Like you thought it was bad before, wait.”
The four main characters are close friends on the show. Picture: StanSource:Supplied
They’ve always appeared to be friendly off screen as well. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
Mullally also seemed to explain why she doesn’t follow her other co-stars on social media or why she doesn’t interact with the cast.
She explained: “I’m pretty much on my own in this situation because the bully has recruited many of my allies to their side, and now they’re not my allies anymore.”
An insider had previously talked about the actresses’ relationship and said they were not on the greatest of terms.
The source told Radar Online: “They can’t stand to be near each other and it created an impossible atmosphere on the set.”
According to TVLine, Mullally also did not appear in two of the final season’s 18 episodes.
Mullally, 61, wrote on Instagram around the time that she stopped follow Messing on social media: “One of the best feelings is finally losing your attachment to somebody who isn’t good for you!”
She also unfollowed most of her co-stars from social media, rarely posts any pictures from the set – unlike the rest of the cast, and even took a leave of absence where she wasn’t spotted in a couple of episodes.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission
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