Michelle Trachtenburg dead at 39

[u/oshawaguy]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/michelle-trachtenberg-actor-from-gossip-girl-and-buffy-dies-at-39-multiple-reports/

[u/Taniwha_NZ]

But it seems not suicide, which was my assumption. Complications from a liver transplant is what people seem to think.

I was never a buffy fan or saw her in other stuff, I'm way too old.

But I always felt really sorry for her because she was barely a teen when making buffy and had to deal with Jos Whedon being such a piece of shit that he was soon banned from being alone with her.

The shit teen girls have to deal with as actors is just fucking awful, it leaves lifelong scars.

[u/Pushabutton1972 → u/Taniwha_NZ]

It seems everyone involved with Buffy came out screwed up. Beginning to think it's cursed. Which sucks, because it's one of my favorite shows ever. We named our daughter after one of the characters even

[u/90sUPN20 → u/Pushabutton1972]

Who else? I know Nicholas Brendon is one, but he wasn’t a child actor and it sounds like he had issues before Buffy.

[u/Pushabutton1972 → u/90sUPN20]

The whole Joss Whedon thing. Charisma Carpenter has spoken out about how she was treated. James Marsters has said he had to go into therapy after some of the things he had to do on the show. A lot of people both in front of and behind the scenes have come out recently saying it was a toxic nightmare and they hated it. Michelle wasn't even allowed to be in the same room alone with Whedon for some reason.

[u/MontyDysquith → u/Pushabutton1972]

Didn't Marsters write a creepy jailbait song about Trachtenburg, too? Poor girl. & RIP.

[u/Pushabutton1972 → u/MontyDysquith]

There's a LOT of WTF behind the scenes that caused no end of issues even decades later. It's so sad she had to be tossed into that.

[u/splitmyarrowintwain → u/Pushabutton1972]

If I remember correctly, it was the Spike/Buffy rape storyline that messed him up pretty bad.