{"id":40422,"date":"2022-08-09T19:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fred-savage-accused-of-misconduct-on-the-wonder-years-reboot\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:34:34","slug":"fred-savage-accused-of-misconduct-on-the-wonder-years-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fred-savage-accused-of-misconduct-on-the-wonder-years-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Savage Accused of Misconduct on the Wonder Years Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fred Savage <\/strong>the <\/strong>executive producer and director of the Wonder Years <\/em>reboot who played the lead role in the 1988 original, <\/strong>was fired from the reboot in May <\/em>following of misconduct on the set of the show, a 20th Television rep confirmed at the time. Savage was previously accused of misconduct on the set of the original Wonder Years<\/em> <\/em>in 1993 and Fox’s The Grinder<\/em>which ran from 2015 to 2018. On August 9, new details emerged about the misconduct., with multiple female crew members telling The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> <\/em>that Savage’s alleged \u201cerratic\u201d behavior and proximity to a young woman on set led six women on the crew to report Savage to HR, which resulted in a swift investigation. \u201cTo their credit, I was contacted within hours,\u201d one woman tells THR<\/em>. \u201cAn investigation started immediately and he was barred from set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond Savage’s alleged multiple personas (higher-ups \u201call see his absolute perfect, best face,\u201d while \u201cbelow-the-line employees who don’t have any power\u201d see something different), multiple crew members say the interactions with a young female crew member made them uneasy. Sources claim that Savage was \u201cextremely controlling of her daily behaviors\u201d and \u201cmanipulative and erratic\u201d toward the woman. After one crew member attempted to intervene, she says Savage \u201cproceeded to verbally harass me and belittle me.\u201d She tells the publication <\/em>that she found Savage \u201cscary\u201d and that his \u201ceyes would go dead\u201d during the alleged verbal harassment, but then \u201che flips a switch and he’s Fred Savage.\u201d The crew members claim that the young woman’s personality changed after she grew close to Savage. Other sources allege that she moved into his Cabbagetown, Atlanta, rental home during filming. The young woman declined to speak with THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Another woman working on the reboot made a separate accusation against the ousted director-producer. She says she befriended Savage during every time working on The Wonder Years<\/em> and sometimes went to dinner with him. Though she declined his expensive gifts, the two remained \u201cplatonic\u201d friends. During a December 2021 group dinner in Astoria, near Savage’s home, at a bar the crew frequents, she went to the bathroom. Savage allegedly walked into the bathroom after she exited the stall. \u201cI started laughing, like, ‘What are you doing? This is a women’s bathroom,’\u201d she recalled. The source said Savage approached her. \u201cI said, ‘Please, don’t do this.’ I meant ruining the friendship,\u201d she told the magazine. \u201cI was pleading, not from fear so much, but this was no going back.\u201d Allegedly, Savage \u201cput his mouth on mine very forcefully. He went for the top of my pants. I brushed him away. Then he put his mouth on mine again, grabbed my hand and pulled it on his groin area. I was pulling back. He stopped very angrily. I shoulder checked him so I could get out.\u201d Following the alleged incident, the woman says she was \u201cscared of him for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savage attempted to contact her after the alleged events at the Astoria bar. In a voice-mail shared with THR<\/em>, he apologized to the woman. \u201cIt’s your old friend Fred,\u201d he said. \u201cWe worked together for a while and then we didn’t and then I was a huge asshole. A huge asshole. And I’m really sorry. And I’ve kind of owed you an apology for a minute here and so, uh, the truth is I really like you and I really want to be friends and I’m so sorry that I fucked that up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savage responded to the misconduct in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.<\/em> \u201cIt is devastating to learn that there are co-workers who feel I have fallen short of these goals. While there are some incidents being reported that absolutely did not and could not have happened, any one person who feels hurt or offended by my actions is one person too many,\u201d he tells the publication. Vulture has reached out to Savage’s reps for comment.<\/p>\n