The following is an e-mail i sent to AFTRA though it had some typos.  My email system is messed up for some reason.  I can’t see what I am writing because the letters are so small.  seriously I think I may have a virus or I did something with my settings.  I have to add that I felt this past year that every time I brought up an idea it was shot down or someone else was given credit and that they always stressed how I could only do union and yet I know people who do plays all the time who are union and it is OK.  I felt subjected to ridicule and as though I was not considered an actor and it was wrong.  I moved to California to grow and become a woman who could achieve things artistically on her own, and to get away from people who told me no you can’t and for the most part because I am a girl. I fought to walk twice.  Beat cancer.  And I am not guilty of anything.   

 I will fight to act and I should thank AFTRA because now I can go SAG or do non-union acting. But I am a professional and as long as I can not be on studio lots after years of working on them because of what one of my friends has even called a prejudice against my person and lies of others I will continue to have a harm. I don’t want to fight.  It is a waste of my time and yours.  But I will fight to be the best person I can be and I am best when Acting is a part of my life and what a joke to be denied that right by someone who can not even admit or appologize.  My last venture to AFTRA was to apply for a class they offered for free.  In the year I have been there I applied for two and was not accepted to either.  I made a mistake.  I wanted to take the last class because I want to get training in green screen because I love sci fi.  Do not preach EEO, equal opportunity but then single out one person who you have not auditioned or worked with.  I can act and I have recommendations and people in my life who know I can.   

When I say actions, if Mr George files a bogus action or restraining order against me because he cant even have a conversation about his actions in the past that were fraudulent and harmful to others I personally dont want to work with him, and I would have further action against him.  I am an eligible union actor still and this farce ends.  The government and AFTRA and my father do not have the right to dictate my life. I am hard working and i’d work hard for any director that hired me.  that is why I am here and not for what the background who by the way were stalking Mr Miller themselves said.  I respected the rules. I never said more then a hello to an actor on the set of Eli Stone or I am sorry unless they spoke to me and I will not be rejected by certain individuals who are bigots of the worse kind to women and to artists. 

The email:Thank you. It is my understanding my money is being sent back. As far as i am concerned you might as well state that jason george and the EEO were being prejudicial toward me and that is a farce.  I will fight to work on sets and act because I have equal right as any person, regardless of race, sex or religion.  I was not on sets for men and I was bullied and lied about.  I am sorry that certain people on the committee think only pretty people should act.  I am not ugly.  I spent years on sets even before I worked with any of the actors from Eli Stone. If I find that any actions are filed against me when all I wanted was to talk to mr george without having to file a law suit for violations of my rights and i was assaulted by Consuelo who cursed me.  I am not going to allow my rights to be violated and if I have to I would an action with the ACLU or the AFLCIO for violations of those rights.  To me the face that Jason George would not even be in the same room with me or talk to me says that he is equally at fault with Patrick Dempsey and Eric Dane since the background all knew I was a lawyer and they insinuated I was not and lied about me and cost me my work, my life and why I  beat cancer.
 
I will not be force against my will to be a lawyer when under the ethics rules if a person is not healthy enough to do the job or has conflicts that prevent them from being a lawyer, it is my duty to not be one.  thank you.  When I join the other union I will not accept being treated unequally by anyone there.  Mr George does not have the right to subject me to abuse, prevent me from my career. I fought men like him in my own family who degraded women every day back on the east coast and would have rather have me think I was unattractive and stupid so i would never get a career beyond being a teacher, nurse, or housewife.  peace and again thank you.

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