"Rick & Morty" Staffers Detail Justin Roiland's Inappropriate Behavior in Scathing Report
Things are going from bad to worse for Rick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland as news has just come our way via The Hollywood Reporter that a new scathing report was just released by former and current staff members who Roiland worked with on the show.
If you’re just catching up, Roiland was accused of sexual assault as well as false imprisonment and has been subsequently dropped from all future projects he was involved in for Adult Swim and Rick & Morty.
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Dozens of anonymous staffers have come forward to tell their stories. The picture painted is as bizarre as it is horrifying as workers detailed Roiland's general disinterest in showing up for work. When he did come into the office, sources from Rick and Morty's writer's room said they never saw him or would if Roiland was giving personal tours to adult entertainment stars like Riley Reid.
Multiple women have come forward and revealed Roiland sent lewd messages they claimed to have received from Roiland. He direct-messaged former Mad magazine editor Allie Goertz, a longtime fan who was prepping a Rick and Morty concept album: “Can you write a song about 9 Dick’s of different sized and ethnic origins hanging above your face, and then in the lyrics describe how they each splatter you with semen.” He allegedly messaged another woman, who posted the exchange using an anonymous Twitter account and claimed to have been underage when they began corresponding, “You should just run away from home and go into sex slavery YOU FUCKING STUPID FAGGOT BITCH (!!!) (Jk).”
The Hollywood Reporter continues: Over the next two weeks, insiders say, advertisers panicked, lawyers huddled and, ultimately, one of the biggest names in animation watched as his career imploded. Roiland was stripped of his lucrative overall deal at Disney’s 20th Television Animation, and both Adult Swim ( released statements that they had severed ties. Roiland will be replaced as the voices of Rick, Morty and Solar‘s alien scientist Korvo going forward.
Multiple sources have stated that Roiland has had little to do with Rick & Morty’s production other than his voice over duties. In fact, many of his former colleagues say they haven’t heard from him in years, and when they have, it’s been unpleasant. They note, too, that he hasn’t been on speaking terms with his Rick and Morty co-creator, Dan Harmon, for multiple seasons, and a substantial number of staffers on that show as well as Solar Opposites and Koala Man have never actually met Roiland, even over Zoom.
The report goes on to say that Roiland become more and more disengaged with staff and by season three, was barely in the writers room at all and was intentionally avoiding it as well.
The article goes on into greater detail but we’ll leave it up to you to read. The link for it is at the beginning of this writing.
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