Keke Palmer Recalls Getting Raked by Ryan Murphy During 'Scream Queens' Run

Actor, singer, and game show host Keke Palmer looks back in her new memoir to the time when, she said, Ryan Murphy raked her during her tenure on "Scream Queens."

The Hollywood Reporter detailed that anecdote, and added that the "Nope" star also revealed having been subjected to what she called a "racist" remark from another of the show's cast members.

In the memoir, titled "Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative," Palmer "recalls a time Murphy allegedly called her 'unprofessional,'" THR related.

In the book, the Los Angeles Times said, Palmer "describes how she'd been given her shooting schedule and arranged to fulfill another business obligation on a day off."

"But when that day rolled around, she writes, production told her that she was actually needed on set," the LA Times article continued. "She decided to keep her prior obligation, which she writes resulted in an angry phone call with Murphy in which he 'ripped' into her and told her she was unprofessional."

Speaking about that incident with the LA Times, Palmer detailed that "It was kind of like I was in the dean's office. He was like, 'I've never seen you behave like this. I can't believe that you, out of all people, would do something like this.'"

After offering an apology to the prolific out producer, Palmer considered the matter resolved. But then she found out from a third party that Murphy didn't necessarily feel the same way, the LA Times said.

"I said, 'Ryan talked to me and I guess he's cool, it's fine,'" Palmer recalled saying to a "Scream Queens" castmate, "and she was like, 'It's bad,' trying to make me scared or something, which was a little irritating."

Was that incident a barrier to Palmer forging the kind of ongoing relationship with Murphy that other actors have entered into, appearing in one of his productions after the next? Palmer speculated on that in the book, but added that "even if he didn't care, and even if I never work with him again, he knows that I, too, see myself as a business."

Palmer shared even more on her time with the show, though. Per the LA Times:

"In another part of the book, she describes how a white actor on the show, whom she calls 'Brenda,' once made a racist remark to her on set."

The co-star had had a disagreement, the LA Times summarized, and Palmer "tried to calm her down by suggesting that everyone 'have fun and respect each other.'"

The co-star's response? According to Palmer it was this:

"Keke, literally, just don't. Who do you think you are? Martin F– Luther King?"

"It was such a weighted thing that she said," Palmer told the newspaper, "but I didn't allow that weight to be projected on me, because I know who I am."

"I'm not no victim," Palmer added. "That's not my storyline, sweetie. I don't care what her ass said."

A former child star, Palmer still pushes back on the narrative that her "parents used her for money," the LA Times noted, and that she was "the teenager who never had a childhood because she was a Nickelodeon child star."

Palmer shot that down all over again while talking to the LA Times.

"The story is: My family from the south suburbs of Illinois had a dream. We drove four days and three nights [to move to LA], and they watched me become a generational talent. It took our family out of poverty into generational wealth."

Added the "True Jackson, VP" star: "I want to tell people, whether they're a little girl from the Midwest, a queer-identifying person, a first-generation immigrant – you control your story."