Fred Savage Was Fired From ‘The Wonder Years’ Reboot After Accusations of Groping, Verbal Harassment (Report)

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according to The Hollywood Reporter.The star of the original “Wonder Years” was fired as director and executive producer of its reboot following an investigation into charges of inappropriate behavior, a spokesman for 20th Television confirmed to TheWrap in early May.

Specifics regarding the misconduct were not revealed. Now, some of the women, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Hollywood Reporter they “feel that people need to know what the wrongdoing was.”The crew members described two sides Savage presented to people he interacted with — one that was “very charming” and “social” and another that “manipulative,” “erratic” and “scary.” Particularly, those who reported the actor to HR were concerned about his relationship with a younger woman, of whom he was “extremely controlling.” One crew member recalled that she attempted to shield the woman from Savage, at which point “he proceeded to verbally harass me and belittle me.” She added that “he pulled me aside multiple times” and “when he was verbally harassing me, his eyes would go dead.

But then “he flips a switch and he’s Fred Savage.”Another woman who said she reported Savage found his “very blatant favoritism” toward yet another woman in her early 30s disturbing (Savage is 46 and married with three children). “I’ve been in the industry a long time.

I’ve never seen anything quite like this, and I’ve seen a lot,” she told the Hollywood Reporter. She added that Savage eventually befriended her, charmed her parents and once invited her out to a bar with a group, where he cornered her in the women’s bathroom and forcibly kissed and groped her. “She said he approached her with “dead eyes” and pushed her against a wall, adding “I said, ‘Please, don’t do.