{"id":265889,"date":"2026-06-13T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265889\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:28:08","slug":"keke-palmer-says-a-white-scream-queens-co-star-snapped-who-do-you-think-you-are-martin-f-ing-luther-king-she-refuses-to-name-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265889\/","title":{"rendered":"Keke Palmer Says a White Scream Queens Co-Star Snapped, \u201cWho Do You Think You Are? Martin F\u2014Ing Luther King?\u201d She Refuses to Name Her"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Skyler\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tBy \"\"<\/a>
\nNadia Santiago<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated 6 hours ago,
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJune 13, 2026<\/p>\n

Palmer could have named the co-star. Plenty of people wanted her to. Instead she gave the woman a pseudonym, \u201cBrenda,\u201d and explained why: she didn\u2019t want the story to become about that person, and she didn\u2019t want to hand the remark any power over her.<\/p>\n

The moment lives in her book, Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative. Palmer played Zayday Williams on Scream Queens in 2015, and she recounts trying to calm a tense moment between castmates by suggesting everyone have some fun and respect each other. A white co-star shut her down with the Martin Luther King line.<\/p>\n

\"ThreeScream Queens<\/p>\n

Palmer has been on camera since she was 11. Somewhere along the way she decided the only person who gets to define her story is her, and that decision is the whole thesis of the book.<\/p>\n

\"FourScream Queens<\/p>\n

She has been clear that she isn\u2019t interested in being anybody\u2019s victim. The remark happened, she carried it, and then she put it inside a book about owning your own narrative rather than letting other people write it for you.<\/p>\n

\"FiveScream Queens<\/p>\n

That is what mastery of your own story looks like. You decide what stays anonymous, what gets a chapter, and whose name the book belongs to.<\/p>\n

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About the author<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tNadia Santiago<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n

Nadia Santiago is a writer who lives between the clouds and the coastline, and writes about all the things your heart knows but your mouth can never quite say.<\/p>\n

Some relationships don\u2019t follow a straight line.<\/p>\n

Every Year After explores what happens when life forces you to stop running from your feelings.<\/p>\n

Available now on Prime.<\/p>\n


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