"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press"
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A bruised power dynamic is doing most of the talking here. Louise Jameson isn’t just venting; she’s staking a claim to professional dignity in an industry that routinely treats performers as disposable parts in a corporate machine. The opening salvo, “They handled it very badly,” is deliberately broad: “they” turns a specific grievance into an indictment of a whole management culture, the kind that hides behind process and PR while individuals take the humiliation.
“Disappointing and very humiliating” is telling in its pairing. Disappointment implies an expectation of basic respect, even fairness. Humiliation is what happens when that expectation is publicly denied. This isn’t private hurt; it’s reputational damage, the special sting actors feel when their standing is negotiated in public without their consent.
Then comes the pivot from institutional to personal: “John York was very rude.” Naming him punctures the vagueness and forces accountability, but “rude” is an interesting choice - socially legible, almost understated, as if she’s describing a breach of manners rather than a breach of ethics. That restraint reads as strategic; it lets listeners fill in the harsher possibilities.
The core charge lands in the last line: “He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.” The subtext is control. Press statements are currency; they shape narratives about professionalism, employability, and blame. Jameson is highlighting a familiar entertainment asymmetry: executives get to speak, talent gets to absorb the fallout. The intent is not only to complain, but to reassert that her voice - and her name - are not props for someone else’s messaging.
“Disappointing and very humiliating” is telling in its pairing. Disappointment implies an expectation of basic respect, even fairness. Humiliation is what happens when that expectation is publicly denied. This isn’t private hurt; it’s reputational damage, the special sting actors feel when their standing is negotiated in public without their consent.
Then comes the pivot from institutional to personal: “John York was very rude.” Naming him punctures the vagueness and forces accountability, but “rude” is an interesting choice - socially legible, almost understated, as if she’s describing a breach of manners rather than a breach of ethics. That restraint reads as strategic; it lets listeners fill in the harsher possibilities.
The core charge lands in the last line: “He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.” The subtext is control. Press statements are currency; they shape narratives about professionalism, employability, and blame. Jameson is highlighting a familiar entertainment asymmetry: executives get to speak, talent gets to absorb the fallout. The intent is not only to complain, but to reassert that her voice - and her name - are not props for someone else’s messaging.
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