The Affair's Sarah Treem seems to be ignorant of why Ruth Wilson quit the show

Jezebel

The Affair co-creator and showrunner's Op-Ed for Deadline last Friday in response to The Hollywood Reporter's bombshell report about Wilson's exit was a tone-deaf defense that didn't address any of the allegations, says Emily Alford. "Rather than addressing complaints about the work environment and allegations that she tried to talk actors into performing nude scenes by complimenting their bodies, Treem seems to suggest that Wilson was simply being difficult," says Alford. She adds: "All in all, the letter reads more like an ars poetica than an attempt to address a work environment that made an actor so uncomfortable that she quit her job on an award-winning series rather than continue daily negotiations around nudity not stipulated in her contract. Treem’s longwinded attempt to defend the concept of her show rather than recognize the complaints of Wilson and many others who spoke to the Reporter speaks more to her priorities than anything she wrote in the op-ed."