Candice Patton previously recalled being subjected to horrific racist abuse and harassment online when she was first cast in The Flash — and sadly, the CW and Warner Bros allegedly failed to protect her.

“At the time, it was kind of just like, ‘That’s how fans are, whatever,’” she said in 2022. “Even with the companies I was working with, The CW and WB, that was their way of handling it. We know better now. It’s not OK to treat your talent that way, to let them go through abuse and harassment. For me in 2014, there were no support systems. No one was looking out for that. It was free range to get abused every single day.”

“It’s just not enough to make me your lead female and say, ‘Look at us, we’re so progressive, we checked the box.’ It’s great, but you’ve put me in the ocean alone around sharks. It’s great to be in the ocean, but I can get eaten alive out here,” she added.