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The star of Bandstand would possibly quickly take the witness stand.
Final week, Broadway actress Laura Osnes sued The New York Put up for defamation over an article that the newspaper revealed a yr in the past. She claims that the newspaper’s “libelous conduct has triggered, and continues to trigger, [her] shame and humiliation, hurt to her skilled and private repute, psychological anguish and emotional misery,” and he or she is searching for a minimum of $5 million in damages.
The article claimed that Osnes was fired from a particular efficiency of the deliberate Broadway revival of Loopy for You for refusing to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19. The theater presenting the present was reported to have a coverage that “requires employees and performers to be vaccinated, or submit a unfavourable COVID check.”
Nevertheless, 5 days after the article was revealed, the actress issued a statement on social media describing what she claims “truly occurred.”
“A month in the past, I used to be knowledgeable that protocols had modified, and I might now want proof of vaccination to take part,” Osnes wrote. “I used to be disenchanted, however responded that I must withdraw, as I’ve not but gotten the vaccine,” she defined.
Osnes insisted that the choice of submitting a unfavourable COVID-19 check end result was by no means supplied to her. “I might have examined in a heartbeat — one thing I’ve been doing for months, and can proceed to take action, so as to hold working safely,” she stated.
As well as, addressing the politically divisive difficulty of vaccinations, Osnes continued that “I consider people have the appropriate to do analysis, seek the advice of a physician, and are available to their very own conclusions earlier than deciding whether or not or to not get any injection.” “There may be a lot that’s nonetheless unknown,” she wrote, including that, “[s]omeday, maybe [my husband and I] will really feel extra assured within the analysis to contemplate a special place.”
“Each soul is entitled to reside in accordance with their convictions and work with out being publicly ostracized,” Osnes argued.
However, the two-time Tony Award-nominated actress was changed in a touring production and two concerts of the musical Bonnie & Clyde in London’s West Finish. She is now scheduled to carry out 3 times per week as a vocalist in a musical circus present in Nashville, Tennessee, and recorded songs for a document to be launched in just a few months.
