Melissa Barrera reveals she hasn’t spoken to former co-star Neve Campbell since Scream firing

Melissa Barrera revealed she no longer talks to her former Scream co-star, Neve Campbell.

The 34-year-old actress said she hasn’t spoken to Campbell, 51, ever since the latter returned to the production of Scream 7 despite Barrera’s firing. 

In spite of her seeming disappointment, Barrera said she ‘fully respected’ her former co-star’s decision to return to the franchise.

‘We haven’t really spoken,’ she said in a Decider interview, which was published on Friday. 

‘I think everyone makes their choices, and what they think is best for them,’ she said. ‘I fully respect what people think that they need to do, to keep going in this life.’

Melissa Barrera, 34, revealed she hasn’t spoken to Scream co-star, Neve Campbell, 51, since being fired from the franchise; (L) Barrera pictured October 24, (R) Campbell seen 2023

This comes after Barrera was fired from the franchise in November 2023 over pro-Palestine posts. 

She previously starred in 2022’s Scream and its 2023 sequel Scream 6.

Late last year, she was dropped by the production company Spyglass Media over what they said ‘crossed the line into hate speech.’ 

In November 2023, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, she shared a post on her Instagram Story, in which she said Gaza was being ‘treated like a concentration camp.’

In the same post, she asked if ‘people have learnt nothing from our histories’ and said: ‘This is genocide. This is ethnic cleansing.’

The actress, who played Sam Carpenter in the franchise, labeled Israel as a ‘colonized’ land and posted content containing an antisemitic trope in regards to Jewish people controlling the media. 

One post read: ‘Western media only shows the [Israeli] side. Why do they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself.’ 

She was then dropped by Spyglass Media from her role in the upcoming Scream 7 movie.

‘I think everyone makes their choices, and what they think is best for them,’ she said of Campbell returning to star in Scream 7 after her firing; pictured 2023

Barrera was let go from the franchise in November 2023 over pro-Palestine posts 

Another post complained she had been looking for videos from a Palestinian perspective to share, but couldn’t find any on her feed

Barrera later made another post saying she ‘condemn[ed] Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I condemn hate and prejudice of any kind against any group of people’

The production company behind the franchise then issued a statement accusing her of ‘antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.’

Shortly after she was axed, her co-star Jenna Ortega and director Christopher Landon departed Scream VII as well.

Ortega left the show, citing scheduling conflict with her series Wednesday as her reason for leaving.

Over the last year, more politicians and celebrities have echoed similar criticisms and called for a ceasefire as she had done in her controversial post.

When asked if she received an apology or was contacted by anyone who was involved in making the decision to fire her, she said she had received ‘nothing.’

A few months after Ortega’s exit, Campbell announced that she would be returning to the franchise.

The actress, who did not appear in Scream 6, announced that she would be returning for the upcoming installment alongside the original Scream director Kevin Williamson.  

Earlier this year, Barrera said she has no regrets about what she said.

She previously starred in 2022’s Scream and its 2023 sequel Scream 6; pictured in 2023 Scream VI still

Shortly after she was axed, her co-star Jenna Ortega and director Christopher Landon departed Scream VII as well

A few months after Ortega’s exit, Campbell announced that she would be returning to the franchise; pictured in 2022 Scream still

‘It wasn’t easy to be labeled as something so horrible [as antisemitic] when I knew that wasn’t the case,’ she told the Los Angeles Times in April. 

‘But I was always at peace, because I knew I had done nothing wrong,’ she continued.

‘I was aligned with human rights organizations globally, and so many experts and scholars and historians and, most importantly, Indigenous peoples around the world,’ she added. 

‘I find that the Indigenous communities around the world are always on the right side of history, point-blank, period.’