Former X-Males ’97 showrunner Beau DeMayo has spoken at size about his controversial departure from Marvel Studios, addressing his firing, an ongoing authorized battle with the corporate, and his more and more specific OnlyFans account in a wide-ranging interview with Self-importance Honest.
DeMayo had already completed writing X-Males ’97 Season 2 earlier than being dismissed simply 16 days earlier than the collection premiered in March 2024. On the time, Disney stated, “Mr. DeMayo was terminated in March 2024 following an inside investigation. Given the egregious nature of the findings, we severed ties with him instantly, and he has no additional affiliation with Marvel.”
Months later, the trades reported {that a} supply with data of the state of affairs claimed “proof was found of sexual misconduct” throughout Marvel’s investigation. DeMayo has constantly denied these allegations, stating in a September 2024 video, “These allegations of egregious misconduct are false. The rumours being unfold round me on-line are lies, and they’re offensive.”
That very same month, DeMayo filed a lawsuit in opposition to Marvel searching for aid from a non-disparagement settlement he alleges he was pressured into signing after his dismissal. The case stays energetic and is presently scheduled to go to trial in July 2027.
Throughout these newly revealed conversations with the positioning—till he went silent on them—DeMayo claimed he confronted discrimination whereas working at Marvel as a result of he’s “a queer Black man.” He alleged colleagues would inform him, “Oh, you do not appear like a showrunner,” including that there was “that vibe that I used to be the DEI rent.”
The author additionally addressed his on-line presence, revealing that Marvel was conscious of his OnlyFans account earlier than his firing. “It was cleared,” DeMayo stated, including, “It was like, ‘It’s your private life. So long as you are not promoting the present in your OnlyFans, so long as you are protecting it very separate from the content material of the present, it is outdoors of their purview.'”
He additionally defined why he turned extra snug posting revealing content material on-line. “Folks all the time ask questions on my Instagram and the way intercourse constructive it’s or thirsty,” DeMayo stated. “After I was rising up, I had such an enormous disgrace about my physique and bodily look, each racially and sexually. The extra I confronted that, the extra proud I turned of it.”
Nevertheless, since parting methods with Marvel, DeMayo’s OnlyFans account has turn into more and more specific, together with “full frontal nude photographs of DeMayo masturbating, taking part in with intercourse toys, and, in no less than one video, a ‘collab’ with one other male accomplice.”
That wasn’t the case when he was engaged on X-Males ’97, although, and in accordance to DeMayo, Disney HR contacted him whereas he was on the health club to query him about misconduct allegations earlier than informing him he was being terminated. He additionally claimed he was pressured into signing an exit settlement containing an NDA.
Following his departure, DeMayo turned more and more outspoken about Marvel on social media. He additionally alleged that the studio accused him of violating his exit settlement after he shared fan artwork depicting him as Cyclops throughout Satisfaction Month.
“I keep in mind sitting there your complete time being sick to my abdomen that this was going to turn into a difficulty, and that Marvel was going to come back at me for this,” he stated. “It’s like, ‘Right here I’m hanging out with my group, and I don’t really feel protected anymore due to this studio.'”
Regardless of being warned that posting the picture had damaged his NDA and that his identify could be faraway from Season 2’s credit, DeMayo nonetheless retains creator, government producer, and author credit on X-Males ’97‘s second batch of episodes, which premiered on Disney+ in the present day.
The characteristic notes that whereas DeMayo accomplished the scripts for season 2 earlier than his firing, they had been reportedly revised following his departure underneath supervising producer Jake Castorena.
One supply tells the positioning, “He’s essentially the most gifted author I do know. [The OnlyFans thing] is just not going to make it simpler for him. If you happen to had been a white straight dude, would this kill his profession as effectively? I don’t know.”
One other added, “A lot of it’s simply this narcissistic want for folks to look at him. I feel he wants approval, which is apparent contemplating his background. I get it. Now that he can’t get that from X-Males, I feel that is the following simple strategy to do it—or not simple, however the subsequent avenue for him. I don’t know if he could be doing it if he was nonetheless working.”
X-Males ’97 is now streaming on Disney+.
