Sharon Johal has revealed she felt some of her scripts on long-running soap Neighbours were 'tokenistic'.
The 33-year-old told the Tia Maria One of a Kind podcast: 'Little things would happen, there would be tokenism within the scripts and I'm not a confrontational person, but I'll do it if I need to.'
'I tried to sort things out as they would happen in the best way possible,' she added.
Tokens: Sharon Johal (pictured) has revealed she felt some of her scripts on long-running soap Neighbours were 'tokenistic'
Sharon added that she felt pressure to be a good representative for Indian Punjabi cultural background.
'It was all this weight on my shoulders to represent the community accurately and properly because I was the first one and they made be this flag-bearer, even though I didn't want that role,' she said.
It comes after the actress released a statement in April about her 'painful' four years on Neighbours, which included racial slurs, mocking comments and a colleague calling her a 'c**t' after she confronted them over an offensive remark.
The 33-year-old told the Tia Maria One of a Kind podcast: 'Little things would happen, there would be tokenism within the scripts and I'm not a confrontational person, but I'll do it if I need to. 'I tried to sort things out as they would happen in the best way possible'
Sharon, who played Dipi Rebecchi from 2017 until March, said: 'The past week for me has been a traumatising, triggering and painful experience, with the resurfacing of compounded trauma I have tried to deny, bury, and ultimately, survive.'
She went on to allege that on more than one occasion, a current cast member (not a person of colour) directly referred to her as 'you people', while speaking in derogatory terms about an altercation they were involved in with an Indian person.
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