Keke Palmer says “Scream Queens” costar still hasn't apologized for racist remark: 'She knows what she did'

An unnamed actress still owes Keke Palmer an apology — and she knows who she is.

Palmer, who spent two seasons on Scream Queens as Zayday Williams, has offered an update on her relationship with the white costar who once caught her off guard with a racist remark. Last year saw Palmer detail the encounter in her memoir, Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative, where she referred to the costar as "Brenda" rather than revealing her name. Now, Palmer says that she has yet to receive an apology from the mystery actress — though they did reach out over Instagram to congratulate her on the book.

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“I was like, ‘Hey, thanks, it feels good,’” Palmer told The Cut with a laugh. “She was just checking the temperature. She knows what she did.”

As Palmer recalls it, she stepped into the middle of a clash between "Brenda" and another costar and attempted to smooth over the argument by proposing that everyone “have fun and respect each other.”

To this, "Brenda" replied, “Keke, literally, just don’t. Who do you think you are? Martin f---ing Luther King?”

"It was such a weighted thing that she said, but I didn’t allow that weight to be projected on me, because I know who I am,” Palmer later told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m no victim. That’s not my storyline, sweetie. I don’t care what her ass said. If I allow what she said to cripple me, then she would.”

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That isn't the only Scream Queens relationship that Palmer offered an update on. Also included in her memoir was an anecdote about a messy confrontation with Ryan Murphy, who co-created the series with his frequent collaborators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Palmer alleged that the prolific TV creator once tore into her in an angry phone call, dubbing her "unprofessional" over a scheduling conflict.

"Ryan was really angry with me,” she wrote. “He ripped into me, and I took it.”

Palmer told the outlet that she has not heard from Murphy since divulging the incident, at least "not directly."

She added, "I definitely think that he thought that I could have been attacking him or trying to shame him or send the mobs after him. But the point of my bringing up Ryan Murphy wasn’t 'F--- Ryan Murphy, he ain’t shit.' It was, 'Look, I did what I had to do for me, and it caused me an issue with one of the most popular and successful men in the industry, and sometimes getting to your personal success may cost you to do the same thing.'"

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Palmer has since indicated that the disagreement may be why Murphy hasn't hired her since (the TV creator has a penchant for casting from the same pool of actresses across various projects) — though she isn't too torn up about it.

"That was just a job," she said of the two-season horror comedy. "It wasn’t the end goal. That was a stepping stone to me building the Keke Palmer brand.”

A rep for Murphy didn't immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.

Scream Queens, which debuted in 2015, followed a group of sorority girls who realize they're being targeted by a serial killer. The slasher satire starred Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, and featured a pre-blockbuster-star Glen Powell.

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