A Netflix executive was fired from his $1.1 million a year job after revealing during a \u201ctrust exercise\u201d at a work retreat that he had taken medically prescribed ketamine, a lawsuit has claimed.<\/p>\n
Kevin Baillie, who was vice president and head of creative at Eyeline Studios, is suing the company after they launched an investigation into his comments that ultimately ended in his firing, the papers say.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kevin Baillie, ex-Vice President and Head of Creative at Eyeline Studios, a division of Netflix. Instagram\/fxnerd<\/p>\n
Baillie at an awards show hosted at The Beverly Hills Hotel.<\/p>\n
Baillie, who\u2019s been on the visual effects team for \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d and the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d franchises, says he took the drug under medical supervision in October and November of 2022 at a Santa Barbara clinic.<\/p>\n
He sought the treatment for clinical depression after the death of his mother, according to the suit.<\/p>\n
During what\u2019s called a \u201cVulnerability-Trust exercise\u201d at a January 2026 retreat at the exclusive Sendero Ranch, a Northern California property owned by Netflix, Baillie shared with his colleagues that he had undergone the treatment, the suit says.<\/p>\n
Baillie claims he explained the reason why he had taken the drug but was investigated by Netflix. On March 18, 2026 a company investigator brought the incident up, \u201cin a manner suggesting suspicion of recreational drug use,\u201d the suit reads.<\/p>\n
The exclusive Sendero Ranch, a Northern California property owned by Netflix. Instagram\/cecimeseeds<\/p>\n
The executive was fired in April with the company\u2019s attorney confirming \u201cthat the ketamine therapy issue has factored into the termination.\u201d Instagram\/fxnerd<\/p>\n
The executive was fired in April with the company\u2019s attorney confirming \u201cthe ketamine therapy issue has factored into the termination,\u201d the papers say, and go on to suggest Baille was denied up to a year of severance pay.<\/p>\n
Baillie says in the lawsuit the \u201cscope\u201d of the investigation related to alleged profanity and drinking. He had been warned during his performance review that he should \u201cdrop one or two less f-bombs but don\u2019t stop entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It goes on to say that at the same retreat Baillie drank a Guinness standing on his head, after sharing that he had learned the trick from his former father in law during a conversation inspired by the trust session.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis colleague immediately asked for a demonstration, rather than withhold the openness that the session had encouraged, he performed the trick,\u201d the papers say.<\/p>\n
Baille also paints a picture of an alcohol fueled company environment encouraged by the Eyeline Studios CEO Jeff Shapiro (pictured). Netflix<\/p>\n
Baille also paints a picture of an allegedly alcohol-fueled company environment encouraged by the Eyeline Studios CEO Jeff Shapiro.<\/p>\n
During two company outings \u201cShapiro purchased beer at a corner store and brought it into the vehicle for the group to share,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n
In addition to hosting multiple parties, Shapiro also had a personal bar in his office \u201cfrom which he served alcohol (to Baille) including after a successful meeting with Netflix\u2019s CEO Ted Sanandos,\u201d according to the papers.<\/p>\n
Baillie is asking for a jury trail, compensatory damages, lost wages, damages for emotional distress, and punitive damages.<\/p>\n
Netflix and Eyeline were contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Netflix executive was fired from his $1.1 million a year job after revealing during a \u201ctrust exercise\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[276,71677,171,48551,36552,270300,14107,5248,4659,100675,161221,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":["post-961726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-california","tag-corporate-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-firing","tag-harry-potter","tag-hirings-and-firings","tag-hollywood","tag-metro","tag-netflix","tag-pirates-of-the-caribbean","tag-ted-sarandos","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116989923609321339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}