‘Yellowstone’ Actor Q’Orianka Kilcher Charged With Disability Pay Fraud – National | Globalnews.ca

Actress Q’Orianka Kilcher, who appeared on the TV show. yellow stone and is best known for playing Pocahontas in the 2005 film The new Worldhas been charged with illegally collecting nearly $97,000 (about $130,000) in disability benefits.

Kilcher, 32, of North Hollywood is charged with two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, according to a Monday report. Press release from the California Department of Insurance (CDI).

In October 2018, Kilcher reportedly injured his neck and right shoulder while working on the set of the 2019 film. Dora and the lost city of gold.

After consulting a doctor several times that year, Kilcher discontinued treatment. A year later, in October 2019, Kilcher approached the insurance company handling her claim and said that she needed more medical help, according to the news release. The CDI says that she told a doctor that she had severe neck pain and that she could not accept the job due to the severity of her injury.

“Based on Kilcher’s statements to the doctor, he began receiving temporary total disability benefits,” the news release says.

Between 2019 and 2021, Kilcher received $96,838 in temporary disability benefits.

However, the CDI says that an investigation into Kilcher’s claim revealed that during the time of her alleged disability, she worked as an actress in yellow stonewhere she played Angela Blue Thunder for four episodes alongside Kevin Costner.

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His time on the set of yellow stone it lasted from July 2019 to October 2019, even though he told his doctor that he had been unable to work for a year.

“According to records, he went back to the doctor and began receiving disability benefits five days after last working on the program,” the statement said.

Kilcher surrendered and was arraigned on the charges in May, according to the California Department of Insurance.

Michael Becker, Kilcher’s attorney, said the actor was a passenger in a production vehicle when she was injured during the filming of dora.

“External doctors verified his injury and his right to benefits. Ms. Kilcher was truthful at all times with her treating physicians and providers…and she never knowingly accepted benefits that she did not believe she was entitled to,” Becker said.

Kilcher “will vigorously defend himself and ask that he be presumed innocent both in and out of court,” Becker said.

In 2010, Kilcher was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for tying himself to a white house fence. Her mother was arrested along with her and the couple told the authorities that they were protesting the visit of the Peruvian president. Kilcher’s father is an indigenous person from Peru.

— with files from The Associated Press