Actor Matt McGorry is clarifying that he is an actor and not his Orange Is the New Black character.

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McGorry, who plays John Bennett on the series, has received his fair share of hate online ever since the season 3, episode 2 episode Bed Bugs and Beyond. The episode featured Bennett, who impregnated inmate Daya (Dascha Polanco) in season 1, bailing on her and seemingly quitting his job at the prison.

Many fans have taken to social media to hurl insults at McGorry himself. But now, McGorry is fighting back and letting fans know that he is not his character.

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The actor posted a photo of himself on Instagram Sunday with Polanco and Elizabeth Rodriguez, who plays Daya's mother Aleida, alongside a long caption.

"Happy Fathers Day to all the real fathers out there! I am an actor and I play the fictional character John Bennett on the fictional television show entitled Orange Is The New Black," he wrote. "Here I am with actresses Dascha Polanco and Elizabeth Rodriguez who play make-believe mother-daughter characters named Dayanara and Aleida Diaz on the made up television program with me. They are not mother and Daugther in real life even though they and we play pretend characters that are sometimes even the opposite of who we are as real live people while not reflecting our real lives because it is not real.

A photo posted by Matt McGorry (@mattmcgorry) on Jun 21, 2015 at 9:20am PDT

 

"Moments before this photograph was taken I was even saying words that were written by another person, all the while pretending that my name was John Bennett and that his thoughts and actions were a result of my own brain! Weirdly, the words coming out of my mouth and the things I did in the story were not created by me at all! To make matters even more confusing, I am even dressed in fictional character John Bennett's costume (a costume is like fictional clothes) in this photograph that was taken on the television set and afterwards I went home to my apartment in New York City where I don't have a child because I'm not a father and have never worked in a prison and TV is not real life. #oitnb".

Hopefully this should clear things up for fans who seem to think the show is somehow reality. McGorry also stars in ABC's How to Get Away with Murder, which returns in September.

Watch all three seasons of Orange Is the New Black currently available on Netflix.

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