By all accounts, there was no real ill will towards Bujold on the part of the producers, but that didn’t keep a strange rumor from circulating that she was whom the leola root was named after.
Or, more specifically, that it was named after a character she played in The Adventures of Pinocchio. Because the leola root is so legendarily bitter and nasty, the rumor claimed that this was meant to be an ongoing slight against the woman who effectively abandoned the role of a lifetime.
However, there was less substance to this rumor than there was decent flavor in leola root stew. First of all, the character Bujold played in that film was named Leona, not Leola. Second of all, leola root was introduced in the 1995 episode “State of Flux,” and Bujold’s film wouldn’t come out until 1996.
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