Kaling worked on The Office for the duration of its nine-year run, as an actor, writer, director and executive producer.
The Academy said that, at the time, every actor and writer who also produced was asked to justify their producer credit.
The actor, writer and showrunner claims she was “singled out” as the only woman and only person of colour in the writers’ room who was involved in the incident.
Mindy Kaling has lashed out at the organisation behind the Emmy Awards for “humiliating” her by making the star justify her credit as producer on the US series of The Office.