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Rose McGowanis clarifying critiques she made of the #MeToo movement.
The actress, 45,tweetedon Sunday, “I never said #MeToo is a lie. Ever. I was talking about Hollywood and Time’s Up, not #MeToo. Ugh. I’m so tired of erroneous s—storms. #MeToo is about survivors and their experiences, that cannot be taken away.”
According toDeadline, McGowan had previously toldThe Sunday Times Magazinethat she has not been invited to #MeToo events and does not want to attend them “because it’s all bulls—. It’s a lie.”
“It’s a Band-Aid lie to make them feel better,” she was quoted as saying in the profile. “I know these people, I know they’re lily-livered, and as long as it looks good on the surface, to them, that’s enough.”
She toldThe Sunday Times Magazinethat Hollywood women who support #MeToo are “douchebags,”Deadlinereported. She said, “They’re not champions. I just think they’re losers. I don’t like them. How do I explain the fact that I got aGQMan of the Year award and no women’s magazines and no women’s organizations have supported me?”
On Monday, McGowan posted two videos further restating her belief in #MeToo. “Hi everybody,” she started. “I’m just here to say that #MeToo is important, it’s honest, and it’s our experience. It is not a lie.”
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She continued, “For some reason, there are people in the media that will try to bring it down. But I say stand strong. Again, it’s simply our shared experience. That is what #MeToo is, and it’s beautiful, as are we.”
Elsewhere in her interview withThe Sunday Times Magazine, McGowan also said thatTrumpsupporters “hate Hollywood for being faux liberals — and they’re 100% right about that.”
She added, “It’s a bunch of faux liberals. It’s crap, and they know it is deep down, but they’re living an empty life, and to me that’s their punishment. They get to live the lives they live.”
McGowan further opined that it is “literally impossible” thatMeryl Streepdid not know aboutHarvey Weinstein‘s alleged misconduct and thatHillary Clintonalso must have known, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
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In 2017, Clinton said on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show about theallegations against Weinstein, “I was appalled. It was something that was just intolerable in every way.”
She noted, “And, you know, like so many people who’ve come forward and spoken out, this was a different side of a person who I and many others had known in the past.”
Harvey Weinstein with Rose McGowan in 2007.Jeff Vespa/WireImage
McGowan was one of the first women to speak out last October when Weinstein’s decades of alleged sexual misconduct and assault broke inThe New York TimesandThe New Yorker. McGowan claims Weinsteinsexually assaulted herin 1997.
source: people.com
