You’re about to read some foul language so consider yourself forewarned.
“Fuck you you fucking douche bag loser from hell. You will burn. You will be an empty suit coffin. You go fall off the planet you fuck.”
That was Rose McGowan’s colourful response to Harvey Weinstein’s statement, which attempted to deny the allegations of rape the actress made against the producer.
In her book “BRAVE,” McGowan shared details of the alleged rape for the first time, reports Indie Wire:
The activist says that she was invited to Weinstein’s suite at a hotel in Park City, Utah where she was told the two would be meeting to talk about her career. When she arrived at Weinstein’s suite, however, the studio executive pulled her into a room with a jacuzzi and took off her clothes. Weinstein allegedly sat on the side of the jacuzzi, where he forcibly performed oral sex on her while masturbating.
After the alleged abuse occurred, McGowan says she was taken to do a photo-op at Sundance with Ben Affleck. The two were at the festival promoting their Weinstein-backed film “Phantoms.” According to McGowan, Affleck saw her shaking and after hearing where she had come from he told her, “Goddamn it. I told him to stop doing that,” implying that he knew about Weinstein’s history of abuse.
To deny this claim, Weinstein’s statement, released through his lawyer, shared emails from Ben Affleck and McGowan’s former manager Jill Messick that don’t corroborate with McGowan’s story:
Brafman released an email Affleck reportedly sent Weinstein on July 26, long before the wave of allegations against Weinstein started in October. The email finds Affleck denying that McGowan ever told her about the alleged rape.
The email released from McGowan’s former manager Jill Messick says that McGowan told her she consensually got into the hot tub the night she met Weinstein at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, only to later regret the decision.
So McGowan dropped the tweet:
She did follow it up with a more formal statement, which you can read in full here.
If you haven’t been keeping up-to-date with McGowan’s war, watch her interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, during which she says:
“I do not need to hear what he [Harvey Weinstein] because I know what he did, and we all do.”
Yeah, she gets really spicy:
Or, another option that has recently become available – the E! produced reality show, Citizen Rose, which follows McGowan around as she campaigns against and deals with Weinstein.
