In an interview for “Variety”, the actress accuses a filmmaker of acting inappropriately with her when she was 15 years old.
Rose McGowan chose to go public with sexual assault charges against filmmaker Alexander Payne, telling Variety “it’s about time.”
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The actress, who is one of the stars responsible for the downfall of Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein, demanded an apology from Alexander Payne in a series of tweets on Monday August 17, saying he acted inappropriately with her , when she was 15 years old. “You made me sit down and showed me a soft-core porn movie that you made for Showtime under a pseudonym,” she wrote. I still remember your apartment in Silverlake. You are very well endowed. You left me on a street corner after that. I just want recognition and an apology. I don’t want to destroy. ”
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“Sexual predation”
Representatives of the director of “Sideways” have not yet responded. But, in the meantime, the former “Charmed” star spoke to “Variety” on WhatsApp and expanded on his tweets.
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“I feel very bad for myself when I was 15,” she said. I had auditioned for him. He took me home afterwards. I quit acting after that and was discovered… six years later. It was only after the stories of HW (Harvey Weinstein) were made public that I rediscovered this pain. It had been years since I considered it a sexual encounter, without understanding what it really was. It was a situation of sexual predation. The first time I was shown straight porn. “
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“I am more sad than angry”
Rose McGowan had previously referred to an incident that happened to her when she was 15, but until Monday she had never mentioned a name, simply calling the man involved “very famous” in a 2018 interview with Ronan. Farrow. When asked why she had waited to name the alleged perpetrator, she replied, “It’s about time.”
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Following her interview, Rose McGowan responded on Instagram to reports suggesting that she and Alexander Payne were once friends, claiming they were nothing but “Hollywood acquaintances.” She also gave more details about her meeting with the director, this time without naming him, explaining, “I feel bad that I threw a bomb on someone’s life and career, but I guess it is. is social conditioning. I am more sad than angry. Sad for me at 15. Sad for me as an adult who always thought it was a choice I made. Sexual predation does exist. ”
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(Cover Media / LeMatin.ch)
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