Brave Rose McGowan sparked a movement when she exposed Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood.
Recently, on The Dr. Oz Show – the actress/activist and survivor revealed her next mission.
From slut shaming to short skirts, Rose McGowan spoke out like never before – sharing the aftermath of her alleged abuse and why she no longer cares about her fame or career:
HERE’S SOME:
Dr. Oz asks, “How did you react to that, this man could also make your career or destroy your career?”
Rose McGowan answers, “Oh I didn’t care about that anymore. Oh that I, I, career is nothing. I don’t care about that, I never cared about that. But I knew, since I got famous so quickly, that what other job am I going to get, where am I going to go? You were, like I said, you are suddenly trapped in the tiniest town in the world where you’re the girl that the football captain raped and everybody in town knows it, but they all gas light you and they tell you it’s not snowing, it’s not snowing’ and then they slut shame you in the media and then they make you feel bad and that you wore a short skirt, you took a payment. You wore a short skirt you deserved it, that’s the new version of it, right?”
Dr. Oz asks, “Why did they offer you 100,000 dollars?”
McGowan responds, “To buy my peace. That’s what it said. And I was like ‘ha ha ha ha ha’ I tried to buy a billboard with it. That is what I was trying to do. I tried to buy a billboard that said Harvey Weinstein is a rapist.”
She pauses, and continues, “There I said it. We all survived didn’t we?”
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Rose McGowan expressed her frustration to Dr. Oz on Hollywood and how it’s merely the blueprint to America’s problem with women:
Rose McGowan says, “The hypocrisy in trivializing something that’s so deep. Like what does that make me or anybody who has been hurt feel like? Why is the #MeToo emoji that Twitter gave pink? Doesn’t that exclude all boys… who’ve been hurt? We have to think about these things, they matter, language matters, color matters, everything we do matters, every detail matters.”
Dr. Oz, “So what of the folks in Hollywood. You’ve mentioned Ben Affleck. There are others that you’ve spoken about in the past.”
Rose McGowan reacts, “They’re not horrible, they’re the institution, they’re the idea of what it is. It’s not Ben Affleck, person; it’s Ben Affleck idea in establishment. It’s what…he’s playing a type. He’s a type, they sell types right. So this type.. Meryl Streep.. they’re like a building right. They want you to come into the building.”
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Rose McGowan speaks out about the parallels she sees between her and Miley Cyrus:
Rose McGowan explains, “You can watch an interview from, like, a long time ago it was Roseanne. I’ve never changed. There was a little shaming in it, it was after I wore the crazy dress right? That crazy dress and I talk about it in the book – why did I wear that? It was my first public appearance after being sexually assaulted and I was like – is this what you want?”
Dr. Oz confirms, “This is the non-dress?”
Rose continues, “That was, like, I have never wore something like that before or since. That was literally a very, that was a political statement. That of course, there was no twitter at the time there was no way, or Instagram, there was no way to speak for yourself. So everyone was like. And I think it kind of happened to Miley Cyrus in a way. After like, whatever that was that they chastised her and shamed her and now suddenly she looks – she’s beautiful. But she looks different. Which is the real one? Which is her? And it’s very hard. I think of Miley Cyrus often, I know this is a tangent, but I think of the construct. And I think of her mind and I’m like wow how meta. She grew up playing a role where she was pretending to be someone else.”