Rose McGowan denies she called the #MeToo movement ‘a lie’ in a recent interview

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• Rose McGowan has clarified on Twitter an interview she did
  with UK’s Sunday Times Magazine, in which she’s quoted saying the
  #MeToo Movement is “bull—-” and “a lie.”
• “I never said #MeToo is a lie. Ever. I was talking about
  Hollywood and Time’s Up,” the actress tweeted on Sunday.

Following an interview in which Rose McGowan is quoted as saying
that the #MeToo movement is “bull—-” and “a lie,” the actress,
who has been one of the loudest voices of the movement, has taken
to Twitter to clarify her comments. 

On the same day that an interview with McGowan ran in the
UK’s Sunday Times Magazine, in
which her disparaging comments about #MeToo are included, the
actress tweeted on Sunday that she is still very much a supporter
of the movement. 

“I never said #MeToo is a lie. Ever. I was talking about
Hollywood and Time’s Up,” the actress tweeted, referring to the
movement against sexual harassment formed by celebrities in
response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the revelations that
followed from #MeToo.

McGowan then followed that with two brief video tweets, again,
praising #MeToo.

“#MeToo is important, it’s honest, and it’s our experience. It is
not a lie,” she said in the first video.

Followed by another where she said, “For some reason there are
people in the media who 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.”

In the Sunday Times Magazine story, McGowan is quoted as saying
that she felt those in Hollywood who supported #MeToo were not
supporting her. 

“I just think they’re douchebags,” 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 a GQ Man of the Year award and no
women’s magazines and no women’s organizations have supported
me?”

McGowan also claimed in the interview that she has been excluded
from “MeToo campaign lunches” and “survivor brunches.”

“And I don’t want to go, because it’s all bull—,” she
said. “It’s a lie. It’s a Band-Aid lie to make them feel better.
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.”

McGowan also added that it’s “literally impossible” that Meryl
Streep didn’t know about the allegations against Weinstein before
they went public, as Streep has claimed. She also said in the
interview that she doesn’t plan on acting anymore, stating that
the film industry is a “disgusting” world.

Read the Sunday Times Magazine
interview here.