Rose McGowan has opened up about being “betrayed” by fellow MeToo movement campaigner Asia Argento and referred to Harvey Weinstein as the “cult leader” of Hollywood. 
 
 McGowan was in London doing the rounds of breakfast television series including Piers Morgan-fronted Good Morning Britain and Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine show ahead of picking up the GQ Men of the Year Inspiration Award, becoming the first woman to receive the honor. 
 
 The Brave author said that she believed Argento was “lying” to her with regards to the actress’ relationship with Jimmy Bennett, the 17 year old she slept with when she was 37. 
 
 Speaking on GMB, McGowan said that “if we’re going to look for beauty in this really horrible situation” it shows that “boys have voices too”. She said that it was a “horrible situation” but that her own feelings are “very insignificant” and she expected there to be “due process”. 
 
 “MeToo is not just for women, I’ve had so many men share their stories of abuse, it’s never happened before in history and people are freaking out and trying to analyse and crunch the data, my response is to let it breathe, let people have their voice. If I feel like walking down the street naked, no one has the right to rape me. When I take my girlfriend, who is masculine presenting, to a gay club, often times she gets grabbed. Everybody has the sovereign right to their body,” she added. 
 
 The Scream star fought back against Morgan’s claim that some careers have been hit by false accusations. “I don’t know if we know if careers are over because it’s been such a short period of time…The hell you go through just to speak truth really whittles down the false accusations. You can cut off the rot and let the good people come up. All we need to do is to have a collective conversation.” 
 
 She also admitted fearing for her health in the long-term, particularly as a result of the stress levels and called the last two years “mindbending”. 
 
 Later in the morning, McGowan went on Jeremy Vine’s new Channel 5 discussion show to talk about similar topics. She said that a lot of people who have been hurt by sexual harassment “don’t understand that they are not to blame” and remarked that Harvey Weinstein was the “cult leader” of Hollywood. 
 
 But she added, “I was never really in love with Hollywood, for me it was my day job, I’m an artist in full and always been a writer and now a filmmaker and a producer and singing on an album that I’ve been creating for the past three years, while for the past four years pushing against Hollywood and societal constructs and pushing back at the rules we’re all meant to follow. What are they going to do, put me in time out celebrity jail? It’s absurd.” ||||| Rose McGowan, the actress whose allegation that she was raped by Harvey Weinstein helped open the Hollywood sexual-abuse and harassment scandal floodgates, has sharply criticized the involvement of one of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies, CAA, in the Time’s Up initiative. 
 
 In an angry tweet Tuesday morning, the actress accused CAA of being a “company of pimps that sent so many into the monster’s lair,” along with a picture of a flier for “Time’s Up gathering” being held simultaneously at three offices of CAA tomorrow: in London, New York, and Los Angeles. 
 
 The tweet—and the avalanche of both highly critical and hugely supportive responses it inspired—is another sign of a split that has emerged between McGowan and advocates loyal to her—the #RoseArmy—and the larger Time’s Up movement, which would arguably not have come into existence had it not been for McGowan’s revelations. 
 
 The role of agents as enablers of the sexual abuse of actors, and the troubling question of how much they knew, was examined in a recent Vanity Fair piece, which detailed, for example, how Tamara Holder, a Fox News contributor, was urged to keep quiet by her agent after a senior executive tried to force her to perform oral sex on him. 
 
 Holder has criticized as hypocrisy the involvement of Hollywood agencies in the Time’s Up campaign. 
 
 Other actresses have suggested that they think their agencies acted rashly by sending them to private meetings with powerful men. Speaking to The New York Times, Gwyneth Paltrow described heading to a meeting with Harvey Weinstein at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel early on in her career. 
 
 She made it clear that she thought she would be safe at the meeting because her agency CAA had sent her. “It’s on the fax, it’s from CAA,” she told the Times, referring to her schedule that day. 
 
 The meeting ended with Weinstein placing his hands on her and suggesting they head to the bedroom for massages, she said. 
 
 “I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she said in an interview. 
 
 She refused his advances, she said, and confided in Brad Pitt, her boyfriend at the time. Pitt confronted Weinstein, and soon after, the producer allegedly warned her not to tell anyone else of the incident. 
 
 “I thought he was going to fire me,” she said. 
 
 Today’s tweet comes after McGowan was highly critical both of the Hollywood agencies who she claims “are guilty of human trafficking” for allegedly sending actresses to meet Weinstein, and of the actresses who wore black to the Golden Globes ceremony Sunday night, dismissing their gesture as a stunt and “Hollywood fakery.” After all, many of Weinstein’s most vocal accusers, including McGowan, Asia Argento, Mira Sorvino, and Rosanna Arquette, were reportedly not invited to the Golden Globes despite its #MeToo theme. 
 
 McGowan previously had a Twitter dispute with Amber Tamblyn after they disagreed over the plan by actresses to wear black to the Golden Globes, with McGowan suggesting that Meryl Streep and other actresses whom she believed knew about Weinstein all wear Marchesa to the event, the label run by Weinstein’s estranged wife Georgina Chapman. 
 
 She subsequently pulled back from the remark, saying: “The Marchesa line was beneath me and I’m sorry for that... There is no map for this road I’m on, I will fuck up. Peace be with you, go with Goddess.” ||||| Responding to repeated Tweets from Rose McGowan that called her a hypocrite for planning to wear black at the Academy Awards to show unity with women who have been sexually assaulted and abused, actress Meryl Streep just sent out a public statement telling McGowan that they are actually on the same side “standing in defiance of the same implacable foe.” 
 
 McGowan’s series of tweets over the weekend also took Streep to task for calling disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein’s behavior “disgraceful” instead of calling it “a crime” and for remaining silent and continuing to work for the man. Streep won a Best Actress Oscar for The Iron Lady which was a film from The Weinstein Co. She also worked on TWC’s August Osage County. The three-time Oscar winner said she wasn’t “deliberately silent” but did not even know of Weinstein’s behavior. 
 
 Here is Streep’s statement in full: 
 
 “It hurt to be attacked by Rose McGowan in banner headlines this weekend, but I want to let her know I did not know about Weinstein’s crimes, not in the 90s when he attacked her, or through subsequent decades when he proceeded to attack others. 
 
 I wasn’t deliberately silent. I didn’t know. I don’t tacitly approve of rape. I didn’t know. I don’t like young women being assaulted. I didn’t know this was happening. 
 
 I don’t know where Harvey lives, nor has he ever been to my home. 
 
 I have never in my life been invited to his hotel room. 
 
 I have been to his office once, for a meeting with Wes Craven for “Music of the Heart” in 1998. 
 
 HW distributed movies I made with other people. 
 
 HW was not a filmmaker; he was often a producer, primarily a marketer of films made by other people- some of them great, some not great. But not every actor, actress, and director who made films that HW distributed knew he abused women, or that he raped Rose in the 90s, other women before and others after, until they told us. We did not know that womens’ silence was purchased by him and his enablers. 
 
 HW needed us not to know this, because our association with him bought him credibility, an ability to lure young, aspiring women into circumstances where they would be hurt. 
 
 He needed me much more than I needed him and he made sure I didn’t know. Apparently he hired ex Mossad operators to protect this information from becoming public. Rose and the scores of other victims of these powerful, moneyed, ruthless men face an adversary for whom Winning, at any and all costs, is the only acceptable outcome. That’s why a legal defense fund for victims is currently being assembled to which hundreds of good hearted people in our business will contribute, to bring down the bastards, and help victims fight this scourge within. 
 
 Rose assumed and broadcast something untrue about me, and I wanted to let her know the truth. Through friends who know her, I got my home phone number to her the minute I read the headlines. I sat by that phone all day yesterday and this morning, hoping to express both my deep respect for her and others’ bravery in exposing the monsters among us, and my sympathy for the untold, ongoing pain she suffers. No one can bring back what entitled bosses like Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, and HW took from the women who endured attacks on their bodies and their ability to make a living.. And I hoped that she would give me a hearing. She did not, but I hope she reads this. 
 
 I am truly sorry she sees me as an adversary, because we are both, together with all the women in our business, standing in defiance of the same implacable foe: a status quo that wants so badly to return to the bad old days, the old ways where women were used, abused and refused entry into the decision-making, top levels of the industry. That’s where the cover-ups convene. Those rooms must be disinfected, and integrated, before anything even begins to change.” ||||| Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) 
 
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 Rose McGowan and Asia Argento accused Harvey Weinstein of rape, which acted as a catalyst for the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements — but they, like Marchesa gowns, were conspicuously absent from the 2018 Golden Globes. 
 
 The women, along with several of Weinstein’s other accusers, claim they weren’t invited to the event. 
 
 “I can only speak for myself but not only I wasn’t invited to the #GoldenGlobes: nobody asked my opinion about #TIMESUP or to sign the letter,” Argento, 42, tweeted Monday morning. “I support @TIMESUPNOW even though I was excluded from it. Guess I am not POWERFUL or HOLLYWOOD enough. Proud to work behind the scenes.” 
 
 On Sunday, Argento tweeted to McGowan, “No one should forget that you were the first one who broke the silence. Anyone who tries to diminish your work is a troll and an enemy of the movement. You gave me the courage to speak out. I am on your side until I die.” 
 
 McGowan, 44, replied, “And not one of those fancy people wearing black to honor our rapes would have lifted a finger had it not been so. I have no time for Hollywood fakery, but you I love, @AsiaArgento.” 
 
 Rosanna Arquette, who accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct, tweeted to a follower, “No we weren’t invited. Annabella [Sciorra], Daryl [Hannah], Mira [Sorvino] … none of us were.” 
 
 Arquette’s sister, Oscar winner Patricia Arquette, replied, “That’s not cool-All of you should have been included. I wasn’t asked either but who cares! It’s great they are doing it & we will too!” 
 
 Sorvino — who accused Weinstein of not only harassing her, but of blacklisting her from the industry for rejecting his advances — thanked Patricia and Sciorra for their activism, writing, “Love you dear heart @PattyArquette, and all my sisters in this fight! Special shout out to my shining friend @AnnabellSciorra whose continued bravery and honesty is contagious and inspiring.” 
 
 Argento had a bit more pessimistic opinion of the omission. 
 
 “It would have been too much of a downer… an embarrassment,” she wrote. “Victims aren’t glamorous enough.” 
 
 Reps for the actresses did not immediately return requests for comment on whether they were, in fact, invited to the Globes. ||||| Meryl Streep has expressed her disappointment at being slammed by fellow actress Rose McGowan for “happily working with the pig monster,” in reference to producer Harvey Weinstein, who McGowan has alleged raped her. 
 
 On Saturday, McGowan took to Twitter to share her thoughts about reports that actresses including Streep and Jessica Chastain plan to protest sexual harassment by wearing black to the upcoming Golden Globe Awards. McGowan declared the idea a “silent protest.” 
 
 “YOUR SILENCE is THE problem," McGowan wrote in a post that has since been deleted. "You’ll accept a fake award breathlessly & affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy.” 
 
 In a statement released to ET on Monday, Streep said she was “hurt to be attacked by” McGowan and insisted she knew nothing about Weinstein’s bad reputation. 
 
 “I did not know about Weinstein’s crimes, not in the 90s when he attacked her, or through subsequent decades when he proceeded to attack others,” Streep said. “I wasn’t deliberately silent. I didn’t know. I don’t tacitly approve of rape. I didn’t know. I don’t like young women being assaulted. I didn’t know this was happening.” 
 
 Streep added that she had only visited Weinstein’s office one time in 1998 for a meeting with director Wes Craven for Music of the Heart, and that she had “never in my life been invited to his hotel room.” 
 
 She also pointed out that Weinstein was more of a producer and marketer of movies, rather than a filmmaker, meaning that not every actor associated with him knew details about his personal life. 
 
 Streep went on to share her hopes that a legal defense fund for harassment victims would help “bring down the bastards,” and revealed that she had attempted to reach out to McGowan, but heard nothing from the actress. 
 
 “Rose assumed and broadcast something untrue about me, and I wanted to let her know the truth," Streep said. “Through friends who know her, I got my home phone number to her the minute I read the headlines. I sat by that phone all day yesterday and this morning, hoping to express both my deep respect for her and others’ bravery in exposing the monsters among us, and my sympathy for the untold, ongoing pain she suffers.” 
 
 “And, I hoped that she would give me a hearing,” she continued. “She did not, but I hope she reads this. I am truly sorry she sees me as an adversary, because we are both, together with all the women in our business, standing in defiance of the same implacable foe: a status quo that wants so badly to return to the bad old days -- the old ways where women were used, abused and refused entry into the decision-making, top levels of the industry. That’s where the cover-ups convene. Those rooms must be disinfected, and integrated, before anything even begins to change.” 
 
 After Streep’s statement was released, McGowan tweeted again, this time apologizing for at her dig at Weinstein’s estranged wife’s fashion line, Marchesa. She has made no further mention of Streep, but deleted the tweet that mentioned the Oscar winner. 
 
 The Marchesa line was beneath me and I’m sorry for that. Seeing that picture of Alyssa Milano with GC has ignited something in me that I can’t quite articulate. There is no map for this road I’m on, I will fuck up. Peace be with you, go with Goddess. — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) December 18, 2017 
 
 McGowan is one of more than 50 women who have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct in recent months. He has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex. 
 
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