Actor Rose McGowan has depicted her affirmed assault by disgraced Hollywood magnate Harvey Weinstein in her new journals, Brave. Itemizing how she was supposedly sexually attacked by Weinstein – whom she calls the Monster in the book – after she was welcome to his inn suite for a gathering.
She composed how he held her down on a Jacuzzi and performed oral sex on her while he stroked off. The book was distributed on January 30 around the world.
“I felt so dirty. I had been so violated and I was sad to the core of my being. I kept thinking about how he’d been sitting behind me in the theater the night before it happened. Which made it – not my responsibility, exactly, but – like I had had a hand in tempting him,” she wrote. “Which made it even sicker and made me feel dirtier.” She says she met the Hollywood producer for the first time at a screening of her film Going All the Way during the 1997 Sundance film festival; she was 23 then.
McGowan said that quickly after the assault, she went to a photograph open door for Phantom, another Miramax film she was in, where she purportedly disclosed to Ben Affleck what happened. He apparently stated: “Goddamnit. I told him to stop doing that.” Affleck has not responded to this allegation.
A spokesperson for Weinstein in the US has said: “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein. Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.”