Rose McGowan took to Twitter on Monday to speak out against the sexual harassment and assault she allegedly suffered from director Alexander Payne over thirty years ago.
Rose McGowan accuses again. Monday, August 17, 2020, the 46-year-old actress spoke out to reveal that she had been harassed and assaulted by director and screenwriter Alexander Payne. The facts would have occurred more than thirty years ago, in 1988, when the ex-star of the series “Charmed”, then freshly emancipated from her family, had just moved to Los Angeles. She was 15 and Alexander Payne was 27 at the time.
“I want him to recognize and apologize”
On Twitter, Rose McGowan recalled her experience with the man who is known for having notably directed the films “The Descendants” (for which he had obtained in 2012 the Oscar for best adapted screenplay) and “Nebraska”. “Alexander Payne. You made me sit down and showed me a soft porn movie you made under a pseudonym for Showtime. I still remember your apartment in Silver Lake. You are very well hung. You left me on a street corner afterwards. I was 15 years old, ”she wrote in a first message. “I just want him to recognize it and apologize.” I don’t want to destroy anything. Here I am at 15, ”she added in a second tweet.
Alexander Payne. You sat me down & played a soft-core porn movie you directed for Showtime under a different name. I still remember your apartment in Silverlake. You are very well-endowed. You left me on a street corner afterwards. I was 15. pic.twitter.com/mVqiN4S9NW
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) August 17, 2020
I just want an acknowledgement and an apology. I do not want to destroy. This was me at 15. pic.twitter.com/XeNpsrpY4s
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) August 17, 2020
This is not the first time that Alexander Payne has been singled out for inappropriate behavior. In 2017, following the birth of the #MeToo movement, the “Daily Beast“Recalled that in 2016, a screenwriter named Holly Hughs who worked on the set of his film” The Arrivist “(released in 1999 with Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick), had accused him of harassment, assault and brutality . She said she had been so traumatized by the experience that she had decided to quit the film industry. Alexander Payne had never reacted to his accusation.
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