Actress and Harvey Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan on Wednesday night blasted Hollywood for facilitating a “rape factory.”
Asked about Alyssa Milano, her former Charmed co-star and a #MeToo movement darling, McGowan didn’t hold back, suggesting Milano is merely helping to generate “good press” for an implicated Hollywood agency whom her husband works for.
“Your former Charmed co-star, Alyssa Milano, gets a lot of credit for helping ‘Me Too’ go viral,” Juju Chang said during an interview on ABC’s “Nightline.”
“So?” replied McGowan.
“Are you proud of her?” asked Chang.
“I don’t like her,” the 44-year-old replied, stone-faced. “‘Cause I think she’s a lie.”
McGowan then suggested Milano, whose husband works for massive Hollywood talent agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), is complicit in a cover-up of sorts concerning sexual harassment within the industry.
“Do you think I don’t know these people?” McGowan said. “I’m not looking at this from the outside. I have a lot of experience. I know [Milano is] married to a CAA agent. Do the math. Who’s behind Time’s Up? CAA. Where do they meet? CAA. Who needs good PR? CAA. Who are part of the pimp problem? CAA.”
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Milano released a statement to Nightline saying she supports McGowan.
“I am and always have been completely supportive of Rose and admire her bravery and speaking out about her experiences,” she said. “My goal throughout the past few months with both #MeToo and the TimesUp movement has been to use my platform to give others a voice so we can all work together to stamp out sexual harassment and sexual assault.”
But McGowan wasn’t finished with stating her views on Hollywood’s phony Feminist Royalty; she also took on actress Meryl Streep, whom she’s also called “a lie” in the past.
“It’s just more of, like, she’s the establishment,” McGowan said of Streep.
“Maybe she didn’t know. Maybe she lives in such a rarefied ether that she did not know,” she continued. “Maybe she lives in such a perfect world that she didn’t have to. But that’s not my world.”
“I think a lot of people just filed it under ‘he does stuff to women,'” she added.
McGowan says Weinstein raped her in January 1997. More than 90 women have come forward to accuse the producer and Democratic mega-donor of sexual misconduct.
Streep has claimed that she was unaware of the alleged rape. “What happened to Rose is unbearable. I have nothing but empathy and hope that she finds a way to heal. I really do,” she said.
Watch the interview, below: