Citizen Rose’ stars an imperfect victim
Rose McGowan is a victim people love to hate. The actress and survivor-activist is vengeful, and she won’t play nice.“I wish I had more middle fingers,” McGowan says in a trailer for “Citizen Rose,” a five-part documentary debuting Jan. 30 on E!. It follows the actress as she advocates for sexual assault survivors and features moments of McGowan with journalist Ronan Farrow, who helped break the Harvey Weinstein story, and Tarana Burke, the original creator of the “Me Too” campaign.
The docu-series premiere coincides with the release of McGowan’s memoir, “Brave,” and she has been criticized for selfishly capitalizing off the momentum of the #MeToo movement.McGowan hears the criticism, but she always bites back.
“FYI: Not turning #MeToo into a show. “I have been shooting footage for my documentary for three years. … And I have been working on my whistleblowing and taking the motherf — king monster down for 20 years. Now do you get it?”
McGowan’s defiance makes others uneasy. When Hollywood actresses rallied, wearing black to the 75th Golden Globe Awards to protest sexual violence in the film industry, “I despise your hypocrisy.” The tweet has since been deleted, but the sentiment remains in social media posts. She continues to malign stars she claims “happily worked for the Pig Monster,” her nickname for the man she says raped her, defamed film producer Harvey Weinstein.
After actor Ben Affleck denied knowing she was raped by Weinstein, McGowan tweeted in response, “YOU ALL KNEW.” She uses social media as a weapon, targeting celebs she describes as complicit. Her Twitter account was suspended last year for violating the social media company’s terms of service.
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