Rose McGowan Slams Media for Reducing Her ‘Life’s Work to a Hotel Room Rape’

#AfterMeToo: “If I’d wanted to write a tell-all, I could have burnt the town down,” McGowan tells TheWrap

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Rose McGowan, the star of “Scream” and “Charmed,” says she refuses to let the media reduce her “life’s work to a hotel room rape” despite the spotlight placed on her harrowing accusations against disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein. 

The actress, who has become a leading figure in the #MeToo movement since she accused Weinstein of raping her at a Sundance Film Festival hotel in the late ’90s, told TheWrap that the last year had been marked by extreme highs and lows.

“I had not anticipated the American — and I stress American — press tour being as salacious and triggering as it was,” she said.

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