The former 'Charmed' star regrets staying in Hollywood and scraping meager jobs after being blackballed following sexual assault that involved once-powerful mogul Harvey Weinstein.
- May 9, 2020
AceShowbiz - Actress Rose McGowan wishes she'd left Hollywood long ago. The former "Charmed" star, 46, told Yahoo her newfound pursuits into activism have proven a relief from life in the acting industry and, as she prepares to venture into music with her debut album, "Planet 9", she said the career change has helped to "soothe" past traumas.
"It was my day job. I acquitted myself very well, but it wasn't the love of my life," she reflected. "I refused to give up who I was forever just to stay in a (Hollywood) system that I fundamentally disagree with, that I think is a cult. And then I get blacklisted after being sexually assaulted, and then what job are you doing to do?"
"Then it was like taking the dregs and scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get what (roles) I could. That's just a crap way to live. And it's not artistically where I live."
While she admitted to being "lonely as hell" for many years, the star, who has alleged she was raped by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, confessed she believes whatever path she'd taken in life, she'd have faced sexual abuse.
"I think it was always going to be that way. Weirdly enough, my whole life, I was deathly afraid of being sexually assaulted, as I think most women are. It's just a common fear, the guy coming in at night with a mask on his face. That's terrifying," Rose continued. "It's the Boogieman. But our 'Boogieman' is usually someone we know, even if it's just at a breakfast meeting, in my case, at 10 in the morning."
"I wish I had gotten out of Hollywood sooner," she concluded.
