‘Charmed’actress says after 20 years, the story behind half-naked appearance on the red carpet: I was molested

Showbiz In 1998 hit Rose McGowan (45) everyone is stunned when they are as good as naked on the red carpet of the Video Music Awards of MTV appeared. Now, twenty years later, tells the actress in the magazine People that it was actually a statement because she has that day for the first time in public appeared after she was raped.

“I wore that outfit for a reason,” says the actress, who in the 90's, wildly popular by her starring role of Paige Matthews in " Charmed’. “It was my first public appearance since I have been raped. It felt a little like Russell Crowe ‘Gladiator’ in the arena comes and asks: Are you not entertained? Therefore, I have done that. It was my answer on the fact that I was molested.”

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McGowan, 25 years in 1998, wore that day a doorkijkjurk in which only her crotch was covered and made then for the moment of the award show. The actress was in that time together with showrocker Marylin Manson , with whom she between 1997 and 2001, had a relationship and even fiance.

McGowan was at the rise of the #metoo movement, one of the first women producer Harvey Weinstein openly abuse him. She told the beginning of 2018 that he has her in his hotel room had raped during the Sundance Film Festival in 1997.