“I have given enough,” the actress tweeted, while calling out the book chain over an incident at their Union Square location on Wednesday night.
Rose McGowan has called off upcoming public appearances for her book tour, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She is also asking for an apology from the manager of a New York City Barnes & Noble over a situation that happened during her first book signing on Wednesday night.
“I am canceling upcoming public appearances because I have given enough,” McGowan announced on Twitter. She claimed in a series of tweets that she was “verbally assaulted for two full minutes” by a woman who she says was an actor paid to engage with her.
During a signing and conversation about her memoir Brave at the Union Square Barnes & Noble, a transgender woman in the audience stood up and confronted McGowan about comments she had previously made about the trans community on a podcast with RuPaul. After a reportedly tense back and forth, the audience member was eventually escorted out of the store. Part of the exchange was captured on video.
“No one in that room did anything,” McGowan tweeted on Friday. Tagging Barnes & Noble, she wrote, “I would like an apology from the manager and all security people, and the audience, who did nothing and let the paid verbal assault of an assaulted woman happen. Cool?”
One night after the book event, McGowan headed uptown to a very different setting, where she was interviewed by journalist and friend Ronan Farrow before a packed audience at Manhattan’s 92Y. During the 90-minute sitdown, McGowan revealed a new statutory rape claim, and the pair discussed her difficult upbringing and the timeline of events from when she first decided to speak on the record about Harvey Weinstein, whom she alleges raped her in 1997.
During the conversation, McGowan mentioned the Barnes & Noble incident, connecting it to Farrow’s reporting in the The New Yorker that Weinstein had hired private investigators to discredit his accusers and journalists investigating claims against him.
She claimed that Weinstein is still “going after her,” and, though a few audience members laughed at the thought, McGowan very seriously told Farrow she believes she could be assassinated. “I know my life and I know my reality and I know that people like me get killed,” she said adamantly. (THR was in the audience.) “He’s been after me for a lot longer.”
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