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Rose McGowan

The former actor, who publicly accused Harvey Weinstein of rape (which he denies), talks about her new book, her activism and the cult of Hollywood

When did you start writing Brave? Three years ago, but in a lot of ways I’d been formulating it my whole life.

How did the cascade of accusations against the person you call “the Monster” change what happened with the book? I am one of the people that started that process, behind the scenes, a lot earlier. While I was writing this book, I was

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