Rose McGowan is scared of what Harvey Weinstein might do to her

Rose McGowan may be happy about the verdict in convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein’s trial, and she may even be on a path to forgiving the man now that justice has been served. But right now she’s just terrified that he may try and exact his own brand of justice now that he’s in jail, and that justice may be directly targeted at her.In an interview with Good Morning Britain on February 25, McGowan—one of the first women to publicly accuse Weinstein of assault—explained that now that the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted and is facing up to 29 years in prison for third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual assault, she’s terrified he may hire a hitman to target her in retaliation.[video_embed id='1908500']RELATED: Harvey Weinstein rerouted from Rikers to a hospital following guilty verdict[/video_embed]“He very much came after me, he and his giant machine of other monsters — enablers, people that he paid to do dastardly things,” she said in the interview. “The other night, I have to be honest, I was sitting at home and I was thinking I should do the laundry and then I thought, ‘Oh, I wonder if he gets convicted if he’ll hire a hitman to kill me?' These are just casual thoughts of my life and that’s what’s so wrong and sick. And that’s why I fought so hard for this to stop.”

 

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Today we can exhale. The stinky trash is gone. Thank you to the brave women testifying who took it on the chin to get us over the finish line. Endlessly proud of them. Today the world is safer because he's not on the streets. Today the world is also smarter than it was pre-2017 (my personal goal was to use my story and my fight and my ambition to cause a massive Cultural Reset. I wanted to burn a system down, and so I did.) Did you know only 2% of rapes lead to conviction? How messed up is it that it's an insane privilege to see anything bad happen to your rapist, let alone them go to jail?! More work to be done for sure, but today I can say that due to the strengths of many, the prosecutor's tenacity, the jury who did better than most, and especially the women who took the stand, there is a Mønster off the streets. Love to you all who've shown me support along the way. Deeply appreciated. Goddamn, I can breathe. And maybe, just maybe, learn to hope again X RM

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McGowan claimed that the producer assaulted her in 1997 during the Sundance Film Festival, but she only broke her silence in 2016 when she tweeted that she’d been raped by an unnamed studio head. According to the actress, she didn’t press charges because a female attorney said that since she had done a sex scene in a movie, she would never win.“Today, today feels . . . I haven’t exhaled in so long,” she told The New Yorker shortly after Weinstein’s conviction earlier this week.In the Good Morning Britain interview McGowan went on to confess that she didn’t have a lot of hope that the 67-year-old would be convicted given the very nature of the system and Weinstein’s overall reach, but that the jury’s decision was “a huge victory for all of us who have ever been hurt.”“It’s a huge moment and it’s one, I have to honestly say, I thought he was going to be exonerated,” she added. “I realized, the last time I actually had hope was the moment before I was raped by him. After that it became survival and that it became this kind of battle in this huge war…it’s an extraordinary moment, it’s a watershed moment.”The actress and activist also said that the man “could be one of the biggest serial rapists in history,” and she referred to the “machine” of enablers set up behind-the-scenes as a “rape factory.”“It’s the kind of human-trafficking that goes on,” she added. “It goes on in Hollywood and the rest of the world… it’s in high levels of society and low societies.”While it’s clear from McGowan’s interview and the rest of the Time’s Up movement that there’s still more work to be done to ensure women feel safe not only in Hollywood, but in the rest of the world, here’s hoping that Weinstein potentially spending the rest of his life behind bars will lead to a little more peace and healing for the actress.\[video_embed id='1891878']RELATED: New film sparks conversation about the #MeToo movement[/video_embed]