Fans took to social media to decry Rose McGowan’s first Instagram post since the death of her former manager Jill Messick.
The 44-year-old actress shared a selfie from January’s Digital-Life-Design Conference where she was honored with an Impact Award for using her voice to speak out against sexual assault and harassment.
But followers were quick to note that McGowan’s first interaction on social media failed to recognize the recent suicide of her former manager who represented the starlet during the time Rose alleged Harvey Weinstein raped her.
Interesting: Rose McGowan shared a selfie from January’s Digital-Life-Design Conference where she was honored with an Impact Award for using her voice to speak out against sexual assault and harassment
Rose captioned the photo from the January 2018 conference in Munich, ‘@dldconference still remembering this day with so much love. Thank you for honoring me for what I do for all women.’
One Twitter user quickly responded to the photo, saying, ‘What do you do for all women? You’re endangering a movement for me and all women. You’ve taken a hammer to #metoo.’
Ashley Paulman continued, ‘Rose is at the helm of her own cis white feminism– selfish, self important, and she has publicly tormented victims.
Sad: Followers were quick to note that McGowan’s first interaction on social media failed to recognize the recent suicide of her former manager who represented the starlet during the time Rose alleged Harvey Weinstein raped her
Tough: Ashley Paulman continued, ‘Rose is at the helm of her own cis white feminism– selfish, self important, and she has publicly tormented victims.
‘Today she pats herself on the back for “what [she’s] done for all women” and says 0 about Jill. Harmful, uncaring narcissism not to be confused with #metoo.
The family of Messick, age 50, released a statement on Thursday confirming that the studio head had died from suicide.
Messick’s family revealed the executive had suffered privately from depression and at least one manic episode, in an essay that was intensely critical of Weinstein, McGowan and the press, saying their loved one ‘became collateral damage in an already horrific story.’
‘Is this the first thing that you felt when you heard of your former manager taking her life and her family blaming among others your own contempt against Jill? “honoring me”?
Twitter: Another follower wrote, ‘Of course this is all about you. No decency at all’ followed by the hashtag #JillMessick
One Twitter user wrote, ‘Is this the first thing that you felt when you heard of your former manager taking her life and her family blaming among others your own contempt against Jill? “honoring me”?’
Another follower wrote, ‘Of course this is all about you. No decency at all’ followed by the hashtag #JillMessick.
Messick was the manager who set up McGowan’s now-infamous meeting with Weinstein, at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, where McGowan alleges Weinstein raped her.
When McGowan was previously asked if she told anyone about her alleged assault, specifically her manager, McGowan said: ‘Yes, but she got a job with him for seven years right afterwards’ referencing the job Messick took at Miramax as vice president for development.
Messick was the manager who set up McGowan’s now-infamous meeting with Weinstein, at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, where McGowan alleges Weinstein raped her; seen in 2007