Rose McGowan lashed out at her former Charmed co-star Alyssa Milano this week for her enduring friendship with Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife.
McGowan, who was led the commentary on Weinstein’s alleged abuse of countless women and claims to have bee victimized by the mogul himself, told Milano on Twitter that she made her want to ‘vomit’.
‘You make me want to vomit. You actually gave me a body flashback. Well done, fake one,’ she wrote.
The remark was in reference to Milano’s comments about Weinstein’s estranged wife Georgina Chapman earlier in the week.
Milano, who herself is an advocate for the Me Too movement, appeared on Megyn Kelly Today and was asked how Chapman, 41, was faring in the wake of the scandal.
Rose McGowan lashed out at her Charmed co-star Alyssa Milano on Thursday for her kind words towards Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein’s estranged wife, earlier in the week
McGowan and Milano (pictured in 2007) appeared on Charmed together from 1998 until 2006
Before answering Kelly’s question, she made a point of signalling her friendship with McGowan too.
‘I am,’ she said, in reference to the host’s remark that she and Chapman were friends.
‘I am also very good friends with Rose McGowan, my co-star on Charmed for five years,’ she said.
Milano then went on to say while Chapman was doing ‘very well’, she has ‘very dark times’.
‘Georgina is doing very well. She’s an amazing mother, she’s an amazing woman and I think her priority right now is focusing on how to raise those two children to the best of her capacity given the situation.
‘She goes through very dark times, she’s very sad. This is not easy for her.
‘But I have no doubt that not only will she come out on the other side of it but she deserves to, she is a good woman,’ she said.
Chapman left Weinstein after the first allegations against him emerged in a New York Times report in October.
‘A good woman’: Milano said earlier in the week that Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein’s estranged wife, was an ‘amazing mother’ who was doing ‘very well’ despite the revelations against her husband
On Tuesday, Milano appeared on Megyn Kelly Today where she described both McGowan and Chapman as friends
McGowan claims Weinstein raped her in 1997. At the time, she accepted a settlement from him but spoke out in October as dozens of other women came forward with allegations. She is pictured with the mogul in 2007
At the time, she said she was ‘heartbroken’ for the women who had suffered under her husband but gave no indication of whether their claims came as a shock to her.
‘My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband.
‘Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time,’ she said in a statement.
McGowan, 44, who took a settlement from Weinstein after alleging that he raped her in 1997, does not adopt the same sympathetic view of the mogul’s wife as her co-star.
She claims Chapman was complicit in her husband’s alleged bullying of Hollywood stars who say he forced them to wear her Marchesa designs on the red carpet.
Marchesa was founded in 2004, the same year she and Weinstein met.
McGowan carried on her crusade against Chapman by taking aim at her fashion label Marchesa
Chapman’s fashion label was founded in 2004, the same year she met Weinstein. It quickly became successful thanks to the famous actresses who would wear her designs on the red carpet
It was funded by the multi-millionaire movie mogul and enjoyed instant success, the likes of which most infant labels can only dream of, thanks to a handful of actresses who boosted its profile by wearing some of its earliest garments to premieres and events.
McGowan harkened back to this seemingly overnight success on Twitter as she blasted Chapman this week.
She retweeted the following remarks from another user: ‘I’m saying Georgina Chapman’s company was 100% funded by Weinstein money. No one knew who she was in the fashion world before she married him.
‘I’m saying Weinstein bullied abused women to wear his wife’s clothing line. She knew who and what she married and why.’
Milano, an advocate of the MeToo movement, spent the rest of her week discussing the topic. She is pictured on Friday with Anita Hill and Fatima Gross Graves at an event in Beverly Hills
McGowan then went further and told Milano and Chapman to ‘call up Camille Cosby’, the wife of of alleged serial abuser Bill Cosby who has always denied the allegations against him despite several women coming forward to say he drugged and sexually assaulted them.
Milano has not responded to her claims. She has spent the last week advocating on behalf of sexual abuse sufferers.
On Friday, she attended an event to hear Anita Hill, the law professor who accused Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual assault in 1991, relive her fight to bring him to justice.
Milano and McGowan starred together on Charmed from 1998 to 2006.