Rose McGowan continued her attacks on her former Charmed costar Alyssa Milano with a fiery Instagram post on Thursday.
The 47-year-old actress and activist slammed Milano for dismissive comments she made about her in August of last year.
McGowan had previously accused her costar of being a ‘MeToo fraud,’ and she continued her assault on the Time’s Up organization in her latest post.
‘Time’s up’: Rose McGowan, 47, once again slammed her former Charmed costar Alyssa Milano, calling her a ‘MeToo fraud’ and a ‘lizard’ person in an Instagram post from Thursday
McGowan shared a clip from her Nightline appearance in January 2018 in which she lambasted Milano and appeared to accuse her of being complicit with abusers because of her connection to the talent agency Creative Artists Agency.
Milano’s husband Bugliari is a CAA agent, and McGowan claimed in her interview clip that the agency was ‘part of the pimp problem,’ after previously accusing the agency of enabling abusers in Hollywood.
‘Remember when Hollywood actresses & paid off activists wore stupid black dresses at the Oscars? That was sponsored by Times Up who were meant to help abuse victims?’ she wrote in her caption.
‘I told the world they are a lie 3+ years ago. I was mocked & harassed by so many who want to believe the illusion,’ she continued. ‘Wake up. Hard truths are inconvenient & uncomfortable. So what, suck it up. Milano, TimesUp, fake performatives and profiteers.’
Bomb thrower: McGowan shared a clip from her Nightline appearance in January 2018 in which she lambasted Milano and appeared to accuse her of being complicit with abusers because her husband is an agent with talent agency Creative Artists Agency
Falling out: McGowan has accused CAA of being ‘part of the pimp problem’ for allegedly supplying actors to accusers. She previously had a fiery Twitter back-and-forth with Milano in August 2020; Milano seen in 2019 in LA
She also referenced an August 2020 statement from Milano, calling it ‘gaslighting in full effect.’
‘She said of my truth telling, “Hurt people hurt people.” No, Alyssa, it’s lizard people like you, SDK Knickerbocker, Gov Cuomo, the Pres, Tina Chen [sic] who hurt people. Your time is up. Exit stage left.’
It’s unclear if the Grindhouse actress was calling Milano a ‘lizard’ person as a simple insult, or if she subscribes to the delusional conspiracy theory claiming that shape-shifting lizard people control society.
In her Instagram Stories, McGowan posted a screenshot of a private message with journalist Glenn Greenwald, in which he appeared to have sent her a tweet to a Washington Post article describing how members of the Times Up organization aided New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in his attempts to discredit a woman accusing him of sexual harassment.
Another tweet Greenwald had forwarded to McGowan read: ‘Rose McGowan was right. She was ostracized for it, but she called this from day one.’
Conspiracy theory? It’s unclear if the Grindhouse actress was calling Milano a ‘lizard’ person as a simple insult, or if she subscribes to the delusional conspiracy theory claiming that shape-shifting lizard people control society; seen in 2019 in Paris
Supporting her case: She also posted a DM from journalist Glenn Greenwald in which he sent her a Washington Post story about members of Time’s Up working to discredit a woman who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment
Back in August of 2020, McGowan and Milano had a very public falling out after McGowan called the Who’s The Boss actress a ‘fraud’ and accused her of hijacking the Me Too movement by supporting then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The actresses got into a bitter back-and-forth on Twitter, and McGown reserved special criticism for the Democratic Party, which she accused of doing nothing to help lift up minority communities and the poor.
McGowan had been a vocal critic of Biden after Tara Reade accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1993.
The actress began a string of tweets attacking the future president following his Democratic National Convention speech, in which he said then-President Donald Trump had ‘cloaked America in darkness for much too long.’
‘You are the season of darkness @JoeBiden @dnc. You are monsters. You are frauds. You are the lie,’ she wrote.
‘What have the Democrats done to solve ANYTHING? Help the poor? No. Help black & brown people? No. Stop police brutality? No. Help single mothers? No. Help children? No. You have achieved nothing. NOTHING. Why did people vote Trump? Because of you motherf**kers,’ she added in a follow-up tweet, despite the fact that Trump has been accused of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment by more than 25 women since the 1970s.
Going at it: In August of 2020, McGowan called Milano a ‘fraud’ and accused her of hijacking the Me Too movement by supporting then-presidential candidate Joe Biden
Firing back: The Who’s The Boss responded with a 26-tweet thread listing Democrats’ achievements
Milano, 47, responded to her costar’s posts with a 26-tweet thread of ‘all the things the Democratic Party has done to make the world a better place’, starting back in 1920.
She claimed Democrats ‘lead the way’ on issues of abortion, women’s rights, healthcare, racial justice and LGBTQ rights, before calling McGowan the true ‘fraud.’
McGowan responded, accusing Milano of hijacking the Me Too movement from its creator Tarana Burke and claiming her of creating a ‘toxic’ work environment on the set of Charmed with her diva-like behavior.
‘You stole #metoo (a brilliant communication tool, not a movement) from Tarana [Burke]. You co-opted my movement, the Cultural Reset, for fame, jealous of me for outing my rapist. You made 250k per week on Charmed,’ she began.
‘You threw a fit in front of the crew, yelling, ‘They don’t pay me enough to do this shit!’ Appalling behavior on the daily. I cried every time we got renewed because you made that set toxic AF. Now, get off my coattails you f**king fraud.’
Bad blood: McGowan claimed that Milano ‘threw a fit’ on the set of Charmed and acted like a diva; publicity still from Charmed with Holly Marie Combs (L)
In 2017, it was revealed that McGowan had received a $100,000 settlement from film producer and future convicted abuser Harvey Weinstein after accusing him of raping her her in 1997.
The actress also accused Sideways director Alexander Payne of statutory, claiming that he had sex with her when she was only 15 and he was in his late 20s.
She first describing the alleged event anonymously in a 2018 interview with Ronan Farrow, before accusing him by name in August 2020.
In a guest column for Deadline from September 2020, Payne claimed the two had had consensual sex after she was of legal age.
‘While I cannot allow false statements about events twenty-nine years ago to go uncorrected, I will continue to wish only the best for Rose,’ he concluded.