Oprah backs sick power structure for personal gain: Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan
Actor
American actor Rose McGowan spoke out against talk show host and producer Oprah Winfrey in a scathing tweet about tainted Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and hip-hop record producer Russell Simmons. The 47-year-old actor slammed Winfrey while posting a Twitter photo of the talk show host kissing on the cheek of convicted rapist Weinstein. As per E! News, the picture was taken at the 2014 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. Rose wrote alongside the photo, “I am glad more are seeing the ugly truth of @Oprah. I wish she were real, but she isn’t. From being pals with Weinstein to abandoning Russell Simmon’s [sic] victims, she is about backing a sick power structure for personal gain, she is as fake as they come. #lizard.” Rose, an early #MeToo activist, shared her opinion after one of Winfrey’s past interviews with Dolly Parton went viral over the weekend. Social media users discussed
Winfrey’s questions, including one in which she asked the country artiste, “You’ve been open that you’ve had some work done, some tucks and pulls and sucks.” Dolly jovially replied, “Yes, I have and I’ll have some more when I need them.” The two women also discussed Parton’s experience with depression, with the host saying that she heard Dolly went into a “huge depression” when she turned 40.
“That wasn’t cause I turned 40, it was cause I was fat and 40,” the Steel Magnolias actor joked, before adding, “I really had a lot of problems at that time, a lot of female problems. Just hormones... But I’m okay now, it was one of the best things to ever happen to me because it made me take inventory (sic).”
A Twitter user remarked, “I feel like Oprah wanted her to be embarrassed but ms dolly said nope (sic).” The clip sparked a discussion of Winfrey’s former ties to Weinstein and Simmons. Regarding her prior friendship with Weinstein, the talk-show host said she “didn’t know” about his alleged behaviour toward women.
I am glad more are seeing the ugly truth of @Oprah. I wish she were real, but she isn’t ...she is as fake as they come. #lizard. ROSE MCGOWAN,