‘No eye contact. Don’t stand too close.’ Me Too icon’s diva demands

AMERICAN actress and# Me too trail blazer Rose McGowan was one of the first women to accuse disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein of rape.

she has since been in Britain promoting her memoir-cum-manifesto, Brave, in which she launches a tirade against a male- dominated film industry that has used and abused her and thousands of women.

But some are now wondering whether the global attention has gone to her head.

Prior to her arrival at a London TV studio, staff were astonished to receive a phone call from her people making the following demands: ‘she must be met by someone of stature at reception. Don’t refer to her as a star — she knows this and sees no reason to have this brought up. No eye contact. No direct questions. Don’t stand too close.

‘Do not offer any refreshments or engage in any small talk. When departing you may thank her for her time, but only if she requests that conversation.’

the imperious checklist did not go down too well with the TV studio. ‘Let’s just say that Weinstein was far nicer when he came in,’ says my source. ‘Naturally, we took no notice.’

McGowan, 44, above, best known for her role in the TV series Charmed, later ended up walking out of an interview with a French broadcaster. she told the interviewer: ‘Your questions are dumb and reductive. Is this the best you can do. Really?’ In 1997, when McGowan was 23, she met Weinstein in his hotel suite during the sundance Film Festival in Utah. she says he stripped her and placed her in a Jacuzzi, whereupon he performed a sex act on her. ‘I did what so many who experience trauma do,’ she later wrote. ‘I disassociated and left my body.’ shortly afterwards she reached a £70,000 settlement with him over the incident. More recently, Weinstein — who denies all sex charges — allegedly offered her £700,000 hush money. she responded by asking for £4.2 million, reasoning that: ‘I could probably have gotten him up to just over £2 million.’