After getting into a shocking shouting match with a transgender woman earlier this week, actress and activist Rose McGowan has cancelled all scheduled public appearances. The incident took place inside a New York City Barnes & Noble store where McGowan was participating in a speaking engagement as part of her Brave memoir promotional tour. As Fox News reports, the altercation began when the starlet was confronted by Andi Dier, a transgender woman in the audience who had a beef with some of McGowan's past comments about trans women.
The interaction between Rose McGowan and Dier was captured on video and has since gone viral; it features an irate Dier accusing the Jawbreaker actress of saying that trans women "are not like regular women." Dier was apparently referring to controversial comments made by McGowen during an podcast last year.
"Trans women are dying and you said that we, as trans women, are not like regular women. We get raped more often. We go through domestic violence more often. There was a trans woman killed here a few blocks (away)."In the interview between Rose McGowan and RuPaul, the actress claimed that trans women "hadn't developed as women," something that many have taken to mean that they simply didn't grow up living as females in a male-dominated world. McGowan went on to add that many of the complaints that trans women express are issues that biological females struggle with from childhood.
"That's not growing as a woman, that's not living in this world as a woman, and a lot of the stuff I hear trans complaining about, yeah, welcome to the world."During her Barnes & Noble verbal spat, Andi Dier verbally attacked McGowan inside the crowded bookstore, questioning the star's positive contributions to the trans community. McGowan responded by asking Dier what she had ever done for "women." In an escalating exchange, Rose McGowan repeatedly told Dier to "sit down" before the trans woman was escorted from the event.Even after Dier was removed, Rose McGowan stunned fans by continuing her increasingly profane outburst before moving forward with her speaking engagement.
"Don't label me, sister. Don't put your labels on me. Don't you f*****g do that!"On Thursday, McGowan turned to Twitter to announce that, after the debacle at her New York City event, she was canceling all public appearances for the foreseeable future. According to the actress' tweet, she has been "terrorized," and Andi Dier is an "actor paid to verbally assault" her. She also lamented the lack of assistance she received during the two-minute-long interaction.Following her announcement, Rose McGowan's fans and critics alike turned to social media to comment on her decision to withdraw from the public eye.
As News.com reports, Rose McGowan retweeted an allegation that Dier is not a trans hero, but rather a potential sexual predator who has allegedly been repeatedly accused of sexually assaulting several women when they were still in their teens. Dier has not publicly responded to McGowan's allegations.
In recent months, 44-year-old Rose McGowan has found herself dealing with the harsh glare of the media spotlight after coming out as one of the most outspoken critics of Harvey Weinstein, the larger-than-life Hollywood producer that has now been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by dozens of celebrity women.McGowan claims that she was raped by Weinstein in the late 1990s, an accusation that the producer has vehemently denied. Following her altercation with Dier, Rose McGowan claimed to believe that the trans woman who shook up her Barnes & Noble appearance was a "plant from Harvey Weinstein's camp." She also claimed that to be living in fear of "assassination" since coming forward with allegations against the Hollywood mogul.
"I know my life and I know my reality, and I know that people like me get killed."It is unknown when or if McGowan plans to resume her public appearance schedule.
