Instead, she rebelled and asserted her true identity and voice. Hollywood expected Rose to be silent and cooperative and to stay the path. The Hollywood machine packaged her as a sexualized bombshell, hijacking her image and identity and marketing them for profit. Every detail of her personal life became public, and the realities of an inherently sexist industry emerged with every script, role, public appearance, and magazine cover. Rose escaped into the world of her mind, something she had done as a child, and into high-profile relationships.

In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualization.

Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood. It’s a call to arms-not just against the specific men who mistreated McGowan and the men and women who enabled that mistreatment, but against an industry.'-The Boston Globe

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - As featured in Ronan Farrow's CATCH AND KILL and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's SHE SAID

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