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Rose McGowan said Harvey Weinstein offered her $1 million to sign a non-disclosure agreement to stay quiet about the movie mogul allegedly raping her.
The "Scream" star told The New York Times that a source close to the former Weinstein Company executive offered the money in September. Though the actress, also known for her role on WB series "Charmed," reached a settlement with Weinstein for $100,000 in 1997, she realized this past summer their agreement didn't include a confidentiality clause.
"I had all these people I'm paying telling me to take it so that I could fund my art," McGowan said. "I figured I could probably have gotten him up to three, but I was like, ew, gross. You're disgusting. I don't want your money, that would make me feel disgusting."
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View StoryThe actress told her lawyer to reject the new plea the day after The New York Times published its Weinstein exposé, which detailed about the Oscar-winning producer's alleged sexual harassment and abuse of women for decades. The article included seven other agreements he made with women to keep them quiet.
McGowan, an outspoken feminist and activist, often alluded to the fact that she was a rape survivor, but it wasn't until another report was published in the New Yorker that the actress named Weinstein as her assailant.
Weinstein's lawyer previously denied the more severe allegations from multiple women in a statement reading: "Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances."
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