“We got you,” she told NBC’s Megyn Kelly when asked what she’d like to say to him now. McGowan repeated the words in a follow-up tweet.
We got you, Harvey Weinstein, we got you
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) May 25, 2018
Weinstein, who posted $1 million bail and has been fitted with a tracking device, will plead not guilty to the charges that he raped a woman and forced another to perform oral sex, according to his lawyers.
McGowan later told NPR she would like to take the stand and testify against Weinstein.
“I would like to have the opportunity to be able to sit right across from him and stare directly in the eye, but not in any way with the camera around me. And no evening gowns.”
She told “Good Morning America” that she didn’t think she’d see the day that Weinstein would be wearing handcuffs. “I have a visceral need for him to have handcuffs on,” she said.
McGowan describes an encounter she had with Weinstein at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997 as rape. She was one of the first women, and consistently one of the most vocal, to go public with allegations against him.
Prior to Weinstein’s arrest, McGowan tweeted a warning against disappointment in “fallen idols”.
Hi everyone, I know your idols are falling, I know it hurts to be disappointed, but imagine if that person you thought you knew from his image sexually harassed you. Stay the course, we will be better for this societally. The conversation must be had. #MorganFreeman
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) May 24, 2018
The Time’s Up Twitter account tweeted that they looked forward to seeing justice prevail.
Harvey Weinstein shattered the lives of an untold number of women. We stand with them, and remain in solidarity with women everywhere who have faced unsafe and abusive workplaces. We look forward to seeing justice prevail. (2/2)
— TIME’S UP (@TIMESUPNOW) May 25, 2018
Asia Argento asked, “What took you so long Harvey?”
What took you so long Harvey? pic.twitter.com/MUFB34fWai
— Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) May 25, 2018
She told USA Today that Friday marked the day Weinstein, “will take his first step on his inevitable descent to hell.”
“We, the women, finally have real hope for justice.”
Argento later added his much-publicised walk in handcuffs will now be the only movie he is remembered for.
Meanwhile, one of the journalists to break the Weinstein story, Jodi Kantor, commented on the fact it was a female detective leading Weinstein around in handcuffs.
One of the symbols of the day: this female detective leading Harvey Weinstein around in handcuffs. pic.twitter.com/3lU03pWv1b
— jodikantor (@jodikantor) May 25, 2018
She tweeted that she’s received a broad mix of reactions to the news from Weinstein victims, including relief, joy, and even one victim throwing up.
Reactions I heard today from Weinstein victims:
Tears of relief.
Tears of irreparable loss.
Outright joy.
Nausea. (One victim told me she threw up.)The common denominator: trouble sleeping last night. pic.twitter.com/7Re7GelkQC
— jodikantor (@jodikantor) May 25, 2018
We’re in the courtroom waiting for Weinstein. For so long he had his own private system— fancy lawyers who paid to silence women, private investigators and spies. Now he answers to the same system as the rest of us. pic.twitter.com/ajxYCwhATw
— jodikantor (@jodikantor) May 25, 2018
Cynthia Burr, who has accused Weinstein of forced oral sex, said that Weinstein is now experiencing the things he put so many women through. ““Humiliation, worthlessness, fear, weakness, aloneness, loss, suffering and embarrassment. And it’s only the beginning for him.”