On Friday, Payne, 59,responded to the allegationsin a guest column written for Deadline.
“However, what she has said about me in recent social media posts is simply untrue.”
“Rose is mistaken in saying we met when she was fifteen, in the late 1980s.
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This would have been impossible, since I had never directed anything professionally, lurid or otherwise.
I have also never worked for Showtime or directed under any name other than my own.”
We later went out on a couple of dates and remained on friendly terms for years."
McGowan, 46,tweetedin August, “Alexander Payne.
You sat me down & played a soft-core porn movie you directed for Showtime under a different name.
I still remember your apartment in Silverlake.
You are very well-endowed.
You left me on a street corner afterward.
I was 15.”
I do not want to destroy.
This was me at 15."
However, in light of his denial, her feelings have changed on the matter.
I said I didnt want to destroy, now I do.
Why do these men always lie?
I will now make it a mission to expose him.
I am not the only one."
I want people to know Hollywood perpetrators show you who they are, their skewed view normalized.
