Rose McGowan is standing by Brendan Fraser after he said a former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president groped him during a luncheon in 2003.
“I love you, Brendan Fraser,” McGowan, who was one of the first women to come forward with allegations against Harvey Weinstein, tweeted on Friday. “You’ve always been a friend in my mind, too.”
She added, “We were hurt by predators protected by the bad machine. Shoot that arrow for all of us who hurt.”
In a recent GQ interview, Fraser, 49, claimed of Philip Berk: “He reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around.” Berk told GQ that Fraser’s version of the events is a “total fabrication.”
In the article, Fraser names McGowan, Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino as some of the women who inspired him to tell the story, which he previously kept quiet about for fear of damaging his career.
The HFPA launched an investigation into Berk on Friday.