Alexander Payne has denied sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him by actress Rose McGowan. McGowan recently accused Payne of statutory rape and showing her soft-core porn when she was 15.In a guest column for Deadline, Payne said he had “cordial interactions” with McGowan and commended her activism in the #MeToo movement, but denied her timeline of events.
Based on McGowan’s age, the incident she described would have occurred in the late ’80s, a time when Payne says he was studying at UCLA.“What she has said about me in recent social media posts is simply untrue,” Payne wrote. “Rose is mistaken in saying we met when she was fifteen, in the late 1980s.
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