Rose McGowan on see-through VMAs dress: ‘They slut-shamed me like crazy’

“I’m like, ‘Why did I do that?’ I’ve had to look at that,” she continued. “You know, when you do stuff sometimes on instinct and in a mood, like when a mood overtakes you on, you analyze what it was that brought you to that mood or that choice. So, I’ve certainly had a lot of time to analyze and I’m looking at the timeline. But I completely understand why I did what I did.”

As she’s shared in the past, McGowan — who was one of the first women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault — picked that particular dress to send a powerful message to the entertainment industry.

“It was my first big public appearance after being sexually assaulted,” the “Brave” author told Yahoo. “I just felt like, ‘Oh Hollywood, would you want a body just that you can use and throw away? Then I’ve got one for you!’ It was like at the end of ‘Gladiator’ when he comes out and he’s like, ‘Are you not entertained?'”

McGowan, who attended the award ceremony with her then-boyfriend Marilyn Manson, even adjusted her red carpet pose accordingly. “If you look at me, I did it with power. "I didn't do it with my hand on my hip to be sexy," she said.

"Most women dressing like this on the red carpet is a calculated, sexy move to turn people on. Mine was like, 'I'm going to fuck your brains out. I'm going to blow your brains out.' And no one had ever done that.