00:00It was very hurtful.
00:02Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're looking at the most heartbreaking
00:06instances of Tinseltown turning on its brightest women.
00:09The main thing that people became fascinated with was her sort of unraveling.
00:15Rose McGowan. The charmed actress was one of the first women in Hollywood
00:20to kickstart the hashtag Me Too movement.
00:22Casting couch, that's a nice little euphemism.
00:25She spoke out against now disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein,
00:28accusing him of sexual misconduct and was one of Time's silence breakers in 2017.
00:34In 2019, Rose claimed Weinstein had gone to diabolical lengths to smear her name
00:40and even hired private investigators from an organization called Black Cube to silence her.
00:46I think them coming after me spun my brain and still does
00:50in a way that's fractured a part of me that I don't think will ever fix.
00:54Not only did his reps try to buy out journalists, she alleged,
00:58but also did all they could to depict her as a publicity seeker looking for money.
01:03We are free, we are beautiful, we are strong, and you will never take that from us.
01:09Some media outlets even portrayed her as a woman out to destroy her male peers' careers
01:15when she accused Alexander Payne of sexually assaulting her as a minor.
01:19Katherine Heigl. From almost America's sweetheart to the most hated woman in Hollywood,
01:24this actress's career has been anything but easy.
01:27And just recently there was a Facebook Q&A. Someone asked you,
01:30I've heard rumors that you're very rude. What's your thoughts? And to your credit,
01:35you addressed it. You took on the question. What did you say?
01:38Good Lord, what did I say?
01:40Hollywood despised how she was openly critical of the industry she was in.
01:44She called Knocked Up sexist and spoke out against
01:47the cruel and mean working hours on the set of Grey's Anatomy.
01:50She was also publicly shamed for quitting contract negotiations with ABC
01:54over her pay for the show in 2007.
01:57Then she got hate for not submitting her work to the 2008 Emmys because she wasn't proud of it.
02:03There was a part of me that thought, because I had won the year before,
02:06that I needed juicy, dramatic, emotional material, and I just didn't have that that season.
02:11Eventually, as her difficult reputation worsened, her films started to tank at the box office.
02:17For a hot minute, the system succeeded in dimming her shine.
02:20Thankfully, that's not the case anymore.
02:23I'm a goddamn legend in the making.
02:25That's right you are.
02:27Angelina Jolie. Although highly praised for her acting skills,
02:30the maleficent actress has long been the subject of public scrutiny concerning her love life.
02:36You're not welcome here.
02:37Oh, dear. What an awkward situation.
02:51First, it was her short-lived marriage to Johnny Lee Miller,
02:54whom she almost ditched for actress Jenny Shimizu.
02:57Then she tied the knot with Billy Bob Thornton while he was engaged to Laura Dern.
03:02The biggest homewrecker accusation came when she got together with Brad Pitt.
03:07He apparently divorced Jennifer Aniston after falling in love with Jolie
03:10on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
03:12You think this story's gonna have a happy ending?
03:14Happy endings are stories that haven't finished yet.
03:17That marriage ended in an acrimonious divorce,
03:20involving accusations of child mistreatment against Brad, which he was cleared of.
03:25Regardless of what went on behind the scenes,
03:28Angelina was ripped to shreds and dubbed manipulative by the media.
03:32I think the mistake is the idea that there's a real side and a not real side,
03:35or a true side or a not true side. I think we just have many, many sides.
03:38Mira Sorvino
03:40This Oscar-winning actress is another one of Harvey Weinstein's victims
03:44who spoke out against him in 2017.
03:46She recalled being sexually harassed by him.
03:49It's a travesty that this sort of behavior
03:52is normalized and accepted for decades in this industry,
03:56and I am very pleased that this is all coming to light.
04:00Sorvino lived in fear for years afterwards,
04:03lest she be blacklisted for being a whistleblower.
04:06Months later, filmmaker Peter Jackson came forward to reveal that Weinstein's company,
04:11Miramax, directly influenced his casting for The Lord of the Rings trilogy,
04:15under New Line Cinema.
04:17While he had initially considered Sorvino for a role,
04:20Miramax had destroyed her reputation and convinced them to steer clear of her.
04:24When Sorvino discovered this truth,
04:26she said it only confirmed her suspicions, leaving her heartsick.
04:30Jackson called this the Miramax smear campaign in full swing.
04:34It's him finally facing real, real criminal consequences for his criminal behavior,
04:40and so for that I feel gratified.
04:44Amber Heard
04:44In 2016, Heard filed for divorce from husband Johnny Depp,
04:48alleging physical and verbal abuse.
04:51Two years later, in an article for The Washington Post,
04:54she detailed her experience with domestic violence.
04:56Not naming her ex-husband, Heard wrote she was a victim of domestic abuse.
05:01In 2019, Depp sued her for defamation.
05:04She countersued, claiming he had engineered an online smear campaign against her,
05:08to ruin her life and career.
05:10I don't deserve this. I want to move on.
05:14Heard's court filings also blamed him for instigating petitions to have her fired
05:19from Aquaman and losing her ambassadorship with L'Oreal.
05:23During the highly publicized trial, the actress took the stand to reveal
05:27she had been facing immense internet hate and threats to her life
05:31since coming forward about her alleged abuse.
05:33I receive hundreds of death threats regularly, if not daily.
05:41Thousands since this trial has started people mocking.
05:45Although she lost the case, the fact that she was trolled to no end was undeniable.
05:50Meghan Markle
05:51Before she married Prince Harry, the Suits actress was fairly popular.
05:54You have no idea.
05:56Today, however, she is one of the most polarizing public figures you'll find.
06:00Ever since she stepped into the British royal family, she's been chewed out by tabloids.
06:05From being accused of driving a wedge between her husband and Prince William,
06:09to allegations that she's overly controlling of her staff, rumors followed her everywhere.
06:14It wasn't just catty gossip.
06:16It was bringing out a part of people that was racist in how it was charged.
06:23When the Sussexes gave up their status as senior royals, it was again her who was criticized.
06:29For long, fans have believed that the negative stories about Meghan were maliciously planted.
06:34Her Cuts co-star Simon Rex even claimed he had been offered money
06:38by the British tabloids to lie about romancing her.
06:42Unfortunately, her situation hasn't changed much since.
06:45My hope for people in the takeaway from this is to know that there's another side.
06:56To know that life is worth living.
06:59Pamela Anderson
07:00These days, she is seen on red carpets completely makeup-free.
07:03Back in the 90s, she was a sex symbol on the cover of Playboy magazine,
07:07and the male gaze couldn't be happier.
07:10Gosh, what a beautiful tan you've got.
07:12You really do.
07:13Thanks.
07:14Oh, yes, yes.
07:16Well, I'm in the sun every day.
07:17Yet it was her sexuality that subjected her to exploitation at the hands of Hollywood.
07:22When an explicit tape of her and Tommy Lee,
07:24who she was married to at the time, was stolen and leaked,
07:27the Baywatch actress was instantly denounced.
07:30It was just accumulated, all this stress.
07:31We had a lot of stress.
07:32This really did not help our marriage.
07:35All the shaming by the media gaslit her into thinking less of herself.
07:39Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, Lee came out of the ordeal relatively scot-free
07:44and even celebrated.
07:46Marilyn Monroe
07:47For an actress who represents the epitome of Hollywood's Golden Age,
07:50the industry sure treated her with the most appalling cruelty.
07:54And if you had a daughter, wouldn't you rather she didn't marry a poor man?
07:58But I was...
07:58You'd want her to have the money.
08:00But I was...
08:00You'd want her to have the money.
08:01But I was...
08:02You'd want her to have the money.
08:03But I was...
08:04You'd want her to have the money.
08:04But I was...
08:05You'd want her to have the money.
08:06But I was...
08:07You'd want her to have the money.
08:08You'd want her to have the most wonderful things in the world and to be very happy.
08:12Oh, why is it wrong for me to want those things?
08:15Marilyn Monroe was not only sexualized for her entire career, but was also underpaid.
08:20She was a victim of the casting couch,
08:22and the media rarely saw her as anything more than a sexual object.
08:26Your picture has been on the cover of almost all popular magazines, hasn't it?
08:32No, not the Ladies Home Journal.
08:35That you would like, would you?
08:36Yes.
08:37They called her a dumb blonde who was allowed sexual expression
08:40only when she pandered to their fantasies.
08:43Otherwise, she was humiliated for the same,
08:45which showed in how her love life was publicized.
08:48Even her tragic death was marred by allegations of affairs
08:52with former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy.
08:56Years later, Hollywood has made her into an I.P.
09:00You're in the papers so much.
09:03Well, not half as much as you, Marilyn.
09:08Who, me?
09:11Well, that's just studio publicity.
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09:32Britney Spears
09:33Stardom always spelled objectification for the toxic singer.
09:43The media made her virginity a headline.
09:46When she was revealed to have been intimate with Justin Timberlake,
09:49despite claiming she would wait for marriage, she was relentlessly shamed.
09:53Then, JT had a Britney lookalike portrayed as an
09:56adulteress in his music video for Crime Your River, prompting even more hate.
10:04Next came a failed marriage with Kevin Federline,
10:09with whom she had two kids she was losing custody of amid postpartum depression.
10:14The last straw was the passing of her aunt, Sandra, from cancer.
10:18Britney shaved her head and attacked a photographer's car with an umbrella.
10:22Do you think the paparazzi being around affected her at all?
10:27I don't really think and I don't really believe because,
10:31you know, working on her for so many years, she never gave a clue or information to us
10:38that I don't appreciate you guys. Leave me the F alone.
10:42Soon after, her father assumed her conservatorship,
10:45marking the start of a battle that only recently ended.
10:48Tonight, cheers erupting outside this courthouse in Los Angeles.
10:52Do you think the Hollywood smear machine is still as powerful today as it once was?
10:56Sound off in the comments.
10:58Rage was coming out of me. I thought, whoa, whoa, whoa, where's that coming from?
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