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Rose McGowan recently sent a letter to the media, thanking them for supporting her this year amidst the growing #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.

The actress spearheaded tremendous change after coming out with her story of sexual assaults in Hollywood. Read the letter below. (We love you too, Rose!)

To the Awesome Media Person reading this,

If you are in the media, and I’m reaching out to you, there’s a good chance we’ve spent some time together this past year. I wanted to reach out and thank you for helping push the needle forward on culture and society. By teaming up, we created in under a year a massive cultural reset. I want to personally thank you for your contributions to a changed landscape.

I’ve been reflecting a lot on what it must have been to work in the news during this past year and it can’t have been easy to have been on the other side. 2018 could be called the Year of the Trigger and I think we all felt it. I’m writing this in all earnestness, thank you for seeing it through. After being so highly visible for this past year, I got sick of myself and my story. Saturation point had been reached, but I knew it was for the greater good to push this groundswell forward. The power of the individual. That was the front face of it, behind the scenes I was getting floods of deeply personal, heart breaking stories. I felt like I was a gatekeeper for pain and I did not know how to help these people, there were so many, there are so many.

I get asked a lot if I’ve really seen a change. I have. I started seeing a pattern, I noticed that over the course of the last thirteen months, the intense stories I was receiving in my DMs were shifting- those at the beginning of the year are very different to those I’ve received at the end of the year. So many of people’s tragedies have been replaced by stories of triumph. Triumphs small and big. It’s been an amazing thing to see. I thought you may want to know that there has been a shift. And you have been a part of it.

With my sincere thanks,

Rose McGowan