12 Things We Learned From Rose McGowan On Louis Theroux’s Podcast
6. She Also Lived A Life Of Homelessness
At the age of thirteen, McGowan became homeless - an experience she describes as undeniably hard, but also as a time in her life when she “did have some fun to tell you the truth.”
One particular aspect of her homelessness that struck Theroux the most was her attempts of crisscross travelling the country. Her crisscrossing involved going to the local police station, starting to cry to the officers, and then claiming she lived miles away in the next town so that they’d buy her a bus ticket. Fortunately, these crying fiascos would almost always work a treat.
On a sadder and less romanticised note of her homeless life, she disclosed details about her drug abuse that started from a very young age. One particular story involved her taking a hit of acid at the 8th-grade high-school dance - after stumbling her way home alone, McGowan got into an aggressive altercation with her mother, which led to her incarceration at a psychiatric institute at the age of just thirteen.