Rose McGowan claims she needed hypnotherapy after starring on 'Charmed'

The 44-year-old actress played Paige Matthews on the American television show for eight years until 2006 but has claimed the stress of starring on it made her seek alternative help

1 February 2018

She said: "I believe art shows you exactly where you are when you buy it. I was on a show called 'Charmed', and I was so lost, I was so invisible. Nobody could see who I was. I couldn’t see who I was. That girl, she’s a bound and gagged ballerina in a cage, and that’s exactly what my life felt like ...

"I found the repetitive days so opposite my natural rhythms that I became sick over and over. And it was at times a very stressful environment. I started to have panic attacks because of everything I was pushing down.

"I was sick about four or five times a season. We would shoot twenty-two or twenty-three episodes. On hour-long TV, you are essentially shooting half of a feature film in eight days. The pace was grueling. Two years in a row I had 102-degree fevers and got dumped in trash cans, in a stunt, always on the days that I was the most ill."

And Rose recalled how she angered 'Charmed' bosses when she ignored the rules and dyed her hair red ahead of a new series.

Speaking in her E! docuseries 'Citizen Rose', she added: "The studio got wind of it and flipped out, of course. They were furious and demanded to know how I expected them to explain this. I told them: ‘It’s a show about magic. You simply say I was mixing a potion and it exploded in my face! My hair turned red! I liked it, so I kept it.' That became the very first dialogue of the season, almost verbatim, between me and the character Leo. All it takes is a little creative thought, but the studios rarely have that working for them."

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