"None of it’s happening. All of it is fake"

The actress said in a recent interview that she believes the concept to be “fake” and that she has witnessed it firsthand during her time in the movie business.

Although there is a lot of outward praise from women for women in the public eye, Sweeney says women don’t practice what they preach behind closed doors.

"It’s very disheartening to see women tear other women down," Sweeney told Vanity Fair.

"Especially when women who are successful in other avenues of their industry see younger talent working really hard - hoping to achieve whatever dreams that they may have - and then trying to bash and discredit any work that they’ve done."

"This entire industry, all people say is 'Women empowering other women,'" she continued. 

"None of it’s happening. All of it is fake and a front for all the others, that they say behind everyone’s back."

Sweeney went on to say that she thinks it’s a generational issue; to believe that only one woman can be at the top.

"I mean, there’s so many studies and different opinions on the reasoning behind it," she explained. 

"I’ve read that our entire lives, we were raised — and it’s a generational problem — to believe only one woman can be at the top."

"There’s one woman who can get the man," the "Anyone But You" star went on to say. 

"There’s one woman who can be, I don’t know, anything. So then all the others feel like they have to fight each other or take that one woman down instead of being like, 'Let’s all lift each other up.'"

Sweeney then said even she is still “trying to figure it out” in terms of how things actually work in Hollywood and said: “I’m just trying my best over here.”

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