Evan Rachel Wood accuses her former partner, Marilyn Manson, of years of ‘horrific’ abuse.
In an Instagram post, the actor writes:
The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known as Marilyn Manson. He started caring for me when I was a teenager and abused me horribly for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I already live in fear of retaliation, slander or extortion. I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him before he destroys more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent.
Four other women – Ashley Walters, Sarah McNeilly, Ashley Morgan and Gabriella (with none of them) – also allege abusive behavior on public Instagram posts. McNeilly and Walters allege physical and emotional abuse, including behaviors that characterize them as torture; Morgan alleges sexual and physical violence, and coercion; Gabriella alleges rape, physical violence and that Manson forced her to take drugs.
Rock singer Manson did not comment on their allegations. The Guardian contacted representatives of his management company and record company for comment.
Manson “categorically denied” a previous allegation of sexual abuse by an anonymous woman in 2018 due to incidents dating back to 2011, which were dropped due to an “absence of confirmation” and the statute of limitations expired. Manson’s lawyer called the allegations “completely delusional”.
Wood and Manson started in 2007, when she was 19 and he was 37. She inspired his 2007 song Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand). Their relationship ended in 2008. Manson told an interviewer in 2009, “I have fantasies every day about hitting her skull with a sledgehammer,” and said he himself suffered damage after the breakup. They reconciled, became engaged in 2010 and divorced again later that year.
In 2018, Wood will appear before the U.S. Judiciary Committee amid a campaign for the 2016 Survivors’ Rights Act to be enacted in the U.S., discussing her experiences of various forms of abuse by an unnamed person .
She said that following the attacks, she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and that she herself suffered injuries and attempted suicide. All four of the other women abusing Manson say they suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In 2019, Wood testified before the Senate Committee on Public Safety in California in support of a bill that expands the rights of victims of domestic violence. According to her, an anonymous abuser, whom she met in her late teens, made ‘threats against my life, sometimes with deadly weapons’, amid alleged domestic abuse in which he also tortured and starved her, monitored and threatened her telephone use. it with extortion.
Manson was interviewed about the evidence in an interview with Metal Hammer in 2020 and cut the interview short. A spokeswoman later said ‘Evan Rachel Wood was dating several people during her time with Manson’ and said the ‘sledgehammer’ remark was obviously a theatrical rock star interview promoting a new record and not a factual version ‘. They complained about ‘gossip and suspicions’ and emphasized an interview with Wood in 2015 in which she said of Manson: ‘I appreciate everything he taught me.’
Wood said earlier in 2018: ‘Many rumors are circulating about who I spoke to in my testimony. I want to clear something up and say, it was not Mickey Rourke. We were never ‘together’. ”
In 2018, Manson is also accused of harassing women on the TV drama House, about which he did not comment. In 2001, he was charged with assault and sexual misconduct after rubbing his cross in the face of a security guard, which was later reduced to a charge of disorderly conduct. He paid a fine of $ 4,000 and settled a case out of court.
Manson has had an enduring career with his cartoon gothic metal since his debut in 1994. Nine of his 11 studio albums reached the US Top 10 – most recently We Are Chaos in September 2020 – with Mechanical Animals from 1998 and The Golden Age of Grotesque from 2003 reaching number one.
Wood is a successful film and television actor, who made her breakthrough with a Golden Globe-nominated performance in the film Thirteen in 2003. She has since starred in films including Down in the Valley, The Wrestler and Charlie Countryman , and had a role in the sequel to Frozen. Since 2016, she has starred in the science TV series Westworld and on TV credits in True Blood, an Emmy-nominated role in Mildred Pierce, and more.