Yesterday Westworldsee Evan Rachel Wood publicly asserted that singer Marilyn Manson (also known as Brian Warner) had abused her in a previous relationship. As more women emerged, Starz and AMC announced that their relationship with Manson would be terminated immediately, as they were related to TV series. American Gods and Creepshow.
Manson has already been dropped by the music label Loma Vista Records in the wake of Wood’s Instagram post Mondayand said Manson “horribly abused” her during their relationship and that she was “brainwashed and manipulated into submission.” Today, the Hollywood Reporter also confirmed that the Creative Artists Agency had also dropped Manson. After Wood’s placement, at least four other women arrived forward with additional allegations of abuse.
‘The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known as Marilyn Manson. He started caring for me as a teenager and abused me horribly for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission, ”Wood wrote. ‘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. ”
Manson (then 38) and Wood (then 19) has been publicly revealed that they are in a relationship back in 2007 and engaged in 2010, but are the same year apart. While Wood Manson has now explicitly acknowledged her alleged abuser, she previously discussed her history as a survivor of abuse, including before U.S. Subcommittee on the U.S. Judiciary in 2018, as part of a legislative push to Bill of Rights for Sexual Assault across the country.
“My experience with domestic violence is as follows: toxic physical, mental and sexual abuse, which started slowly but increased over time, including threats against my life, severe gas light and brainwashing, and waking up with the man who claimed that he loves me, that he raped believe my unconscious body, ”Wood said in her statement two years ago. She also spoke before the California Senate Public Safety Committee in 2019, and although she did not mention her alleged abuser in any of the testimonies, context provided in line with her relationship with Manson. You can look at the second testimony below, but in part she said, ‘He broke me down by hunger, sleep deprivation and threats to my life, sometimes with deadly weapons, which would result in me having severe panic attacks where I could not breathe or do not stop trembling. ”
Now that Manson has been nominated by Wood, Starz and AMC have also announced that the actor and singer of the third and second seasons of American Gods and Creepshow, respectively. Manson replied to the actress’ claims that “my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent allegations about me are a terrible distortion of reality.”
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Deadline reported that Starz Manson’s single remaining appearance in American Gods‘third season such as Johan Wengren, the lead singer of a Viking death metal band called Blood Death – which appears in the fourth episode of the season, The Unseen, from last night.
“Due to the allegations against Marilyn Manson, we decided to remove his actions from the remaining episode. he is in, plans to broadcast later in the season, ”the network said in a statement provided to Deadline and subsequently shared on social media. “Starz stands unequivocally with all victims and survivors of abuse.”
AMC will also remove Manson’s upcoming releases in the second season of 2010 Creepshow. Deadline reports that the episode will be drawn, and the segment Manson would appear, will be replaced. Neither AMC nor Shudder have publicly commented on the allegations, but an AMC spokesman confirmed when contacted by io9 that a segment in which Manson would appear in the coming season would be removed and that it would not be broadcast. .
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