Sharon Osbourne has opened her ‘working relationship’ with Marilyn Manson after several women came forward to accuse the singer of sexual abuse and assault.
Manson used to have a close friendship with the Osbournes and would originally join him as part of the latter’s North American tour in 2020.
Talk on The talk A few days after Manson faced accusations from actor Evan Rachel Wood and four other women, Osbourne knew the singer for 25 years.
‘[I’ve] worked with him for many, many years, and, of course, I would not know what was going on in his bedroom; I do not want to either, ”she said.
‘But as for people who have chosen all my socials, mentioned my names and things, and put up pictures of Marilyn and I, you know, there’s something called a working relationship, and that’s what I had Marilyn for. many years.
‘I know nothing about his sexual preferences or the way he treats women. I know how he treats an older woman, it’s me, and he was always respectful. ‘
Wood’s initial allegations were made after she had previously testified about an abusive relationship she was in during her late teens, during which she did not name her alleged abuser.
Wood accused Manson in an Instagram post, saying she ‘was here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that enabled him before he destroyed any more lives’.
Manson denied the allegations in his own Instagram post, saying his relationship “has always been completely unanimous”.
“No matter how – and why – others now choose to misrepresent the past, that is the truth,” he wrote.
After the allegations were made, the musician of his record company Loma Vista was fired and removed from the TV projects he was working on, including American Gods and the Creepshow anthology.
Limp Bizkit guitarist described Manson as a ‘bad guy’ this week, after performing less than a year in his live band in 2008.
Talk on the Twitch channel Zebra Space, Borland said: ‘He’s not a great guy and everything people have said about him is fucking true … They’re telling the truth.’
He added that Manson was “incredibly talented”, but stressed that he was “fucked up and that he had to be kept in check and that he had to become sober and that he had to deal with his demons.”
“He’s a bad guy.”
Manson was also convicted by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor after a controversial excerpt from Manson’s 1998 autobiography The long hard road from hell start circulate online.