Accused of harassment and rape by many women, including his former partner Evan Rachel Wood, singer Marilyn Manson refutes them all. “My intimate relationships have always been fully consented and my partners in agreement,” said the musician on his Instagram account, Monday, early evening. This did not prevent his label, Loma, from ceasing all collaboration with him.
This reaction comes as the actress of the Westworld series revealed, on February 1, also on Instagram, name of the attacker whose actions she denounced, in 2018, during a hearing on sexual assault in front of the US Congress. Brian Warner, the real surname of Marilyn Manson, had been suspected since these revelations. In front of the American representatives, the actress of thirty-three years, in particular, affirmed to have been raped several times. On social networks, Wood explains having been “psychologically manipulated” by the singer, when she was not yet 20 years old. She also accuses him of having subjected her “to horrible abuse for years” .
In a relationship with Marilyn Manson from 2007, before their engagement, in 2010, seperated up a few months later, the actress was joined, in her allegations, by four other women, supposed ex-companions of the artist, who l ‘also accused, on their Instagram account, of manipulation, harassment, ill-treatment and threats. One of them, known by the pseudonym Gabriella and whose relationship began in 2015, also mentions several rapes.
Distressing statements
Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood started a relationship when they were thirty-six and eighteen, respectively. In 2009, already, in an interview with the site of the magazine Spin , the Gothic interpreter had explained to have “every day the fantasy of pulverizing” the skull of Evan Rachel Wood “with a hammer”. He said he “cut his face and hands” on “158 times” , the actress having refused to answer him during one of their arguments. “I wanted to show her the harm she had done to me , ” he explained, with his usual theatricality.
Monday’s testimonies depict a character who is both seductive and manipulative, able to tie up his victims, threaten them with death or force them to take drugs. Many of the women report suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. “My art and my life have always attracted controversy. But these statements about me are horrible distortions of reality, ” replies the singer.
Dropped by his Label
A few hours after the publication of these messages, Marilyn Manson’s record company, Loma Vista Recordings, indicated that in light of the “disturbing allegations” by Wood and these other women, the company “immediately ceased to promote l current album of singer ‘ , We are Chaos , released September 11, 2020.
other support to alleged victims came from Hollywood, including Rose McGowan, herself a former girlfriend of Marilyn Manson at the turn of the 2000s “I support Evan Rachel Wood and the other brave women who testified, ” she commented on Twitter, adding in a video “ to be proud ”of Evan Rachel Wood and the other alleged victims. Rose McGowan is, moreover, one of the first to have testified openly against film producer Harvey Weinstein, leading to his downfall and the birth of the #MeToo movement. “Let the truth come out ,” she wrote. Let the healing begin. ”
