Evan Rachel Wood
Did Marilyn Manson rape her while filming a music video?
Evan Rachel Wood raises serious allegations against her ex-partner, the musician Marilyn Manson.
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In a documentary, Evan Rachel Wood raises new allegations against Marilyn Manson. Was she raped by her ex on camera?
Almost exactly a year ago, actress Evan Rachel Wood (34) made serious allegations of abuse against ex-boyfriend Marilyn Manson (53) to the public. Several other women then spoke up with similar allegations. A new documentary called “Phoenix Rising,” which premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, has now provided more details about Wood’s allegedly violent relationship with the shock rocker. This is reported, among other things, by the music industry website “Rolling Stone”..
Accordingly, she was raped in front of the camera in 2007 while filming the music video for the song “Heart-Shaped Glasses”. In a “simulated sex scene,” Manson “really penetrated me,” Wood recalls the traumatic experience. “I never agreed to that,” continued the “Westworld” star. Shortly before, the relationship between the two had become public. At that time she was 18 and he was 38.
Made compliant with alcohol
In ‘Phoenix Rising’ she recounts: “I was forced into a commercial sex act under false information. That was when the first crime against me was committed – I was literally raped on camera.” Also, according to the report in the documentary, Wood states that while on set she was given absinthe, a liquor with a high alcohol content. She was “barely conscious” during this time, it said. The entire film crew felt “uncomfortable and nobody knew what to do.”
In addition, she was then pressured by Brian Warner, as the musician’s real name is, to describe her relationship to journalists as “romantic”. According to her, the reality was different: “The video was just the beginning of the violence, which was to continue to escalate over the course of the relationship.” By 2010, the two were still together – because she was “brainwashed and manipulated into obedience.”
Marilyn Manson has categorically denied the allegations since they first surfaced a year ago. According to him, the “intimate relationships have always been consensual.”