Actress Evan Rachel Wood released a statement claiming that ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson “ horribly assaulted her for years ” while four other women made allegations about the shock rocker.
Evan, 33, and singer Manson, real name Brian Warner, 52, became engaged in January 2010 after a three-year romance, but called off their engagement in August 2010.
They met when she was 18 and he was 18 years her senior.
Evan claimed in her statement released on Instagram on Monday: ‘My abuser name is Brian Warner, also known in the world as Marilyn Manson.
‘He horribly abused me for years’: Evan Rachel Wood, 33, ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson, 52, ‘groomed and brainwashed her as a teenager’ (photo in June 2007)
Words: Evan released this statement on Instagram Monday with fans expressing their support – Manson’s representatives have ‘categorically denied’ similar allegations in the past
He started nursing me when I was a teenager and abused me horribly for years.
Evan continued, “I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I have finished living in fear of retaliation, slander, or blackmail.
“I’m here to expose this dangerous man and name the many industries that made him possible, before ruining any more lives.
Evan said, “I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I have finished living in fear of retaliation, defamation or blackmail ‘(pictured in 2006)
She concluded, “I support the many victims who will no longer be silent.”
According to Vanity Fair, at least four other women have made their own allegations against Manson.
They detailed “poignant experiences that they claim include sexual assault, psychological abuse, and / or various forms of coercion, violence, and intimidation.”
In 2009 Manson told Spin, “The song, I Want to Kill You Like They Do in The Movies is about my fantasies.”
And in response to a question about his relationship with ex, Evan, Manson said, “Every day I have fantasies about smashing her skull with a sledgehammer.”
He gave a shocking account of their relationship in Christmas 2008, saying, “Every time I called her that day – I called 158 times – I took a razor and cut myself on the face or my hands.
‘I wanted to show her the pain she caused me. It was like, “I want you to see physically what you’ve done.” ‘
Manson’s representatives have “ categorically denied ” similar allegations in the past.
A Manson representative previously released a statement to NME saying, “ I understand that Evan Rachel Wood was dating multiple people around the time she was dating Manson.
‘Basic internet research will give you a lot of other names that have not been discussed in any of our discussions.
Your next few points relate to comments Manson made in Spin magazine in 2009. Your confusion over the timeline of these is extremely concerning.
The comments in Spin where Manson had the fantasy to use a sledgehammer on Evan and cut himself 158 times was clearly a theatrical rock star interview promoting a new record, and not a factual account.
“The fact that Evan and Manson were engaged six months after this interview would indicate that no one took this story literally.”
They continued, “There are also numerous articles over several years where Evan Rachel Wood speaks very positively about her relationship with Manson.
In The Edit of NetAPorters.com, she said, “ I wouldn’t trade any of them [our relationship], Wood told the mag. “I appreciate everything he taught me. I just don’t think we were the right choice for each other. ‘
Patricia Arquette previously tweeted: ‘Marilyn Manson cut herself 158x when he called Evan Rachel Wood after the breakup isn’t it [love], it is abuse. ‘
New Love: The outrageous artist, real name Brian Warner is now married to Lindsay Usich – they married last February (pictured together that month)
In 2018, Evan testified before Congress, giving a harrowing report of sexual and physical abuse with a partner she did not name.
She gave testimony to push all 50 states to pass the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights Act.
Evan said, “I was not okay, and I am not okay.”
She discussed: “Sick rituals where I bond with hands and feet to be mentally and physically tortured until my abuser felt I had proven my love for them.
‘Right now, as I was tied up and beaten and told unspeakable things, I really felt like I could die.
Not only because my abuser said to me, ‘I could kill you now,’ but because at the time I felt like I was leaving my body and was too scared to run. He would find me. ‘
Ex Files: Evan later got married to actor Jamie Bell, 34, and they have a son, seven, together. They broke up in 2014 after a two-year marriage (pictured in 2013)
She also said, “ My experience with domestic violence was this: toxic mental, physical and sexual abuse that started slowly but escalated over time, including threats to my life, severe gaslighting and brainwashing, waking up to the man who claimed love me rape that he thought was my unconscious body. ‘
MailOnline has contacted representatives for both Evan Rachel Wood and Brian Warner for comment.
Evan later married actor Jamie Bell, 34, and they have a son, seven, together. They divorced in 2014 after a two-year marriage.
Manson married Lindsay Elizabeth Warner in February 2020. From 2005-2007 he was married to burlesque recording artist Dita Von Teese.
In 1999, he became engaged to Charmed actress Rose McGowan, 47, but she ended the engagement in 2001, blaming “ lifestyle differences. ”
Former Love: Manson was married to burlesque artist Dita Von Teese from 2005-2007 (pictured together in May 2006)
Charmed: In 1999, he became engaged to actress Rose McGowan, 47, but she called off the engagement in 2001, blaming ‘differences in lifestyle’ (pictured together in 1998)