For the first time ever, Evan Rachel Wood links a name to her alleged abuser.
Monday morning, the “Westworld” Emmy nominee dropped a revealing revelation about horrific abuse she claims to have suffered while dating musician Marilyn Manson.
“My abuser name is Brian Warner,” she wrote on Instagram and in a statement to Vanity Fair.
Also known as Marilyn Manson. He started taking care of me when I was a teenager and horribly abused me for years, ”continued the 33-year-old actress. “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. I stand behind the many victims who will no longer be silent. “
Wood began a romantic relationship with the goth singer as a teenager, although the couple kept quiet until Wood reached the age of 19. Manson, now 52, was 38 when the couple came out. In 2010, they were engaged briefly before calling it quits.
But it wasn’t until years later that rumors would circulate that Manson had left Wood an abusive and subordinate relationship.
Last fall, Manson abruptly ended an interview with British music site Metal Hammer when the reporter mentioned Wood’s name. The shock-rocker’s camp later issued a lengthy statement, denying all allegations of abuse.
“Manson has never shied away from public comments – nor does he have to make the same comment twice,” his spokesman said at the time.
Representatives for both Manson and Wood did not immediately return to Page Six’s request for comment on her latest statements.
Along with the recent post, she has also taken to social media to share shocking stories on behalf of several other women who claim they were also groomed and abused by the “Dope Show” singer – and now want him to be held “accountable”.
Wood’s message comes five years after she first spoke of an abusive relationship with Rolling Stone in 2016. In 2019, Wood helped forge the California Phoenix Act, a bill that extended the statute of limitations for domestic violence cases from three to five. years – and testified at the California Senate hearing about her “rape and torture”.
“I mustered up the courage to leave several times, but he kept calling my house and threatening to kill himself,” Wood said in her testimony. “One time I came back to try to defuse the situation, he cornered me in our bedroom and asked me to kneel. Then he tied me to my hands and feet. Once I was restrained, he hit me and shocked sensitive parts of my body with a torture device called a violet staff. For him it was a way for me to prove my loyalty. The pain was excruciating. I felt like I was leaving my body and part of me died that day. “