Sharon Osbourne opened her ‘working relationship’ with Marilyn Manson after several women came forward to accuse the singer of sexual abuse and assault.
Manson previously enjoyed a close friendship with the Osbournes and originally planned to join him as part of the 2020 North American tour.
Speak on The conversation days after Manson was accused of actor Evan Rachel Wood and four other women, Osbourne began to know the singer for 25 years.
“[I’ve] worked with him for many, many years, and of course I wouldn’t know what’s going on in his bedroom; I don’t want to either, ”she said.
“But as for people who’ve been through all my socializing, calling me names and stuff and putting up pictures of Marilyn and I, you know, there’s such a thing as a working relationship, and that’s what I’ve had with Marilyn for many years.
‘I don’t know about his sexual preferences or the way he treats women. I know how he treats an older woman, I am, and he has always been respectful. “
Wood’s initial allegations were made after she previously testified about an abusive relationship she had during her late teens, in which she did not mention her alleged abuser.
Wood accused Manson by name in an Instagram post, saying she was “here to expose this dangerous man and name the many industries that made him possible, before ruining even more lives.”
Manson has denied the claims in his own Instagram post, saying his relationships have “always been complete consensus.”
“No matter how – and why – others choose to misrepresent the past now, that’s the truth,” he wrote.
After the allegations were made, the musician was removed from his record label Loma Vista and removed from the TV projects he worked on, including American gods and the Scary show anthology.
Limp Bizkit guitarist called Manson a “bad guy” this week after performing in his live band for less than a year in 2008.
Speaking on the Twitch channel Space ZebraBorland said, “He’s not a great guy and everything people have said about him is damn true … They’re telling the truth.”
He added that Manson is “incredibly talented” but insisted that he was “fucked up and that he needs to be restrained and get sober and come to terms with his demons.”
“He’s a bad guy.”
Manson has also been convicted by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails after a controversial excerpt from Manson’s 1998 autobiography The long, hard way out of hell began circulate online.