May 2007: Wood stars alongside Manson in a sexually suggestive video for his song ‘Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)’. It is well known that Wood is in a relationship with Manson, who is in the middle of a divorce from dancer Dita Von Teese. The following year, Manson and Wood split up.
June 2009: In an interview published by SPIN, Says Manson that he harmed himself after his breakup from Wood, and that he fantasizes about hurting her. “Every day I have fantasies about smashing her skull with a sledgehammer,” he says. His camp later claims that he was not serious and that he made the comments in a spirit of theatrical exaggeration.
July 2009: Manson apparently threatens violence against music journalists. “I am very different from the press who will soon be murdered in their house has decided to fabricate,” he writes in a blog post that is no longer online, in response to a disparaging media mention. “If another ‘journalist’ makes an arrogant statement about me and my band, I will either personally or with the help of my fans greet them at their home and find out how much they believe in their freedom of expression.”
November 2009: Manson releases the video for his song “Running to the Edge of the World,” which features a staged scene in which he appears to be brutally defeating a female character who, according to several critics, resembles Wood.
January 2010: After reconciling, Manson and Wood are reportedly engaged; he suggests while standing on stage. Within months, they split up again.
November 2016: In a Rolling stone interview, Wood speaks publicly of rape for the first time “by a significant other while we were together.” She also refers to her ‘physical, psychological, [and] sexual ”abuse by a partner. She does not go into the identity of the alleged perpetrator.
October 2017: Manson’s longtime bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, is accused of rape. Manson, after saying that he “until recently knew nothing of these allegations” and was “saddened” at the alleged survivor’s “obvious distress”, says goodbye to Ramirez. Ramirez released a statement claiming that he “was only recently made aware of these allegations made more than 20 years ago,” and states, “I condone non-consensual sex of any kind.”
February 2018: Comedian and actor Charlyne Yi accuses Manson of harassing women and making racist remarks on the set of the TV drama House. Manson does not comment on the claims.
The same month, again without naming names, Wood describes experiences of sexual assault and domestic violence in testimony before Congress. “My experience with domestic violence was this,” she says, “the 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 to love me, raping what he believed to be my unconscious body. “
August 2018: The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office says in a court that it has declined to pursue a case against Manson. According to the filing, a police report filed against Manson earlier that year accused him of unspecified sex crimes dating back to 2011. In the filing, the prosecutor’s office says it has declined to pursue the case because the statute of limitations has expired. expired and due to the “absence of confirmation”. Through his attorney, Manson denies the allegations “categorically” and calls them “completely delusional”.
April 2019: Wood testifies about her experience of domestic violence again, this time before a California senate panel. Again, she refuses to name her alleged abuser. “The fear of being judged by society is debilitating and the fear of retaliation from my abuser is paralyzing,” she says. “I have been diagnosed with complex PTSD, including dissociation, panic attacks, night terrors, agoraphobia, impulse control, chronic pain in my body, among other symptoms.”