Evan Rachel Wood alleges Marilyn Manson ‘essentially raped’ her during music video shoot

Marilyn Manson in goth makeup stands next to a painting with Evan Rachel Wood
Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wooden attend a gallery opening on Halloween 2006. Their relationship would go public a couple of months later.
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Evan Rachel Wooden is getting extra particular in her sexual-abuse allegations towards ex-fiance Marilyn Manson. In a brand new documentary, she says the singer “primarily raped” her through the filming of Manson’s 2007 “Coronary heart-Formed Glasses” music video.

“We had mentioned a simulated intercourse scene, however as soon as the cameras had been rolling, he began penetrating me for actual,” Wooden says partially one in every of director Amy Berg’s “Phoenix Rising,” which premiered Sunday on the digital Sundance Movie Pageant. “I had by no means agreed to that.”

The 34-year-old Wooden, who has been performing since earlier than she was 10, stated she had by no means been on a set that unprofessional or chaotic in her life and didn’t really feel secure. She stated she didn’t know advocate for herself or say no, as a result of she had been “conditioned and educated to by no means discuss again — to only soldier via."

After filming the alleged sexual act, Wooden stated she felt “disgusting” and like she’d completed one thing “shameful.” The crew was uncomfortable and didn’t know what to do, she stated.

“I used to be coerced right into a industrial intercourse act beneath false pretenses,” Wooden stated. “That’s when the primary crime was dedicated towards me and I used to be primarily raped on digital camera.”

Howard King, legal professional for Marilyn Manson (actual identify Brian Warner), dismissed Wooden’s allegations Monday afternoon in a press release to The Instances.

“Of all of the false claims that Evan Rachel Wooden has made about Brian Warner, her imaginative retelling of the making of the ‘Coronary heart-Formed Glasses’ music video 15 years in the past is essentially the most brazen and best to disprove, as a result of there have been a number of witnesses,” he stated. “Evan was not solely totally coherent and engaged through the three-day shoot but in addition closely concerned in weeks of pre-production planning and days of post-production enhancing of the ultimate reduce.

“The simulated intercourse scene took a number of hours to shoot with a number of takes utilizing totally different angles and a number of other lengthy breaks in between digital camera setups,” King continued. “Brian didn't have intercourse with Evan on that set, and he or she is aware of that's the fact.”

The “Westworld” actor was in a relationship with the singer that went public in January 2007. She was 19 after they started courting and he was 37. They had been briefly engaged in 2010 earlier than splitting up that August.

In February 2021, Wooden recognized Warner because the alleged abuser she’d referenced anonymously previously.

“He began grooming me once I was a young person and horrifically abused me for years. I used to be brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I'm completed dwelling in concern of retaliation, slander, or blackmail,” she wrote on Instagram.

She continued, “I'm right here to show this harmful man and name out the numerous industries which have enabled him, earlier than he ruins any extra lives. I stand with the numerous victims who will now not be silent.”

In February 2021, when the allegations first picked up steam, Warner posted a denial of his personal on Instagram.

“Clearly, my artwork and my life have lengthy been magnets for controversy, however these latest claims about me are horrible distortions of actuality,” he wrote. “My intimate relationships have at all times been fully consensual with like-minded companions. No matter how — and why — others are actually selecting to misrepresent the previous, that's the fact.”

In Could 2021, Warner was hit with two lawsuits from girls alleging sexual misconduct.

Whereas the Sundance screening was a piece in progress of the primary a part of the two-part “Phoenix Rising” movie, the entire work will likely be launched in March on HBO and HBO Max.

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