Actress Evan Rachel Wood revealed, after suspicions arose , that her ex-partner, who had been psychologically and physically abusing her for years, was actually musician Marilyn Manson .
On her official Instagram, Wood wrote, “My abuser’s name is Brian Warner , also known to the world as Marilyn Manson. He began harassing me when I was a teenager and abused me in horrific ways for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into being submissive. I am tired of living in fear of retaliation, defamation, or blackmail. I am here to expose this dangerous man and denounce the industries that allow him to operate, before he ruins more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silenced.”
As a form of support, several other women also shared their horrifying stories with the artist; see below for the victims' statements:
“I met Brian Warner, known as Marilyn Manson, backstage in October 2015,” Gabriella . “I was 22 and he was 46. The first thing he said to me was that he was going to ‘bite me.’ We talked while the opening band played, and after the show he invited me onto his tour bus. He immediately showered me with affection – telling me it felt like we’d known each other for years, and I felt the same. He offered me cocaine. He told me to take off all my clothes and take a shower in front of him. He asked for my number while I was getting ready to leave and invited me to his show the next night. The second time we met, he broke a wine glass in a hotel room and told us to make a blood pact together. He cut both our hands with the broken glass.”
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“He (Brian Warner, also known as Marilyn Manson) lured me in with 'love bombing',” writes Sarah McNeilly . “Posing as the perfect boyfriend. Claiming he was just misunderstood. Charming, intelligent, funny, charismatic. While he was courting me, I discovered he was torturing other people. Before long, I was the one being tortured. I was emotionally abused, terrorized, and scarred. I was locked in rooms when I was “bad,” sometimes forced to listen to him entertaining other women. Kept away from certain friends, or if I didn’t, he would threaten to come after them. I was told stories of other people who tried to tell their stories and their pets ended up dead. I wasn’t allowed near other performers working on the same set because he told me they had AIDS and were disgusting, and if I did, he would get very upset and say, ‘I wouldn’t want that.’ I was verbally reprimanded for hours on end. Blamed for everything under the sun in order to make me feel worthless. No male friends in my life were allowed anymore. He threatened to kick one of them out after they posted something on my Facebook page. I was thrown against…” "He banged on the wall and threatened to hit me in the face with the baseball bat he was holding for trying to get him to choose a pair of pants before a music video shoot. I witnessed him staging problems or hiding lost objects to justify his violent outbursts. I witnessed him secretly recording other people in order to blackmail anyone who entered the 'butcher shop' (as I called his house, it was kept in a constant 62-degree cold). I witnessed him terrorizing and abusing other people in my presence. He slandered his ex-girlfriends. I was afraid to draw attention to myself to avoid falling into the crosshairs again. As a result of the way he treated me, I suffer from mental health issues and PTSD that have affected my personal and professional relationships, my self-esteem, and personal goals. I believe he ruins people's lives. I support whatever he will and will come to pass. I want to see Brian held accountable for his evil."
“I was in contact with Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) while working as a model across the ocean in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2009/2010,” Ashley Lindsay Morgan . “I genuinely didn’t know who he was, but I had heard his name from high school. We had a mutual photographer friend, and he said Brian wanted me for a new project. I was certainly interested at first. When we met, we talked about literature and film. He seemed intelligent, genuine, and caring. After a long time talking and texting, he took me to Los Angeles to be part of a film and a photo series. He said he believed in me as an actress, and I had confessed to him that I wanted to stop modeling, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. At first, it was. He was like many musicians I had met… but on cocaine and absinthe. He made me feel very safe, he said he would protect me, and I believed him.” I went from living at the Roosevelt Hotel to living with him very quickly, and things got pretty shady just as fast. I was given rules and got into “trouble” for any behavior he didn’t approve of.
Neither Marilyn Manson nor his team have commented on the reports so far.
