Evan Rachel Wood has accused singer Marilyn Manson of raping her while taking advantage of the filming of one of her music videos. The American actress, known for her roles in the series Westworld and in the film Thirteen, makes her accusations in the HBO documentary Phoenix Rising, presented at the Sundance film festival. In this production, which shows the struggle to increase the delay prescription in the event of sexual crimes to allow victims to obtain justice, the latter returns to the filming in 2007 of the clip for “Heart-Shaped Glasses”, one of the hits of Marilyn Manson, then her companion. “a simulated sex scene. But when the cameras were rolling, he started to really penetrate me”, says the young woman, before insisting: “I had never given my consent for that.”Actress since childhood , she explains that she “didn’t know how to say no” because she had “been conditioned and trained never to answer, to go to the end at all costs”. Evan Rachel Wood started dating Marilyn Manson – real name Brian Warner – in 2006, when he was 18. The singer was 37 at the time. She testifies as follows: “I was forced into a commercial sexual act under the pretext […]. I was raped in front of a camera. […] I can tell the team was very embarrassed and nobody knew what to do [pendant l’agression, ndlr]”According to the documentary, Marilyn Manson then pressured the young woman to assure reporters that there was no real sex scene during the filming. The singer’s lawyer, Howard King, denied the accusations in a statement to AFP: “Of all of Evan Rachel Wood’s false claims about Brian Warner, his fanciful retelling of the filming of the ‘Heart-Shaped Glasses’ music video fifteen years ago is the more shameless and easier to refute, because there were many witnesses. […] The simulated sex scene required several hours of filming with multiple shots from different angles, and several long breaks between each camera installation […]. Brian didn’t have sex with Evan on that set, and she knows that’s the truth.” Several women, like actress Esmé Bianco (Game of Thrones), have accused Marilyn Manson of rape and Los Angeles police confirmed last year that they had opened an investigation into allegations of domestic violence against the singer, relating to acts committed between 2009 and 2011. 53-year-old Marilyn Manson has created an ominously public figure for himself, goth-inspired, made up, wearing two different lenses, with jet-black hair, and his very name is inspired by actress Marilyn Monroe. and bloodthirsty guru Charles Manson, who brought about the murder of actress Sharon Tate. however to register titles and figur e especially on Kanye West’s album Donda, released last year.
