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Jackie Strause
“I got tired of living in fear of retaliation, slander or blackmail,” wrote the actress and activist on social media on Monday morning.
Evan Rachel Wood named Marilyn Manson as her alleged attacker on Monday. About the musician, whose real name is Brian Warner, the actress and activist explained: “I’m tired of living in fear of retaliation, slander or blackmail”.
In the statement posted on his Instagram account, Wood said: “The name of my attacker is Brian Warner, also known in the world as Marilyn Manson. He started to prepare me when I was a teenager and he abused me terribly for years. cerebral and manipulated until submission. I am tired of living in fear of retaliation, slander or blackmail. “
She continued: “I am here to expose this dangerous man and summon the many industries that have enabled him, before he ruins more lives. I have the many victims who will not remain silent.”
The Westworld star first spoke about being a sexual assault survivor in late 2016 to say that she was raped twice, identifying one of her attackers only as a significant person who abused her while they were together. In the interview and in the public letter with Rolling Stone, Wood detailed how his previous attacks were “one of many factors” that contributed to the attempt to take his own life at age 22.
In May 2018, Manson had a police report filed against him for unspecified sexual crimes dating from 2011. The district attorney declined the case, citing that the statute of limitations had expired and an “absence of corroboration”, according to the court filing. Manson’s lawyer Howard E. King, Esq., Denied the claims in a statement to the The Hollywood Reporter at the time, saying, in part: “The allegations made to the police were and are categorically denied by Mr. Warner and are either completely delusional or part of a calculated attempt to generate publicity … Any allegation of sexual impropriety or imprisonment in this, or any other, the time is false. “
In response to Wood’s post on social media on Monday, at least four other women came forward with allegations of equally horrific reports of abuse against Manson. Wood shared these accounts in his Instagram stories. Some of the details were published by Vanity Fair.
The reports allege psychological abuse; horrifying “disturbed behavior”, including blackmail, manipulation and isolation; physical abuse, such as cutting; and rape. Women also say they have suffered from panic attacks, PTSD and / or depression because of the alleged abuse and are now manifesting themselves in an effort to demand accountability.
The Hollywood Reporter sought out a representative from Manson.
Wood met Manson when she was 18 and he was 36, and was briefly engaged to the rock star in 2010. Since demonstrating in 2016, she has become an advocate for survivors of sexual and domestic violence. In 2018, she testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee with the aim of getting the Declaration of the Rights of Survivors of Sexual Violence approved across the country. In 2019, she spoke again about her past abuses while testifying before California lawmakers on behalf of the Phoenix Act, a bill she created to expand the statute of limitations for crimes involving domestic violence from three to five years. It went into effect in January 2020.
Before posting his statement on Monday, Wood shared an image of her in the character Dolores Abernathy on the HBO channel Westworld with his quote, “I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the maiden.”