Sharon Osbourne opened her “working relationship” with Marilyn Manson after several women came forward to accuse the singer of sexual abuse and assault.
Manson already had a close friendship with the Osbournes and was originally set to join him as part of the latter’s North American 2020 tour.
Talking about The conversation days after Manson faced charges from actor Evan Rachel Wood and four other women, Osbourne opened up to meet the singer for 25 years.
“[I’ve] I worked with him for many, many years and, obviously, Me I wouldn’t know what’s going on in your room; nor do I want to, ”she said.
“But as far as the people who attended all my social gatherings, cursing me and stuff and posting pictures of Marilyn and me, you know, there’s something called a working relationship, and that’s what I have with Marilyn for many years.
“I don’t know anything about his sexual preferences or the way he treats women. I know how he treats an older woman, which is me, and he has always been respectful. “
Wood’s initial allegations were made after she gave prior testimony about an abusive relationship she had as a teenager, during which she did not reveal the name of her alleged abuser.
Accusing Manson by name in an Instagram post, Wood said she was “here to expose this dangerous man and call on the many industries that enabled him, before he ruins more lives”.
Manson denied the claims in his own Instagram post, saying his relationships “have always been entirely consensual”.
“Regardless of how – and why – others are now choosing to distort the past, that is the truth,” he wrote.
After the allegations were made, the musician was removed from his label Loma Vista and removed from the TV projects he was working on, including American gods and the Freak show anthology.
The Limp Bizkit guitarist labeled Manson “the villain” this week, having performed in his band live for less than a year in 2008.
Speaking on the Twitch channel Space ZebraBorland said, “He’s not a nice guy and everything people have said about him is true … They are telling the truth.”
He added that Manson is “incredibly talented”, but emphasized that he was “fucked up and he needs to be put in check and he needs to sober up and he needs to come to terms with his demons.”
“He’s a bad guy.”
Manson was also convicted by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails after a controversial excerpt from Manson’s 1998 autobiography The long and difficult road out of hell began circulating online.