Shock rocker Marilyn Manson is responding to Evan Rachel Wood’s allegations of abuse by filing a lawsuit of his own.
The 53-year-old recording artist, whose real name is Brian Warner, filed a defamation lawsuit against Wood this week, claiming she even hacked into his computer to impersonate FBI agents in an attempt to get more victims to come forward against him.
Deadline reported that Warner’s suit accuses Wood of creating a “conspiracy” that eventually “derailed Warner’s successful music, TV, and film career.” This alludes to how Warner was dropped by his label after multiple women came forward saying he abused them, too.
Wood was the first to publicly call out Warner. He denied any wrongdoing, and in the suit the rocker claims that Wood “created a fictitious email account to manufacture purported evidence that Warner was emailing illicit pornography.”
“We’re filing this now because we have been able to gather an overwhelming trove of evidence – including both documents and witness statements – which proves that the stories that Evan Rachel Wood and her co-conspirator Illma Gore have been falsifying and spreading are both vindictive and demonstrably untrue,” Warner’s main attorney Howard King told Deadline.
“It’s incredibly important to differentiate between the character of ‘Marilyn Manson’ and the man Brian Warner,” he continued. “Wood’s claims may resonate because of the intentionally ‘shocking’ character of ‘Marilyn Manson’ but they simply do not reflect the truth. The manufactured facts these conspirators scripted a decade after the event never happened.”
Among other abuse allegations, Wood claims Warner “essentially raped” her during a music video shoot in 2007 for the song “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand).” This incident and others were explored in the documentary project “Phoenix Rising,” which premiered at Sundance.
“We had discussed a simulated sex scene, but once the cameras were rolling, he started penetrating me for real. I had never agreed to that. I’m a professional actress, I have been doing this my whole life, I’d never been on a set that unprofessional in my life up until this day. It was complete chaos, and I did not feel safe. No one was looking after me,” the “Westworld” actress said.
“It was a really traumatizing experience filming the video,” she continued. “I didn’t know how to advocate for myself or know how to say no because I had been conditioned and trained to never talk back—to just soldier through.”
“I felt disgusting and like I had done something shameful, and I could tell that the crew was very uncomfortable and nobody knew what to do,” Wood said. “I was coerced into a commercial sex act under false pretenses. That’s when the first crime was committed against me and I was essentially raped on camera.”
Wood had initially said her former partner began grooming her as a teenager and then “horrifically abused” her for years. She also alleged the hardcore rocker “brainwashed and manipulated” her during their relationship.
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