Evan Rachel Wood: “Marilyn Manson abused me for years”

Five years have passed since the first complaint, since Evan Rachel Wood she said that she had been the victim of such ferocious abuse that she had caused part of herself to die. “He had attacks of extreme jealousy, which often led him to destroy our house, to confine me to a room, to threaten me. I tried the courage to leave him several times, but I knew that every time he would start calling me, incessantly, threatening suicide “, he explained in 2016, in a confession entrusted to Rolling Stone before, Variety then. “Once, I retraced my steps, to try again and calm the situation. So, he locked me in our bedroom and ordered me to kneel. Then, he tied my hands and feet together. When I was well tied up, she began to beat me and give small shocks to the most sensitive parts of my body. He did it with an electrostimulator (used in bondage practices, ed), an instrument of torture. According to him, it was the way I could express my loyalty to him. But the pain was excruciating. I felt like I was slowly leaving my body. A part of me died that day », confessed the actress and singer, who, five years after the first words, managed to find the strength to give a name and a face to her executioner.

«The name of the one who abused me is Brian Walker, known as Marilyn Manson. He started luring me when I was just a teenager, then horribly abused me for years to come, “Wood said now, explaining how”I’ve been brainwashed. I was manipulated into submission. ‘ “I have finished living in fear of retaliation, slander and blackmail. I’m here today to make a mockery of this dangerous man and name the industries that allowed him to do this. I do it so that it can’t ruin other lives, ”concluded Wood, who with Marilyn Manson he had a relationship that lasted three years, from 2007 to 2010. At the time, the actress was just nineteen, half as many as the singer, with whom she seemed to be getting married.