(Manson, through his attorney, insists that Wood's claims and those of his other accusers are false. also known to the world as Marilyn Manson," this should be taken as a risky leap into what could become a very bloody battle. So when she begins her telling with, "I'm here to talk about Brian Warner. Other survivors, some of whom appear in the documentary, report being watched. His faithful have bombarded her with death threats. Regardless of this, as we see in "Phoenix Rising," she has real reasons to be deathly afraid that Manson and his fans will harm her, her fellow accusers and her collaborator and fellow activist Illma Gore. Her life and stardom are entirely in her control. Now Wood stars in "Westworld," a role she took on after a recurring part in "True Blood" gave her career a second wind. In the same way that Tina Turner spent years dealing with reporters pestering her to relive her physical abuse to give them fresh quotes, Wood and Manson were treated like a dirty titillation. This is something of a grand tradition in the American entertainment industry, certainly when it comes to rock stars. The sickening part is that her living nightmare was packaged as entertainment news and celebrity gossip. What onlookers salaciously viewed a break-up she describes as a final escape. RELATED: Manson's troubling suit against WoodĪnd while the public regarded Wood and Manson as a tumultuous on-again-off-again couple who were involved until 2011, the experience she recounts in "Phoenix Rising" is that of a cult's captive and domestic abuse survivor. Manson's mental and physical torments quickly escalated afterward.
While all this was happening, Wood was being gaslit, brainwashed, verbally assaulted and isolated, she says. Back then, gossip aggressor Perez Hilton merrily branded her "Evan Rachel Whore," scrawling "yuck" and "ho" over her photograph. Recently Wood alleged that Manson raped her while the cameras were rolling on the music video. Manson's sexually explicit video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses," in which she stars, only boosted that engine.īy this point in "Phoenix Rising" Wood and her family have described how traumatic that experience was, which makes reading the horrified headlines especially shameful. Its larger point, along with the barrage of headlines that followed, was to trashing an up-and-coming starlet as a homewrecker. But, she says, that's not what the article was about. In a tiny blurb in the corner, she points out, the reporters mention Manson's terrible temper, his "increasing use of drugs and alcohol," and the fact that he would throw and break things. Instead, the magazine's angle positions Wood as part of a "crazy love triangle" pitting her against Dita. But as the article demonstrated, nobody had an eye on such things. Although she'd been designated one of Hollywood's "It" girls, the power differential was plain for anyone to see. Wood's acting career had only begun to catch fire via a string of "troubled teen" roles.
In the two-part documentary's second episode, Wood recalls that her relationship with Manson went public in early 2007 via an Us Weekly story titled "Evan Rachel Wood's Bizarre Love Scandal."Īt this point Manson was one of the biggest rock stars around and married to pin-up and burlesque icon Dita Von Teese. Few are as sobering as those when Evan Rachel Wood reminds us of how their abusive relationship – and, by extension, her reputation – were commodified into tabloid fodder. HBO's "Phoenix Rising" holds a plethora of enraging, nauseating details about Marilyn Manson's violent dark side.
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