May 2007: Wood plays alongside Manson in a sexually suggestive video for his song “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand).” Wood is known to be dating Manson, who is in the middle of a divorce from dancer Dita Von Teese. The following year, Manson and Wood broke up.
June 2009: In an interview published by TO SPIN, Manson says that he injured himself after breaking up with Wood and that he fantasizes about her injury. “I have fantasies every day about breaking a skull with a sledgehammer,” he says. His camp later claims that he is not serious and that he made the remarks in a spirit of theatrical exaggeration.
July 2009: Manson appears to be threatening violence against music journalists. “I am very different from what the press that will soon be killed has decided to manufacture,” he wrote in a blog post that is no longer online, responding to a derogatory statement from the press. “If another ‘journalist’ makes a chivalrous statement about me and my band, myself or with the help of my fans, I will greet them at home and find out how much I believe in their freedom of expression.”
November 2009: Manson launches the video for his song “Running to the Edge of the World”, which contains a scene in which he seems to have brutally beaten a female character who, several critics note, seems to resemble Wood.
January 2010: Once they reconciled, Manson and Wood would be engaged; he proposes on stage. In a few months, they broke up again.
November 2016: In a Rolling Stone interview, Wood speaks publicly for the first time about the rape “by a significant other while we were together.” It also refers to “physical, psychological, [and] sexual abuse ”by a partner. It does not detail the identity of the alleged perpetrator.
October 2017: Manson’s double bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, is accused of rape. Manson, after saying that he “knew nothing about these accusations until recently” and was “saddened” by the “obvious suffering” of the alleged survivor, separates from Ramirez. Ramirez issued a statement claiming that “he was only recently informed about these allegations over 20 years ago” and claims: “I do not accept any non-consensual sex.”
February 2018: Comedian and actor Charlyne Yi accuses Manson of harassing women and making racist comments on the TV drama set Home. Manson does not comment on the allegations.
In the same month, again without naming a name, Wood details the experiences of sexual assault and domestic violence in the testimony before Congress. “My experience with domestic violence has been this,” she says, “the toxic mental, physical and sexual abuse that started slowly but increased over time, including threats to my life, severe lighting and brainwashing. , waking up with the man who claimed to love me, violating what he thought was my unconscious body. ”
August 2018: The Los Angeles County Prosecutor’s Office says in a court that it refused to pursue a case against Manson. According to the file, a police report filed against Manson earlier that year charged him with unspecified sexual offenses dating back to 2011. In the case, the district attorney’s office said it refused to pursue the case because the statute of limitations had expired and it expired. to the “absence of corroboration”. Through his lawyer, Manson categorically denies the allegations, calling them “completely delusional.”
April 2019: Wood testifies again about her experience with domestic violence, this time in front of a California Senate panel. Again, she refuses to call her alleged abuser. “The fear of being judged by society is debilitating, and the fear of reprisals from my aggressor is paralyzing,” she says. “I was diagnosed with complex PTSD, including dissociation, panic attacks, night terror, agoraphobia, impulse control, chronic pain in my body, among other symptoms.”