Yesterday WestworldEvan Rachel Wood allegedly public that singer Marilyn Manson (also known as Brian Warner) abused her in a previous relationship. As more women showed up, Starz and AMC announced an immediate end to their relationship with Manson, as they belonged to the TV series. American gods and Creepshow.
Manson has already given up the music label Loma Vista Records after Wood’s post on Instagram on Monday, claiming that Manson “horribly abused” her during their relationship and that she was “brainwashed and manipulated into obedience.” Today, Hollywood Reporter also confirmed that Creative Artists had given up on Manson. After Wood’s post, at least four other women came before with additional allegations of abuse.
“My aggressor’s name is Brian Warner, also known in the world as Marilyn Manson. He started taking care of me when I was a teenager and abused me horribly for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into obedience, ”Wood wrote. “I ended up living in fear of reprisals, slander or blackmail. I am here to expose this dangerous man and to shout the many industries that have allowed him, before destroying many lives. I stand by the many victims who will not be silent. “
Manson (38 years old at the time) and Wood (19 at the time) have been publicly revealed to be in a relationship back in 2007 and got hired in 2010, but split in the same year. While Wood explicitly acknowledged Manson as her alleged abuser, she previously discussed her history as a survivor of the abuse, including in the face of a US Judiciary Subcommittee in 2018, as part of a legislative impetus to adopt Declaration of the rights of survivors of sexual assault across the country.
“My experience with domestic violence is as follows: toxic physical, mental and sexual abuse, which started slowly but increased over time, including threats to my life, severe enlightenment and brainwashing, waking me up with the man who pretending to love me by violating what he thinks is my unconscious body, ”Wood said in a statement two years ago. She continued to speak before the California Senate Public Safety Committee in 2019 and, although she did not name her alleged abuser in any of the testimonies, context provided she is aligned with her relationship with Manson. You can follow some of the second testimony below, but in part, she said, “He broke me down by starvation, lack of sleep, and threats to my life, sometimes with deadly weapons, which would lead to me to have severe panic attacks where I could not breathe or stop trembling.
Now that Manson has been named by Wood, both Starz and AMC have also announced their intention to remove the singer-songwriter from the third and second seasons of American gods and Creepshow, respectively. Manson replied to the accusations of the actress who states “art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent statements about me are horrible distortions of reality.”
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Deadline reports that Starz will eliminate Manson’s only remaining appearance in American gods‘the third season like Johan Wengren, the lead singer of a Viking death metal band called Blood Death – which actually appeared in the fourth episode of the season, scheduled last night, “The Unseen”.
“Due to the accusations brought by Marilyn Manson, we decided to eliminate her performance from the remaining episode. he is, scheduled to air later this season, ”the network said in a statement to Deadline and then shared on social media. “Starz stands unequivocally with all victims and survivors of abuse.”
AMC will also eliminate Manson’s future appearances in the second season of the year Creepshow. The deadline reports that the episode will be shot, and the segment Manthe son was set to appear in will be replaced. Neither AMC nor Shudder have publicly commented on the allegations – however, when contacted by io9, an AMC spokesman confirmed that a segment with Manson to appear next season will be removed and will not air.
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