- Evan Rachel Wood said Marilyn Manson “essentially raped” her when they filmed a music video together in 2007.
- She said she was told there would be simulated sex, but Manson did it for real and without her consent.
- Manson has denied allegations of abuse by Wood, with whom he was previously in a relationship.
Evan Rachel Wood said that her ex-fiancé Marilyn Mason “essentially raped her” when they filmed a music video together in 2007.
Wood made the allegations in the new documentary, “Phoenix Rising,” in which she detailed allegations against Manson. Pitchfork reported the allegations in the documentary.
Insider has contacted Manson’s manager and lawyer for comment.
In the documentary, Wood said that filming the video for his song, “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand),” did not happen in the way it was pitched to her.
“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,” she said in the documentary, Pitchfork reported.
“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. 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.
“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.”
The pair first met in 2005, and first made their relationship public in 2007. They were briefly engaged before their relationship ended in 2010.
Wood has previously made public allegations of abuse against Manson, including that he groomed her and he “horrifically” abused her as a teenager. Manson has denied these allegations.