Evan Rachel Wood said a model who now claims that Wood pressured her to make sexual assault allegations against Marilyn Manson for years told her the singer had abused her — and Wood says she has the receipts to prove it.
In a declaration filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, Wood fought back against the assertion revealed by Manson's attorneys last week, saying that she never manipulated the model, Ashley Morgan Smithline, into accusing him of raping her and suggested it was Manson who pushed her to change her story.
"I never pressured or manipulated Ashley Morgan Smithline to make any accusations against [Manson]," Wood said, "and I certainly never pressured or manipulated her to make accusations that were not true. It was Ms. Smithline who first contacted me in March 2019."
Wood, who was engaged to Manson in 2010, said she first became aware of Smithline when the model commented on a post she had made on March 11, 2019, with statements she made about being a survivor of abuse. At the time, Wood had not publicly named Manson as the person who allegedly abused her, nor had she ever met or talked to Smithline. In her comment, the model wrote, "when he had me captive in the stupid ballet studio, i cringed hearing him brag about replaying that scene from rules of attraction to you," according to the court filing, which included an image of the post.
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