One month after her lawsuit against Marilyn Manson was dismissed, model Ashley Morgan Smithline has filed a sworn statement rescinding her sexual abuse allegations, as she claims she was "manipulated" into accusing the rocker of psychological, sexual and physical abuse.
Smithline filed a declaration in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday saying she was pressured by actress Evan Rachel Wood and others to go public with the accusations she now says are "false."
"I succumbed to pressure from Evan Rachel Wood and her associates to make accusations of rape and assault against [Manson] that were not true," she writes in the declaration, which was obtained by PEOPLE. Although PEOPLE corroborated her story with multiple sources for our May 17, 2021 cover story, Smithline says she felt "pressured" by her attorney to speak about her accusations in a press tour.
The model claims she was "repeatedly gaslit" by Wood and others including Ashley Walters, a former assistant of Manson's who sued him for sexual assault and battery in 2021, Wood's girlfriend Illma Gore and Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco to believe she'd been abused in ways similar to the ways they claimed they had been (Bianco filed a lawsuit against Manson in 2021 that was settled in January. Manson filed a defamation suit against Wood and Gore last year)....
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