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Marilyn Manson has denied Evan Rachel Wood’s allegation that he raped her on the set of his Heart-Shaped Glasses video shoot.

In the new HBO documentary Phoenix Rising, the first part of which premiered at the Sundance film festival on January 23, Wood states that she was fed absinthe on the video set to the point that she was barely conscious, and “essentially raped on camera” by her former fiancé (real name: Brian Warner).

“We had discussed a simulated sex scene,” Wood says in the Amy Berg-directed documentary, “but once the cameras were rolling, he started penetrating me for real. I had never agreed to that. 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.”

Manson’s lawyer Howard King has now denied Wood’s claims in a statement issued to The Guardian.

“Of all the false claims that Evan Rachel Wood has made about Brian Warner,” King says, “her imaginative retelling of the making of the Heart-Shaped Glasses music video 15 years ago is the most brazen and easiest to disprove, because there were multiple witnesses.

“Evan was not only fully coherent and engaged during the three-day shoot but also heavily involved in weeks of pre-production planning and days of post-production editing of the final cut. The simulated sex scene took several hours to shoot with multiple takes using...

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