After Johnny Depp won his defamation battle against ex-wife Amber Heard, all eyes now turn to another defamation case, in which rocker Marilyn Manson has sued ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood over her abuse claims against him. Here's everything you need to know:
Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood revealed to Rolling Stone in 2016 that she was allegedly raped by a significant other. Later, while testifying in a 2018 congressional hearing, she said she is a victim of "toxic mental, physical, and sexual abuse, which started slow but escalated over time" and included the "man that claimed to love me raping what he believed to be my unconscious body." The actress fought to pass the Phoenix Act, a bill to extend the statute of limitations for sexual assault victims in California, and she detailed her experiences with abuse in a California Senate hearing.
Wood initially only referred to "my abuser." But in 2021, she said for the first time that "the name of my abuser is Brian Warner," a.k.a. Marilyn Manson, the rock star she dated on and off from 2006 through 2010, beginning when she was 18 and he was 37. "He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years," she alleged on Instagram.
In March 2022, HBO aired the documentary Phoenix Rising, in which Wood speaks further on her claims. Among the biggest bombshells was Wood ...
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