Evan Rachel Wood details more alleged abuse by Marilyn Manson in Phoenix Rising documentary
The actor accuses the musician of "essentially raping" her on the set of the "Heart-Shaped Glasses" music video
In the new documentary Phoenix Rising, which premiered on January 23 at Sundance Film Festival, actor Evan Rachel Wood alleges that Brian “Marilyn Manson” Warner “essentially raped” her during the filming of a music video for the disgraced musician.
“It’s nothing like I thought it was going to be,” Wood reportedly says in the film, referring to the video shoot. “We’re doing things that were not what was pitched to me.”
“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,” Wood continues. “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. 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,” Wood concludes.