Marilyn Manson has denied shocking allegations from his ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood, after she claimed he 'essentially raped' her during a music video shoot, urged her to carve his initial into her pelvis, and decorated their home with Nazi propaganda knowing that she is Jewish.
Wood, 34, began her tumultuous relationship with 53-year-old Manson, real name Brian Warner, when she was just 18 — and she has since accused her of grooming her and abusing her.
The actress goes into more depth about the experience in Amy Berg's new documentary 'Phoenix Rising – Part I: Don't Fall,' which premiered on Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival and will air on HBO in March.
Manson's lawyers on Monday said that Wood's allegations of raping her in a music video were 'brazen' and easily debunked.
'Of all the false claims that Evan Rachel Wood has made about Brian Warner, 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,' said his lawyer, Howard King.
Evan Rachel Wood, pictured in 2007 with Marilyn Manson, has accused him of raping her on the set of a music video. On Monday, he denied her allegation
Woods also reveals that when she was 19, Manson allegedly raped her on camera in front of other people while making the 2007 music video 'Heart-Shaped Glasses'
Wood is seen in 2017 at the Emmy Awards. She was with Manson from 2007-11
'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 different angles and several long breaks in between camera setups.
'Brian did not have sex with Evan on that set, and she knows that is the truth.'
King did not address the other allegations made by Wood.
In the documentary, she says that during their four-and-a-half-year on-and-off relationship, Manson emotionally abused her, threatened her life, sexually assaulted her, separated her from her friends and family, and bombarded her with antisemitic symbols and messages.
Evan Rachel Wood has shared more horrific details of the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of ex-boyfriend Marilyn Manson (pictured together in 2007)
Wood (pictured in March 2020), now 34, began her tumultuous relationship with 53-year-old Manson, real name Brian Warner, when she was just 18
In the film, Wood describes growing up near Raleigh, North Carolina and being raised to push through things even when she was uncomfortable, according to USA Today.
In one case, that meant that when she was 14, she kissed a 23-year-old man on set for the 2003 film 'Thirteen' while a room full of people looked on.
'I remember not wanting to do it, but I knew that the character needed to and so it didn't matter what Evan wanted. It just had to be done,' she says in the film.
She continued to be a lost and insecure teenager, which she says made her a prime target for someone like Manson.
'I didn't know where to go, so I was the perfect candidate for somebody to pop up and say, 'Come with me,'' she says.
The pair met in 2006 when she was just 18 and he 37.
At the time, Manson was married to Dita von Teese, and Wood had a boyfriend — but Manson struck up a conversation with her and shared an interest in working with her.
It was under the guise of this professional relationship — Manson told Wood he wanted her to be in a film he was working on — that she went to his house one night and they drank absinthe.
The actress goes into more depth about the experience in Amy Berg's new documentary 'Phoenix Rising - Part I: Don't Fall,' which premiered on Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival
She says that at one point, he carved her initial into his skin and she carved his 'right next to my vagina to show him that I belonged to him'
She recalls how he suddenly kissed her, that he 'stuck his tongue down my throat... Everything went white and I just didn't know how to respond.'
Things escalated, and 'it ended with him on top of me and then it was over and I felt really weird and very icky. I wasn't even really attracted to him.'
But the two did end up dating, and she describes how he would give her odd compliments attached to insults and threats of violence, like 'you're so important to me I want to kick you.'
He's say other odd things, like 'I'm your vampire,' 'You are the blood in my heart' and 'I want to stay with you forever.'
Over time, she says, he isolated her from her friends and family.
'He has studied this,' says Wood's mother, Sara Lynn Moore, according to the Daily Beast. 'He's studied how to manipulate people. He's a predator — he's a predator.'
The abuse escalated, and at one point, Wood says they each carved the other's initials into themselves.
'Scarification and branding was part of it,' she says. 'He carved an E [into his skin] and I carved an M … as a way to show ownership and loyalty. And I carved it right next to my vagina to show him that I belonged to him.'
Manson also began showing an interested in Nazis — knowing full well that Wood herself is Jewish.
Wood previously spoke out about the tattoo he got during their relationship, which has four Ms in the shape of a swastika (seen)
'At one point, over the side of the bed where I slept, he wrote 'kill all the Jews' on our bedroom wall,' she said
On Instagram, she talked about 'humiliation' and 'blackmail' and how she was given 'large amounts of drugs and alcohol' when she was under 21
She says he would paint and fill his work with swastikas and other Nazi propaganda, which he also put around their home.
'At one point, over the side of the bed where I slept, he wrote 'kill all the Jews' on our bedroom wall,' she said.
He also told her that Hitler was 'the first rock star because Hitler was stylish, he was well spoken, and he knew how to manipulate the masses.'
She says he made fun of her for being Jewish, and also made fun of her when she got upset about his antisemitism.
Wood has spoken about his antisemitism before, and wrote on Instagram early last year how the 'he would draw swastikas over my bedside table when he was mad at me.'
'Because [my mom] converted and wasn't of Jewish decent [sic] he would say things like, 'that's better' because I wasn't 'blood Jewish,'' she said at the time.
She also revealed that during the course of their relationship, he got new tattoos, including a swastika on his chest and a skull and bones on his arm that looks like a Totenkopf, another Nazi symbol.
In the new documentary, Woods also reveals that when she was 19, Manson allegedly raped her on camera in front of other people.
She had agreed to be in his music video for 'Heart-Shaped Glasses,' but things did not go as expected.
'That's when the first crime was committed against me and I was essentially raped on camera,' she says (pictured together in 2007)
'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,' she says, according to Pitchfork.
'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
