Evan Rachel Wood has come forward on Instagram and in a statement to Vanity Fair to name Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser.
The “Westworld” and “Thirteen” actress has often spoken about being a victim of domestic abuse, but she has never named her alleged abuser until now.
Wood and Manson dated in the late 2010s and became in engaged in 2010.
The relationship ended a year later.
Wood wrote that she was coming forward to name Manson as her alleged abuser because she is “done living in fear of retaliation, slander, or blackmail.”Wood’s statement reads in its entirety: “The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson.
He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years.
I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission.
I am done living in fear of retaliation, slander, or blackmail.
I
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