I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I am done living in fear of retaliation, slander, or blackmail. I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many individuals that have enabled him, before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent. Manson issued a denial Monday evening on Instagram. Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misinterpret the past, that is the truth.
Wood met Manson at the age of 18, when he was 36 and married to Dita Von Teese, according to a Rolling Stone profile. After multiple breakups, they were engaged in for several months before eventually ending things. Four other women also came forward Monday to detail abuse allegations against Manson, one of whom has since deleted her original Instagram post.
Manson was previously accused of abuse in the past, but has consistently denied the claims. Kept away from certain friends or if I didn't he would threaten to come after them. I was told stories of others who tried to tell their story and their pets ended up dead.
In a more violent moment, she was "thrown up against a wall and he threatened to bash my face in with the baseball bat he was holding, for trying to get him to pick out a pair of pants prior to a music video.
Ashley Lindsay Morgan, who identifies as a former model and current med student, wrote how in and she was "given rules and got 'in trouble' for any behavior he didn't approve of. There was abuse, sexual violence, phyiscal violence, and coercion.
I still feel the affects everyday. Another woman, who goes by Gabriella on Instagram, said he once "demanded" they make a "blood pact" in a hotel room, which entailed breaking a wine glass and cutting both of their hands. While joining him on tour in Europe, Gabriella said "he would tie me up for the first of many times and rape me.
These are more than just breadcrumbs: Woods began publicly dating Manson when she was just 19 and he was Yes, love comes in many different forms, but we should all pause and frankly worry when we see a fully grown man dating a teenager — especially when the man begins to speak about all of the ways he manipulates, demeans and harms her.
And Manson did just that. For more than a decade, he has been upfront about his misogyny and abusive behavior. In a interview with Spin magazine , conducted shortly after his breakup with Wood, Manson said he called Wood times while self-mutilating and then blamed her for it. That lines up with Wood's account of an abusive man who refused to let her leave. And even if it didn't, Manson was telling on himself: Self-harming and then blaming someone else is a classically manipulative behavior.
But Manson didn't stop there. He told the Spin magazine writer — in an interview that one imagines he hoped Wood would read — that he fantasized about murdering her. Somehow, that wasn't enough to make all of the adults in the room — the music journalists and editors, the record company executives and the radio DJs — pause and ask themselves why they were continuing to promote such a dangerous man.
In , Manson's team told the music blog Metal Hammer that his Spin interview shouldn't be taken literally: "The comments in Spin where Manson had a fantasy of using a sledgehammer on Evan It's always been easier, it seems, to write Manson off as a joke. He is, after all, a grown adult who dresses up in white face paint and stylized contact lenses to make himself appear threatening, whose song lyrics include the trying-to-shock drivel one might expect from an angsty teen.
He and his bandmates named themselves after serial killers — edgy! It would all be supremely embarrassing behavior from a teenager, let alone a man who is now well into middle age. But the theatrics also give him an excuse for very real bad behavior. Manson may be a cringey attention-seeker, but that doesn't make his alleged treatment of Wood or of the other women who say he abused them any less harmful.
And it doesn't make the entertainment industry's decision to ignore his comments any less harmful to women everywhere. Many of the men felled by the MeToo movement were highly effective at hiding their true colors. They supported progressive and feminist causes.
They said all the right things about women in the workplace. They were outwardly respectable, stand-up guys who used that facade to conceal their bad acts. Even if a man wears silly makeup and puts on an aggressive stage persona, women and girls still absolutely have the right to safety and respect. Not Manson. He was outwardly misogynistic. He spoke openly about at least some of the ways he may have abused, threatened and harassed Wood.
And maybe that was part of the problem: Even though Wood was barely out of childhood when she met Manson, perhaps people assumed she knew what she was getting into. This "what did you expect?
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