Marilyn Manson Responds To Abuse Allegations Calling Them ‘Horrible Distortions Of Reality’

Marilyn Manson, who’s real name is Brian Warner, responded to allegations of rape and abuse made against him.

Early on Monday Feb. 1, Manson’s ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood posted a statement on Instagram accusing Manson of abuse.

“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 industries that have enabled him, before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent,” read part of the statement.

Wood is one of five women who posted statements accusing Manson of abuse. Ashley Walters, Sarah McNeilly, Ashley Lindsay Morgan, and an artist who identified herself as Gabriella also detailed instances of emotional and physical abuse.

“He would tie me up for the first of many times and rape me,” alleged Gabriella. “I sobbed on the floor of the hotel room and when I looked at him, he was smiling. He told me he knew that’s how I loved him because of my reaction.”

“There was abuse, sexual violence, physical violence and coercion. I still feel the affects every day. I have night terrors, PTSD, anxiety and mostly crippling OCD,” wrote Morgan. “He made me feel like him cutting me, burning me, his fist in my mouth was ‘our thing.’ There is so much more that happened.”

Wood also said her traumas led to depression, addiction, agoraphobia and night terrors. She said she attempted suicide twice and sought out treatment at a psychiatric hospital.

Manson responded to these accusations on Instagram later in the day on Monday.

“Obviously, my life and my art have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” he wrote. “My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how — and why — others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth.”

Manson’s wife, Lindsay Usich, liked the post.

In 2018, Wood gave a testimony in front of a House Judiciary Subcommittee to advocate for Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights Acts in all 50 states. While Wood did not mention Monson by name, she alleged that she endured  “threats against my life, severe gaslighting and brainwashing, waking up to the man that claimed to love me raping what he believed to be my unconscious body” among other instances of abuse.

Hours after Wood, Walters, McNeilly, Morgan and Gabriella made accusations, Manson’s record label, Loma Vista Recordings, dropped him from their label.

“In light of today’s disturbing allegations by Evan Rachel Wood and other women naming Marilyn Manson as their abuser, Loma Vista will cease to further promote his current album effective immediately,” the label wrote on Instagram. “Due to these concerning developments, we have also decided not to work with Marilyn Manson on any future projects.”

AMC Networks, the owner of the network Shudder that was set to show Warner as an actor in the upcoming Creepshow anthology, told Vanity Fair that they would not show the segment following Monday’s allegations.