Hollywood actor Evan Rachel Wood on Monday accused musician Brian Warner, famously known as Marilyn Manson, of being a ‘dangerous man’ who subjected her to years of ‘horrific’ physical, sexual and mental abuse that started when she was a teenager.
Within hours of her post, Manson’s record label, Loma Vista Recordings, announced it was cutting ties with the artist.
“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 said in a statement, according to AFP.
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Shortly after, the singer denied all accusations against him.
“Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” he wrote in an Instagram post.
Best known for her role in web series ‘Westworld’, Wood had previously alleged abuse by an ex-partner whom she chose not to identify. In an Instagram post on on Monday however she identified her abuser as Manson, noting that the singer started ‘grooming’ her when she was a teenager and repeatedly ‘brainwashed and manipulated’ her. She also reposted allegations by four other women of rape and sexual and psychological abuse by Manson, adding that she stood by fellow victims.
Manson rose to fame in the 1990s with his eponymous band, named after the Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe and the serial killer Charles Manson.
With ghostly pale make-up, heavy eyeliner, painted lips and slicked black hair, Manson’s controversial image after the group in was established in 1989 only increased their popularity.
Manson was engaged to Wood before they broke up in 2010. Their relationship was first reported in 2007, when Wood was 19.
