A new documentary about the musician Marilyn Manson, real name Brian Warner, contains a plethora of serious claims and allegations.
Marilyn Manson: Unmasked is showing on Channel 4 and declares it follows the singer’s life ‘from his meteoric rise as the self-proclaimed ‘Antichrist Superstar’ to the chilling abuse allegations that have engulfed his career’.
They got engaged in 2010, but their relationship ended soon afterwards, and in 2021, Wood made allegations claiming that Manson ‘started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years’. She also previously told a congressional committee that she had been raped and abused, but didn’t name the alleged perpetrator.
Manson denied the claims and later sued Wood for defamation and emotional distress, though last year Deadline reported that he dropped the suit and paid her $327,000 (£267,000) in legal fees.
Marilyn Manson: Unmasked goes over many of the allegations made against the singer. (Niels van Iperen/Getty Images)
Among her allegations, Wood said that she had been told that in the music video for ‘Heart-Shaped Glasses’, a reference to the poster for the Stanley Kubrick film of Lolita, there would be a sex scene between her and Manson.
However, she alleged that she’d been told cameras and lighting would be set up to make it difficult to see anything, but when they got on set, she claimed that Manson ‘just started pulling my clothes off’.
She said: “From there, it just didn’t stop. They yelled cut. The next thing I knew, the entire crew walked on set. And I was sitting on the bed naked, just crying.
“I felt so f**king violated, but I didn’t call it rape for like, many many years.”
Also appearing in the documentary is Manson’s attorney Howard King, who said it was ‘demonstrably false that Brian Warner raped Evan Rachel Wood while filming a music video’, describing the claim as ‘completely fabricated’.
Manson and his lawyers deny the allegations made against him in the documentary, and among those who spoke out is his former partner Evan Rachel Wood. (Frazer Harrison /2020 Getty Images)
Marilyn Manson: Unmasked will cover these claims and allegations made by others, including former fan Jennifer Pavao, who told the documentary that when she was in high school, the singer once asked her to send him pictures of her through a hotline set up so fans could talk to the band.
Pavao claimed that the singer signed one of her lunchboxes: “To Jen, you cum-guzzling gutter-slut, love Marilyn.”
She also alleged that when they spoke over the phone, he told her to ‘call me daddy’ and said the first time she saw a man’s penis was during an alleged incident where Manson is claimed to have exposed himself on stage.
