(Trigger warning for rape and abuse. Please proceed with caution.)
Sweet dreams are definitely NOT made of ANY of these.
A woman — identified only as Jane Doe — who was previously in a relationship with goth rocker Marilyn Manson has filed a lawsuit against him, alleging that he had “raped” her and subjected her to “degrading acts” of “exploitation, manipulation, and psychological abuse.”
Reports said that Doe and Manson met at a pre-Grammy party back in February 2011 before the singer (born Brian Warner) asked her to move in with him after just two weeks. According to Doe, he was “gentle and romantic at first,” but that things changed quickly. The lawsuit also details Manson’s allegedly increasing violent behaviour, including claims that he bit her neck “exceedingly hard,” and how she worried that her aunt would see the “bruises and other marks on her body from Warner’s physical abuse.”
It gets worse. Doe also said that the musician threatened to kill her and “bragged that he would get away with it” if he did take her life.
Manson had also told Doe about his relationship with ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood, and how “he had wanted to kill her” and that he allegedly tied the actress — who went public in February about Manson abusing her — to a chair and aimed a gun at her.
Wood herself admitted these things being done to her by Manson, and both women recount the same torture — sleep and food deprivation, murder threats, and physical as well as psychological abuse. Immediately after Wood named him, the musician denied her claims of abuse.
“Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” Manson wrote in a statement shared on Instagram.
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