How She Disarmed Him

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[Blind Gossip] Actress Evan Rachel Wood of Westworld recently displayed a sad photo and shared some disturbing details about a past relationship.

She wrote:

2 years into my abusive relationship I resorted to self harm. When my abuser would threaten or attack me, I cut my wrist as a way to disarm him. It only made the abuse stop temporarily. At that point I was desperate to stop the abuse and I was too terrified to leave. #IAmNotOk

Evan Rachel Wood deleted her Twitter account, but here is a capture of the post and the photo.

While the perpetrator may have been a non-celebrity, some of male celebrities she has has dated/been engaged to/married include Edward Norton, Jamie Bell, Marilyn Manson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Alexander Skarsgard, Shane West, and Zach Villa.

Evan Rachel Wood has one child, a son, with actor Jamie Bell.

We do not know the identity of her abuser.

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Man: Marilyn Manson

Evan Rachel Wood is ready to reveal the partner who harmed her.

Wood, along with several other women, is now accusing singer Brian Warner a.k.a. Marilyn Manson of years of abuse.

Evan Rachel Wood began dating Marilyn Manson in 2007 when she was 18 and he was 36. They got engaged in 2010 but broke up less than a year later.

From Vanity Fair:

He “Horrifically Abused Me for Years”: Evan Rachel Wood and Other Women Make Allegations of Abuse Against Marilyn Manson

In the past, actor and activist Evan Rachel Wood has spoken about the alleged abuse she was subjected to by an unnamed ex. In an Instagram post early Monday morning, she put a name to the allegations.

“The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson,” Wood wrote. “He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. 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.”

In a show of solidarity, at least four other women posted their own allegations against Manson, detailing harrowing experiences that they claim included s*xal assault, psychological abuse, and/or various forms of coercion, vi*lence, and intimidation. Manson has denied similar allegations in the past.

Of course he denies it.

You may recall that Wood testified before a House Judiciary Subcommittee in 2018 as part of an effort to get the S*xual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights passed.

Wood, now 33 and a star of HBO’s Westworld, has said that she met shock-rocker Manson when she was 18 and he was 36.

“My experience with domestic vi*lence was this: Toxic mental, physical and s*xual abuse which started slow but escalated over time, including threats against my life, severe gaslighting and brainwashing, waking up to the man that claimed to love me r*ping what he believed to be my unconscious body,” she told the subcommittee, though she did not name a perpetrator at the time.

So now we know who it is.

For his part, Manson has said in the past that he had fantasies about Wood.

In 2009, in an article in Spin, Manson was quoted as saying of Wood, “I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.”

What the…?!

What kind of person expresses their desire to vi*lently harm another person as part of their fantasy?

Well, there’s actor Johnny Depp.

When Johnny Depp was angry at actress Amber Heard in 2013, he texted actor Paul Bettany about a fantasy he had about Amber.

Let’s burn Amber.

Depp followed that up with even more graphic fantasies.

Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f*ck her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.

Depp said that those texts were a joke he made because he was angry that Heard was trying to curb his alcohol and drug use.

An attorney questioned Depp about those texts as part of the Depp/Heard divorce proceeding.

Attorney: She didn’t like you when you were constantly high on drugs and alcohol did she?

Depp: She didn’t like me using alcohol and drugs because she had some delusional idea that they turned me into… this said monster.

We’ll let you decide what kind of person discusses drowning/burning/f*cking his girlfriend’s burnt corpse.

Coincidentally, Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson have been close friends for many years.

Johnny Depp plays in a band called The Hollywood Vampires and Manson regularly joins him onstage to sing.

Then there’s Armie Hammer, the abusive cannibal who left his girlfriends bruised and told them about his own fantasies.

He said to me he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it.

We’ll let you decide what kind of person discusses breaking off his girlfriend’s bones, barbecuing, and eating them.

Coincidentally, Armie Hammer costarred with Depp in the 2013 movie The Lone Ranger.

Anyway, back to Marilyn Manson and his sledgehammer comment.

Last year, when that comment was brought up by a music journalist, a representative for Manson noted that the comment was “obviously a theatrical rock star interview promoting a new record, and not a factual account.”

Riiight.

We’ll let you decide what kind of person discusses smashing in his girlfriend’s skull with a sledgehammer.

Augustmom was first with the correct response.

We wish Evan Rachel Wood – and all of the other women – well in their recovery!

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Evan Rachel Wood was not the only victim of Marilyn Manson’s terrible behavior.

Actress Esme Bianco has now filed a lawsuit formally accusing Marilyn Manson of abuse.

Esme Bianco is an English actress who has worked in movies and TV for fifteen years.

Bianco is best known for her role as Ros on the HBO series Game Of Thrones.

Let’s talk first about Bianco’s relationship with Marilyn Manson.

From The Cut:

Marilyn Manson ‘Almost Destroyed Me’

As a teenager in the late ’90s, Esmé Bianco was a huge Marilyn Manson fan. The 16-year-old had posters of him on her bedroom wall in Northern England* and taped pictures of him to her lunchbox.

…Seven years later, when Bianco got the chance to meet Manson in person, she was thrilled. But she says the encounter led to years of psychological torment and vi*lence that derailed her acting career and left her with physical scars and PTSD.

…Manson’s record label, Loma Vista Recordings; his longtime manager; and his talent agency, CAA, have all dropped him.

…[Bianco played] Ros, a character on Game of Thrones who works in a brothel and is abused in ways that mirror the actress’s personal life. Like Ros, Bianco’s alleged abuse often had an audience: members of Manson’s entourage who now say they witnessed his angry outbursts and Bianco’s bruises, along with the fans and industry executives who dismissed the singer’s vi*lent comments about women as just a part of his stage persona. “He’s told the world time and time again, ‘This is who I am,’” says Bianco. “He hid in plain sight.”

Their dynamic changed in 2009, after Manson sent Bianco a plane ticket from her home in London to L.A. so she could star in the music video for his song “I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies.” He explained that it would be shot on a flip camera for a home-video feel and would involve Manson “kidnapping” Bianco in his home. “I need to have a victim/lover,” he wrote in an email. Bianco believed that the job would be strictly professional. “You are gonna have to pretend to like being manhandled by me. Sorry,” Manson emailed her a few days before the shoot.

Once she arrived, she says, the line between art and reality immediately blurred. Bianco, who was 26 at the time, says she spent the next three days in lingerie, barely sleeping or eating, with Manson serving up cocaine rather than food. She remembers him losing his temper and throwing the camera at a smoke alarm. Soon, she says, he became vi*lent, tying her with cables to a prayer kneeler, lashing her with a whip, and using an electric s*x toy called a Violet Wand on her wounds — the same kind of “torture device” Wood has said was used on her. Bianco was terrified but tried to calm down by telling herself, It’s just Manson being theatrical. We are going to make great art.

Esme Biano was left with actual bruises and scars after making this “art.” Here is a photo she posted after the incident. The bruises and scars are real.

That music video was never released.

…In March 2011, two years after the music-video shoot, Manson asked Bianco to move in with him and promised to help her get a visa while she figured out her acting career.

…She had also recently filmed the first Game of Thrones season and was keen to land bigger Hollywood roles. There was nothing left to lose, so she thought, Why not jump off the cliff and hope that something catches me?

In her portrayal of Ros on Game of Thrones, Esme Bianco’s character was subjected to similar physical abuse. Here is a photo of her from the set of Game of Thrones. The bruises and scars shown below are not real.

You may recall that the character of Ros suffered a particularly brutal demise in Game of Thrones. King Joffrey used Ros as a live target, shooting her and pinning her to his bed with multiple crossbow bolts.

Within roughly a week, Bianco had left her husband and moved from London to Manson’s West Hollywood apartment. She says there was a very brief honeymoon period during which Manson showered her with attention, but he soon began to control every aspect of her life.

She says he dictated what she could wear (she says he preferred her in a short pencil dress with stockings), her sleep schedule (“I was often vi*lently shaken awake should I go to sleep without permission,” she told the California Assembly), and when she could come and go from the apartment (she says she didn’t have a key).

…“I basically felt like a prisoner,” says Bianco. “I came and went at his pleasure. Who I spoke to was completely controlled by him. I called my family hiding in the closet.”

And now the criminal charges.

From The Wrap:

Marilyn Manson Sued for S*xual Assault by ‘Game of Thrones’ Actress Esmé Bianco

Marilyn Manson and his former manager Tony Ciulla have been sued by “Game of Thrones” actress Esmé Bianco for s*xual assault and s*xual trafficking, accusing Manson of r*pe and s*xual battery.

Bianco accused Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, of abuse in an article with New York Magazine back in February, but the lawsuit includes greater detail of those accusations, and this is the first legal action taken against Warner since he was accused by numerous women, including “Westworld” star Evan Rachel Wood back in February.

The lawsuit, which was filed Friday United States District Court for the Central District of California and obtained by TheWrap, also names Ciulla and his management company Ciulla Management, accusing them of violating human trafficking laws by bringing her from London to the U.S. by enticing her for a Manson music video and a film role that never materialized. Ciulla dropped Manson as a client after working with him for 25 years.

The lawsuit says that Warner r*ped Bianco in or around May 2011, also giving her drugs and depriving her of sleep and food in order to weaken her physically and performing s*xual acts on her when she was unconscious or unable to consent. It also says Warner committed s*xual battery in Los Angeles in 2011 on multiple occasions, including “spanking, biting, cutting, and whipping Ms. Bianco’s buttocks, breasts, and gen*tals for Mr. Warner’s s*xual gratification,” all without her consent.

…Bianco first met Warner in 2005 and was asked to come to America in 2009 for a music video shoot but found that there was no crew when she arrived and was expected to stay with Warner rather than in a booked hotel.

…“In addition to these deprivations, Ms. Bianco was threatened and physically beaten by Mr. Warner. Mr. Warner repeatedly told Ms. Bianco that he would come to her room and r*pe her during the night,” the suit continues.

“He threw tantrums where he would destroy camera equipment and throw objects around the room. He forced Ms. Bianco to watch an extremely vi*lent movie that caused her to faint. He attempted to force her to perform s*xual acts on camera with another woman who was present throughout the shoot. Perhaps most horrifyingly, Mr. Warner locked Ms. Bianco in the bedroom, tied her to a prayer kneeler, and beat her with a whip that Mr. Warner said was utilized by the Nazis. He also electrocuted her.”

Marilyn Manson claims that all of these acts were consensual.

Kudos to all the brave women who are now speaking out!.

The National Domestic Vi*lence Hotline can help victims and survivors of domestic vi*lence. You can call 1-800-799-7233 or chat with an advocate on their website.