Phoenix Act: Last News

Evan Rachel Wood is rising from the ashes.

accused her former fiancé Brian Warner — otherwise known as the controversial goth rocker Marilyn Manson — as her abuser for the first time.But as the now 34-year-old Wood claims in “Phoenix Rising,” a feature documentary whose first half premiered Sunday night at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the signs had been apparent for years — and in at least one instance, viewed by nearly 30 million fans on YouTube.In the film, set to air in its entirety on HBO in March, Wood recalls her appearance in his 2007 music video for “Heart-Shaped Glasses,” which shows the couple having sex, or so it appears. While the song plays over these specific clips in the video, the documentary airs the sound of Wood, then 19, shouting in distress.“We had discussed a simulated sex scene,” Wood said.

Marilyn Manson.The actress filed a lawsuit against the 52-year-old singer, whose real name is Brian Warner, for alleged sexual abuse, assault and battery, and human trafficking, per court documents obtained by ET on Friday. ET has reached out to Manson's rep for comment.«As millions of survivors like myself are painfully aware, our legal system is far from perfect.

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Marilyn Manson‘s representatives have issued a statement on the artist’s behalf in response to questions about his past relationship with the actress Evan Rachel Wood.The response comes after Manson ended an interview with Metal Hammer in September after the publication asked about testimony Wood gave in front of the California Senate Public Safety Committee in April 2019. That testimony took place during a hearing for the creation of the Phoenix Act, which extends the statute of limitations on domestic violence felonies from three to five years.Wood spoke in her testimony about an abusive relationship she had been in for several years with a man she met in her late teens.