LOS ANGELES (AFP) – American actress Evan Rachel Wooden has accused goth rocker Marilyn Manson of raping her on digicam in the course of the filming of a music video for his hit single Coronary heart-Formed Glasses (2007).
Wooden, 34, made the allegations – which Manson denies – in Phoenix Rising, an HBO documentary premiering on the Sundance movie pageant on Sunday (Jan 23).
“We had mentioned a simulated intercourse scene. However as soon as the cameras had been rolling, he began penetrating me for actual,” stated Wooden. “I had by no means agreed to that.”
Former youngster actress Wooden started courting Manson – whose actual title is Brian Warner – in 2006 when she was 18 and he was 37.
Manson, now 53, stated Coronary heart-Formed Glasses was impressed by seeing Wooden sporting the glasses made well-known on the film poster for late director Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962).
“I did not know learn how to advocate for myself or know learn how to say no, as a result of I had been conditioned and skilled to by no means discuss again, to simply soldier by means of,” stated Wooden, star of TV collection Westworld (2016 to current).
“I might inform that the crew was very uncomfortable and no person knew what to do. I used to be coerced right into a business intercourse act beneath false pretences… I used to be basically raped on digicam.”
Based on the documentary, Manson later pressured Wooden to inform journalists there had been no precise intercourse in the course of the filming of the video.
Wooden’s mom recounts listening to by means of a crew member that Manson was giving Wooden absinthe “and no matter else”, and that she was unable to consent when he went off script.