Partially-two of the explosive documentary, ‘Phoenix Rising’, the ‘Westworld’ star particulars a harrowing night during which she accuses her ex of ‘torture’.
“I've each proper to be afraid,” Evan Rachel Wooden says to viewers who've tuned in to listen to extra from the actress about her tumultuous relationship with rock star, Marilyn Manson. Within the second a part of the documentary, Phoenix Rising, Evan is seen assembly with a gaggle of different ladies who’ve additionally accused Manson of bodily and emotional abuse. Over the course of the movie, Evan goes into element concerning the worst components of her relationship with Manson, together with what occurred when she tried to depart him.
“We had damaged up,” she says as she recounts her story throughout the assembly with different survivors. “He was calling me and calling me and I simply was making an attempt to defuse it, so I went over to the home.” The choice to confront Manson, whose actual identify is Brian Warner, allegedly turned violent, in line with Evan, who remembers being taken as much as his bed room, the place she claims he had a kneeler positioned in the course of the room. “I simply knew what was going to occur,” she explains.
Evan alleges that Manson tied her up and hit her “over and again and again with a whip,” a whip she remembers having a swastika on it. After allegedly hitting her in the identical place repeatedly, she claims he “shocked” her on the welts, in addition to her “non-public components.” When she might endure no extra, she relented to him and apologized to him, as a result of she knew it was what he needed “to listen to”. “I used to be begging for forgiveness and he’s cradling me and saying , ‘You perceive now,’” she remembers.
Then, in a weird twist, she claims he then “minimize open his hand” and had her drink his blood, earlier than chopping her hand open to do the identical. This accusation follows her earlier allegation partially one of many documentary that his initials have been branded onto the pores and skin above her vagina as an indication of loyalty to him.
By the point the movie reaches its conclusion, Evan exhibits that the model has healed, which appears befitting, because the final moments of the movie comply with the occasions that result in February 1, 2021 – aka, the day she made her first public assertion naming her “abuser” as Marilyn Manson. As for Manson, when filmmakers reached out to him for touch upon the documentary, he denied all of Evan’s accusations.
“Mr. Warner vehemently denies any and all claims of sexual assault or abuse of anybody,” his lawyer mentioned in a press release. “These lurid claims towards my consumer have three issues in widespread they're all false, alleged to have taken place greater than a decade in the past and a part of a coordinated assault by former companions and associates of Mr. Warner who've weaponized the in any other case mundane particulars of his private life and their consensual relationships into fabricated horror tales.”
Moreover, shortly earlier than the documentary premiered on HBO, Manson filed a defamation lawsuit towards Evan over her rape and abuse allegations. Within the paperwork, obtained by HollywoodLife on March 2nd, the singer accuses Evan and her activist affiliate Ashley “Illma” Gore, who additionally seems within the documentary, of getting “secretly recruited, coordinated, and pressured potential accusers.”
Since Evan has come ahead, no less than 15 different ladies have the identical to allege that the controversial rock star abused them as effectively, together with Recreation of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco. Within the movie, it’s famous that authorities have launched an investigation into the claims made by Evan and the opposite ladies, however as of the premiere, no expenses have been introduced towards him.