2009 – DECEMBER 9: Marilyn Manson tells SPIN magazine that he and Evan Rachel Wood have reunited. 2010 – JANUARY 5: Marilyn Manson proposed on stage to Evan Rachel Wood – also his 41st birthday. 2010 – AUGUST: Marie Clare runs a Q&A with Evan where she says that her wedding ceremony will be at night.Fot. Invision/Invision/East News Marilyn Manson postanowił pozwać Evan Rachel Wood. Aktorka oskarżyła go o wiele przestępstw natury seksualnej, znęcanie się fizyczne i psychiczne, a także grooming. Wood skomentowała pozew, który wytoczył jej MansonManson początkowo wystosowywał oświadczenia, w którym podważał słowa swojej byłej narzeczonej, ale na początku 2022 roku postanowił publicznie oskarżyć ją o zniesławienie, a także fałszowanie dowodów - w tym listu od agenta FBI. Pozew wpłynął do Sądu Najwyższego w Los Angeles. Aktorka promuje obecnie swój film dokumentalny "Jak feniks", w którym opowiada o swoich doświadczeniach ze związku z Mansonem, a także pokazuje walkę o ratyfikację ustawy "Phoenix Bill" i pomaga innym ofiarom przemocy domowej. Wood wyjaśniła w rozmowie z prowadzącymi The View, że nie zamierza się tym przejmować: Jestem pewna, że prawda jest po mojej stronie, a ten pozew został wystosowany w momencie, gdy światło dzienne ujrzy mój dokument. To celowe zagranie. Nie zrobiłam tego filmu, by oczyścić swoje imię - robię to po to, by chronić ludzi. Żeby bić na alarm, że są na tym świecie ludzie niebezpieczni. On jest jedną z takich osób. Nie chcę, żeby ktokolwiek się do niego zbliżał. Możecie sobie o mnie myśleć co chcecie. Ja się nie cofnę. Pozew Mansona ma trafić przed ławę przysięgłych. W nim, Manson i jego prawnicy oskarżają Wood o włamanie się do komputerów muzyka i "korzystanie z fikcyjnego konta e-mail, z którego tworzyła dowody przeciwko Mansonowi". Kolejne oskarżenia są równie ciężkie - według nich, Wood podszywała się pod agenta FBI w celu tworzenia fikcyjnych historii o tym, że domniemane ofiary Warnera były w niebezpieczeństwie. Wokalista postanowił wypowiedzieć się na temat całej sprawy na Instagramie, pisząc: Nadejdzie czas, kiedy będę mógł się podzielić większą ilością informacji na temat ostatniego roku. Do tego czasu będę musiał pozwolić faktom mówić za siebie. Na HBO Max 14 marca 2022 roku pojawił się natomiast wspomniany film "Jak feniks", z którego dowiadujemy się że Evan Rachel Wood dokonała aborcji w trakcie związku z Mansonem. Kamil Kacperski Redaktor antyradia Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood. E. Charbonneau/Getty Images In the documentary, Wood claims that Manson "essentially raped her" when they filmed the music video for his 2007 song "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)." Wood said in the documentary she and Manson "had discussed a simulated sex scene, but once the cameras
US actress Evan Rachel Wood has claimed singer Marilyn Manson "horrifically abused" her during their three-year relationship in the late noughties. Manson and Wood began dating in 2007 and got
23 stycznia na Sundance Film Festival odbyła się premiera filmu dokumentalnego „Phoenix Rising”, który koncentruje się na życiu i karierze Evan Rachel Wood, aktorki, która przez kilka lat była z związku z Marilynem twierdzi, że w teledysku do utworu „Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)”, w którym zagrała u boku ówczesnego męża, została zgwałconą przed kamerą.– Zanim zaczęliśmy kręcić, omawialiśmy symulowaną scenę seksu, ale kiedy kamery zaczęły się pracować, zaczął mnie penetrować naprawdę. Nigdy się na to nie zgodziłam. Na planie panował kompletny chaos, a ja nie czułam się bezpieczna. Nikt się mną nie opiekował. Kręcenie tego klipu było naprawdę traumatycznym przeżyciem. Nie wiedziałam jak się bronić ani jak odmawiać, ponieważ byłam nauczona, by nigdy nie odpowiadać – by po prostu przetrwać. Czułam się obrzydliwie, jakbym zrobiła coś haniebnego. Zostałam odurzona alkoholem i zmuszona do aktu seksualnego, który został sfilmowany i wykorzystany komercyjnie. To wtedy Manson popełnił przeciwko mnie pierwsze przestępstwo i zasadniczo zostałam zgwałcona przed kamerą – mówi w filmie oświadczeniu dla serwisu NME adwokat Mansona, Howarda Kinga, powiedział:– Ze wszystkich fałszywych zeznań, które Evan Rachel Wood złożyła na temat Briana Warnera, to to o tworzeniu teledysku „Heart-Shaped Glasses” 15 lat temu jest najbardziej bezczelny i najłatwiejszym do obalenia, bo na planie przebywało wielu świadków. Evan była w pełni zaangażowana w tworzenie obrazu, zarówno na planie jak i przed nim. Miała także wpływ na montaż i postprodukcję teledysku. Nakręcenie symulowanej sceny seksu zajęło kilka godzin. Brian nie uprawiał seksu z panią Evan na tym planie, i ona wie, że to prawda.Actor Evan Rachel Wood on Monday publicly accused rocker Marilyn Manson for the first time of abusing her while they dated in the mid-to-late 2000s. In an Instagram post, Wood alleged that Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, began “grooming” her when she was a teenager and “horrifically abused” her for several years.The actor Evan Rachel Wood has, again, spoken out publicly about surviving an abusive relationship. And this time, she's naming names: The man she says groomed and abused her is washed-up Goth-rock dork Brian Warner, who prefers to be known as Marilyn Manson. Multiple other women have now spoken out, too, detailing horrifying allegations of when all the evidence was right there in front of our faces, did the music industry let him get away with his violent, narcissistic misogyny for so long?Hopefully no one in the music industry has the nerve to feign surprise. Manson himself told us everything we needed to know long ago. So why, when all the evidence was right there in front of our faces, did the music industry let him get away with his violent, narcissistic misogyny for so long?Want more articles like this? Follow THINK on Instagram to get updates on the week's most important cultural analysisThat Manson was reported to be Wood's abuser is one the worst-kept secrets in the music industry. Wood has repeatedly opened up about the abuse she has suffered in her life, and while she didn't name anyone, it didn't take Olivia Benson-level investigative skills to hypothesize whom she might be talking about. Wood testified before the California Senate that the man who abused her began grooming her when she was just 18. She said he physically abused her, deprived her of sleep, starved her and stalked her when she tried to leave him, calling her incessantly, she are more than just breadcrumbs: Woods began publicly dating Manson when she was just 19 and he was 36. Yes, love comes in many different forms, but we should all pause and frankly worry when we see a fully grown man dating a teenager — especially when the man begins to speak about all of the ways he manipulates, demeans and harms Manson did just that. For more than a decade, he has been upfront about his misogyny and abusive behavior. In a 2009 interview with Spin magazine, conducted shortly after his breakup with Wood, Manson said he called Wood 158 times while self-mutilating and then blamed her for it. "I wanted to show her the pain she put me through," Manson said. "It was like, 'I want you to physically see what you've done.'"That lines up with Wood's account of an abusive man who refused to let her leave. And even if it didn't, Manson was telling on himself: Self-harming and then blaming someone else is a classically manipulative Manson didn't stop there. He told the Spin magazine writer — in an interview that one imagines he hoped Wood would read — that he fantasized about murdering her. "The song 'I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies' is about my fantasies," Manson said. "I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer."Somehow, that wasn't enough to make all of the adults in the room — the music journalists and editors, the record company executives and the radio DJs — pause and ask themselves why they were continuing to promote such a dangerous man.(In 2020, Manson's team told the music blog Metal Hammer that his 2009 Spin interview shouldn't be taken literally: "The comments in Spin where Manson had a fantasy of using a sledgehammer on Evan ... was obviously a theatrical rock star interview promoting a new record, and not a factual account.")It's always been easier, it seems, to write Manson off as a joke. He is, after all, a grown adult who dresses up in white face paint and stylized contact lenses to make himself appear threatening, whose song lyrics include the trying-to-shock drivel one might expect from an angsty teen. He and his bandmates named themselves after serial killers — edgy! It would all be supremely embarrassing behavior from a teenager, let alone a man who is now well into middle the theatrics also give him an excuse for very real bad behavior. Manson may be a cringey attention-seeker, but that doesn't make his alleged treatment of Wood (or of the other women who say he abused them) any less harmful. And it doesn't make the entertainment industry's decision to ignore his comments any less harmful to women of the men felled by the #MeToo movement were highly effective at hiding their true colors. They supported progressive and feminist causes. They said all the right things about women in the workplace. They were outwardly respectable, stand-up guys who used that facade to conceal their bad if a man wears silly makeup and puts on an aggressive stage persona, women and girls still absolutely have the right to safety and Manson. He was outwardly misogynistic. He spoke openly about at least some of the ways he may have abused, threatened and harassed Wood. And maybe that was part of the problem: Even though Wood was barely out of childhood when she met Manson, perhaps people assumed she knew what she was getting into. This "what did you expect?" reaction is one of the many ways we shame women into staying in abusive situations and make it harder for them to speak about their experiences if they do leave. Because even if a man wears silly makeup and puts on an aggressive stage persona, women and girls still absolutely have the right to safety and was a teenager dating a man whom millions of people listened to and admired, even after he went on ugly sexist rants ("If you wanna get a man, spread your legs," he said his father taught him. "And if you wanna keep a man, shut your f---ing mouth"), punched a woman in the head during a show, boasted about buying high heels for his infant goddaughter, claimed to have put his gun in a journalist's mouth and publicly fantasized about bashing Wood's head in. Magazines interviewed him. MTV and radio stations put his videos and songs on heavy rotation. Agents, bookers and producers worked with him. Even after his bad behavior could no longer be denied, nearly everyone surrounding him broadcast one clear message: This is wasn't OK, and it was Wood and the other women Manson is accused of abusing who say they paid the price. Now, finally, Manson's label has dropped him. But while his powerful longtime enablers are finally recognizing that Manson is the villain in this story, they're conveniently dodging responsibility. The truth is Manson wasn't hiding. He's a monster of an entire industry's Twigs' lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf shows how racism makes it harder for a victim to leaveAmy Dorris' Trump sexual assault allegation deserves America's full attentionWhy more and more women are permanently rethinking drinkingJill FilipovicJill Filipovic is a journalist and the author of "OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind" and "The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness."
The Muddiness of Marilyn Manson's Attempt to Discredit Evan Rachel Wood's 'Phoenix Rising' Doc A lawsuit filed earlier this month claims the doc, which just dropped on HBO, is "a one-sided
Evan Rachel Williamson/Getty ImagesEvan Rachel Wood said Marilyn Manson "essentially raped" her when they filmed a music video together in said she was told there would be simulated sex, but Manson did it for real without her has denied allegations of abuse by Wood, with whom he was previously in a Rachel Wood said that her ex-fiancé Marilyn Mason, whose real name is Brian Warner, "essentially raped her" when they filmed a music video together in made the allegations in the new two-part documentary, "Phoenix Rising," which screened a the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday attended by the documentary, which will premiere in March on HBO (Sundance showed only part one), Wood said that filming the video for the 2007 Manson song "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" did not happen in the way it was pitched to her."We had discussed a simulated sex scene, but once the cameras were rolling, he started penetrating me for real," Wood said in the documentary, which is directed by Amy Berg ("West of Memphis"). "I had never agreed to that.""I'm a professional actress. I have been doing this my whole life. I'd never been on a set that unprofessional in my life up until this day," she continued. "It was complete chaos and I did not feel safe. No one was looking after me. It was a really traumatizing experience filming the Manson and Evan Rachel Charbonneau/Getty Images"I didn't know how to advocate for myself or know how to say no because I had been conditioned and trained to never talk back — to just soldier through. I felt disgusting and like I had done something shameful, and I could tell that the crew was very uncomfortable and nobody knew what to do."I was coerced into a commercial sex act under false pretenses. That's when the first crime was committed against me and I was essentially raped on camera," Wood added in the attorney, Howard King, responded on Monday to Wood's comments in a statement to Insider, denying that the two had sex on set."Of all the false claims that Evan Rachel Wood has made about Brian Warner, her imaginative retelling of the making of the 'Heart-Shaped Glasses' music video 15 years ago is the most brazen and easiest to disprove, because there were multiple witnesses," the statement began."Evan was not only fully coherent and engaged during the three-day shoot but also heavily involved in weeks of pre-production planning and days of post-production editing of the final cut," the statement added. "The simulated sex scene took several hours to shoot with multiple takes using different angles and several long breaks in between camera setups."Brian did not have sex with Evan on that set, and she knows that is the truth," the statement 2007 music video features Wood wearing heart-shaped sunglasses. In the documentary interview footage of Manson at the time, it features him saying that it was inspired by the poster from the 1962 Stanley Kubrick movie "Lolita," in which a man falls in love with an underage girl (Wood says she was 19 at the time the video was shot. Manson was 37).The video shows Wood, wearing the sunglasses, attending a Manson concert. They are later seen embracing in a sexual encounter. There are also shots of them laying on a bed as fake blood pours down on also said in the documentary that Manson was "clear" to her how she should talk about the video in interviews."I was supposed to tell people we had this great, romantic time," she said. "But I was scared to do anything that would upset Brian in any way. The video was just the beginning of the violence that would keep escalating over the course of the relationship."Evan Rachel Wood testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee in 2018 on behalf of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Clark/Getty ImagesThe pair first met in 2006 at a party at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Wood said in the documentary. The two made their relationship public in 2007. They were briefly engaged before their relationship ended in has previously made public allegations of abuse against Manson, including that he groomed her and he "horrifically" abused her as a teenager. Manson has denied these one of the documentary, titled "Don't Fall," chronicles the backstory of Wood's relationship with Manson and shows her efforts to launch the Phoenix Act, a bill that extends the statute of limitations for domestic-violence survivors to pursue charges against their abusers. Woods and other victims' efforts led to California extending the statute from one to three years to three to five years."It's time we finally tell the whole story... and for the survivors to take back ownership of their stories," Wood said of the documentary in the virtual Q&A following the screening Sunday said in the same Q&A that part two will not just feature Wood but other women who say Manson allegedly abused them."I'm an intensely private person, having a documentary made about me is truly the last thing that I would want if you know me," Wood added in the Q&A. "But it's time for me to tell the truth. It's time to finally tell my side. I can't have it told for me anymore.""And people are going to believe whatever they are going to believe, it's not my job to convince people," she continued. "I'm not lying. It's my job to tell the truth, and that's what I've done. It's all I can do."Read the original article on InsiderA fourth woman has sued Marilyn Manson claiming sexual abuse. Evan Rachel Wood. Smithline is the fourth woman to sue the rock singer, after Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco, Warner's
View author archive February 6, 2021 | 11:23am Enlarge Image Evan Rachel Wood has much more to say about ex-lover Marilyn Manson, who she has accused of brainwashing and torturing her. Steve C Mitchell/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Evan Rachel Wood has much more to say about ex-lover Marilyn Manson, who she has accused of brainwashing and torturing her. Now the “Westworld” Emmy nominee claims the rocker is an anti-Semite and a racist. Wood, 33, shared the details Friday on her Instagram story, alleging the 52-year-old Manson spit out that she was “a Jew” and told her that she was lucky she wasn’t “blood Jewish” since her mom had converted to Judaism, the Daily Mail reported. The actor posted three photos of Manson’s tattoos — two on his arms, one on his chest — that she described as Nazi symbols. Another woman, Ashley Lindsay Morgan, alleges the musician once asked her to buy Nazi memorabilia for him in Asia. Wood shared a screenshot of a skull-and-crossbones, comparing the symbol to the tattoos on Manson’s arms. “Totenkopf is German for ‘death’s head’ and typically refers to a skull-and-crossbones image,” she wrote on the now-deleted story. “During the Nazi era, Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS) adopted one particular Totenkopf image as a symbol.” And she posted a screenshot from Manson Wiki, a fan website, that claims the chest tattoo is an M-swastika. Manson even drew “swastikas over my bedside table when he was mad at me,” wrote Wood, who dated Manson from 2007 to 2010. Wood also claimed Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, was fond of the N-word. “I heard the ‘n’ word over and over,” she wrote. “Everyone around him was expected to laugh and join in. If you did not or (god forbid) called him out, you were singled out and abused more.” Wood wrote that she had “never been so scared in my life.” Since Wood publicly accused Manson a week ago, nearly a dozen woman have echoed her allegations of physical and sexual abuse. Despite Manson’s vehement denial of the accusations, he has been dropped by his manager, record label and talent agency.by Mike Walters Posted on May 25, 2023 at 2:30 am. ‘Westworld’ star Evan Rachel Wood has agreed to give up custody of her son, following alleged threats from Marilyn Manson after accusing the rocker of abuse. According to new legal documents obtained by The Blast, the actress and her ex-boyfriend — Jamie Bell — have agreed to have their
Marilyn Manson szykuje się do procesu z byłą partnerką Evan Rachel Wood, którą oskarżył o zniesławienie. Będziemy mieć powtórkę ze sprawy Johnny’ego Deppa i Amber Heard? Tak uważa autorka twittów, które od piątku rozgrzewają internet do białości. Jej zdaniem prawne zwycięstwo Deppa stanowi „niebezpieczny precedens”, na którym mężczyźni oskarżeni o nadużycia wobec kobiet mogą opierać się w sądzie. Marilyn Manson vs. Evan Rachel Wood Na początku 2021 roku Evan Rachel Wood oskarżyła swojego byłego partnera Marilyna Mansona o psychiczne i fizyczne znęcanie się nad nią. Niedługo potem premierę miał wyreżyserowany przez Amy Berg dokument „Jak feniks” („Phoenix Rising”), w którym aktorka opowiedziała o relacji z kontrowersyjnym artystą. Mówiąc o koszmarach, których doświadczyła, oskarżyła ekspartnera o gwałt na planie teledysku. Muzyk początkowo wystosowywał oświadczenia, w którym podważał słowa 34-latki, jednak w marcu 2022 roku zdecydował się skierować sprawę na drogę sądową. Jego prawnicy złożyli do Sądu Najwyższego w Los Angeles pozew przeciw Wood, w którym oskarżają ją o zniesławienie i fałszowanie dowodów ( listu od agenta FBI). 53-letni gwiazdor krótko skomentował sprawę na Instagramie. Nadejdzie czas, kiedy będę mógł się podzielić większą ilością informacji na temat ostatniego roku. Do tego czasu będę musiał pozwolić faktom mówić za siebie – napisał. Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard W tak zwanym międzyczasie bardzo dobry kumpel Marilyna Mansona, Johnny Depp, wygrał proces o zniesławienie, który wytoczył byłej żonie Amber Heard. Prawdopodobnie wszyscy pamiętają okoliczności tej sprawy, ale dla porządku przypomnijmy: w 2018 roku aktorka napisała dla „Washington Post” głośny felieton, w którym wyznała, że była ofiarą przemocy, zarówno psychicznej, jak i fizycznej. W tekście nie wymieniła nazwiska sprawcy, ale dla wszystkich oczywiste było, że mówiła o byłym mężu. Ten pozwał ekspartnerkę, a batalia sądowa, która rozpoczęła się w kwietniu bieżącego roku, nazywana jest przez media „procesem dekady”. Sprawa, relacjonowana na żywo przez media i szeroko komentowana w mediach społecznościowych została rozstrzygnięta na niekorzyść aktorki. 1 czerwca ława przysięgłych uznała, że Amber Heard jest winna zniesławienia Johnny'ego Deppa. Manson vs. Wood a Depp vs. Heard: co łączy te przypadki? Co łączy przypadek Mansona z historią Deppa? Choć zarzuty i okoliczności są zupełnie inne, istnieje wiele podobieństw – twierdzi autorka twittów, które od piątku rozpala internet do czerwoności. W szeregu wpisów dokonano porównania pozwu o zniesławienie, który Marilyn Manson złożył przeciw swojej byłej partnerce Evan Rachel Wood, ze sprawą Johnny'ego Deppa i Amber Heard. Przeprowadzona analiza daje podstawy, by sądzić, że prawne zwycięstwo Deppa stanowi „niebezpieczny precedens”, który mężczyźni oskarżeni o nadużycia wobec swoich partnerek, mogą wykorzystywać w sądzie. Zresztą od momentu ogłoszenia wyroku w sprawie Depp vs. Heard z wielu stron płyną głosy, że postanowienie sądu może być brzemienne w skutkach dla wielu kobiet. Jestem jeszcze bardziej rozczarowana tym, co ten werdykt oznacza dla innych kobiet. To pomyłka. Cofnęliśmy się do czasów, kiedy kobieta, która przemówiła i zabrała głos, mogła zostać publicznie zawstydzona i upokorzona. Decyzja sądu odsuwa ideę, że przemoc wobec kobiet należy traktować poważnie – komentowała sama zainteresowana orzeczenie przysięgłych. Czy faktycznie przewidywania znajdą pokrycie w rzeczywistości? Przekonamy się pewnie już niedługo, kiedy sprawa Manson vs. Wood trafi na wokandę. Zobacz także: On July 1, a Twitter thread by Kamilla (@k4mil1aa) with claims about singer-songwriter Marilyn Manson's alleged abuse towards actress Evan Rachel Wood went viral. The user who claims to be a There’s a running theme in Phoenix Rising, the two-part documentary on Evan Rachel Wood’s story of domestic and sexual abuse by shock rocker Marilyn Manson, of evidence. Wood, a 34-year-old actor, has old photos from the early stages of her relationship with Manson, whom she met as an 18-year-old in 2006 (he was 37) – cherubic and teenage before, atrophied and vacant film selects from journal entries recounting her emotions as he turned her against friends and family. There are so many press and paparazzi photos of them together, which makes public fascination with the pair – a gorgeous Hollywood Lolita with middle America’s nightmare in goth makeup – feel even more queasy now. During filming from 2019 until Wood publicly named Manson, given name Brian Warner, on Instagram in February 2021, several other women and former Manson associates come forward with details either mirroring her experience or corroborating her memories riddled by the repetitive trauma, sleep deprivation and drugs she says Manson forced on can’t stop thinking about this evidence; most women don’t have near the documentation Wood does, as confirmation or support for their own memories, let alone as material for authorities. As we have seen time and again with first-person accounts stemming from the revelations of the #MeToo movement, there is power and catharsis in disclosure, in telling one’s story. But for all Wood’s personal testimony, her processing of years of memories through the language of trauma and therapy for herself and for us, the pursuit of legal action – the backbone of Phoenix Rising’s narrative – comes down to documentation, files, photos, a the star of HBO’s Westworld, Wood has considerable power in her own right, and little incentive to accuse Manson for the sake of publicity, as he has claimed in a defamation lawsuit filed earlier this month (conveniently timed, as Wood told The Cut earlier this week, to the release of the documentary). So it’s disheartening to see, over the course of three hours of film covering months of working through the system, how little changes and how much comes back down to perceived trustworthiness of one’s story. To date, 16 women have accused Manson, 53, of sexual abuse – including the Game of Thrones actor Esme Bianco, whose story shares striking similarities with Wood’s – and four have sued for sexual assault. Manson has denied all allegations and has not been charged with a crime. His defamation lawsuit alleges Wood and her friend, the activist Ilma Gore, concocted a conspiracy to defame him and forged an FBI letter to shore up Wood’s allegations. (Gore, Wood told the Cut, is no longer affiliated with The Phoenix Act, Wood’s non-profit to change the statute of limitations on abuse cases.)Phoenix Rising, directed by the Oscar-nominated Amy Berg (An Open Secret, The Case Against Adnan Syed), is the latest in a wave of documentary projects in the #MeToo era that uncovered patterns of abuse by beloved public figures, traced the long shadow of sexual trauma, and outlined the cultures that turned a blind eye. This includes Leaving Neverland, the 2019 HBO series on two thorough accounts of alleged child sexual abuse by Michael Jackson; Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes, on Ronan Farrow’s 2017 investigation of Harvey Weinstein, which helped ignite the outpouring of recognition that became #MeToo; On the Record, which follows former Def Jam executive Drew Dixon as she contemplates telling her story of alleged rape by the music mogul Russell Simmons to the New York Times. There’s Lifetime’s Surviving R Kelly, Showtime’s We Need to Talk About Cosby, and Athlete A, on the journalists, lawyers and gymnasts who exposed the systemic of abuse of cover-up of USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser. HBO’s Allen v Farrow, released last year, was both an investigation into allegations that director Woody Allen molested his daughter Dylan and a personal account of Dylan’s life warped by trauma, processing and years of public scorn and of these projects strike the balance between messiness of experience, the often cyclical nature of pain and abuse, and clarity of ethics better than others. Some are justifiably postured against retaliation. All deal with the legal and emotional consequences of coming forward against a prominent person. Different alleged crimes and context, of course, but they’re all dealing, fundamentally, with intimate trauma: how it presents and morphs, how one lives with it, how long it takes to begin to allegations are, to be clear, consistently horrifying. Among them: that Manson repeatedly drugged, manipulated and coerced her on the set of his 2007 music video Heart-Shaped Glasses and “essentially raped” her on camera; that Manson controlled her eating, raped her in her sleep after he gave her a sleeping pill, tortured her with an electric shocking device, beat her with “a Nazi whip from the Holocaust” while she was tied to a kneeler and fed her meth and other drugs without her knowledge. In concert with several other women, some of whom appear in the film in a meet-up, Wood outlines a pattern of love-bombing, isolation, control and Rising, like the others, hinges on disclosure, the catharsis that is telling one’s story, and the tricky navigation of publicity. But it also feels like the outer limit of what a #MeToo documentary can do. Five years of listening, five years of hearing the same type of patterns and recognizing how predators operate within cultures and systems, how messy one’s personal life can be and still not detract from the violation. What do we do now? As the documentary depicts, Wood was successful in getting the Phoenix Act passed in California, which raised the statute of limitations on domestic violence felonies from three to five years and required police officers to undergo more training on intimate partner violence. She cooperates with a Los Angeles police investigation into Manson and gives an interview to the FBI, shown wordlessly in the Rachel Wood. Photograph: Olivia Fougeirol/APBut still it comes down to attention. By film’s end, fearful for her safety and hiding out with her child in Tennessee, Wood decides that issuing a public statement is the best course forward. “If there’s not public outrage about this and about the crimes that he’s committed, and if there aren’t people coming forward, then there’s no real incentive for law enforcement to do something,” she says over footage of her drafting a grenade of an Instagram post. “And we could just be waiting in line at the DMV for two years waiting for something to happen.”The Phoenix Act seems eminently reasonable, an opportunity to better shape laws to the human experience and what these films, long-form investigations, podcast, testimonials hammer home again and again: trauma is messy, idiosyncratic, mutable, chameleonic. One’s ability to see clearly is a slow process even with the privilege of therapy and time. “People underestimate the power of that kind of trauma and what it does to your body and your brain,” Wood told Trevor Noah on the Daily Show this week. “This is what the laws do not reflect: the effects of trauma on the brain.”Wood was in Manson’s orbit for close to four years; when she began work on the Phoenix Act amid the #MeToo movement, the statute of limitations in California was one to three years. “One to three years is nothing to a survivor,” she told Noah. “It’s nowhere near enough.”Manson is still free (and collaborating with Kanye West), as is his right, given that he’s never been charged with or convicted of a crime. Phoenix Rising, for all its messy and compelling personal elements, ultimately jabs at that fact. When the criminal justice system doesn’t account for the long tail of trauma, what do you do? What is fair, what is right? And is it worth it? Five years and many thematically similar documentaries in, we still don’t have good answers. Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 802 9999. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at Marilyn Manson faced a setback in court today in his ongoing defamation case against Evan Rachel Wood. Judge Teresa Beaudet threw out some of Manson’s claims from his original lawsuit, including Marilyn Manson has filed a lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood for defamation over the actor’s sexual abuse allegations against the American “shock rocker” born Brian Warner, filed the complaint in Los Angeles superior court on Wednesday. The complaint accuses Wood and her “on-again, off-again” partner Ashley “Illma” Gore, of depicting him as “a rapist and abuser – a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s successful music, TV, and film career.”Representatives for Wood and Gore did not respond to request for comment from Deadline, which first reported the and Gore appear in Phoenix Rising, a new documentary about Wood’s life and career that is scheduled to premiere on HBO this month. It also details Wood’s allegations against the documentary, Wood said that during a previously discussed “simulated sex scene” for the music video of Manson’s 2007 single Heart-Shaped Glasses, Manson “started penetrating me for real” and that she “had never agreed to that”.Wood said she was given absinthe on set, which affected her ability to refuse Manson’s alleged actions. Warner has denied raping Wood on the set of the music Wednesday’s filing, Manson accused Wood and Gore of “falsifying and spreading” allegations against him. He claims they pretended to be an FBI agent by “forging and distributing a fictitious letter from the agent, to create the false appearance” that Manson was under a federal criminal alleges that Wood and Gore “provided checklists and scripts to prospective accusers, listing the specific alleged acts of abuse that they should claim against Warner”.The suit accuses Gore of trying to obtain Manson’s login information to his computer, phone and email and claims that she created a fake email address to claim that Manson was sending pornography to addition to requesting a jury trial, Manson has accused Wood of inflicting emotional distress, violation of the Comprehensive Computer Data and Access Fraud Act, and impersonation over the a statement, Howard King, Manson’s attorney said: “Even though HBO and the producers have been made aware of these serious acts of misconduct, they have thus far chosen to proceed without regard for the facts. But the evidence of wrongdoing by Wood and Gore is irrefutable – and this legal action will hold them to account.” .