Who is Esme Bianco? 'GoT' actress says Marilyn Manson forced her to do cocaine and cut her torso with an ax
'Game of Thrones' actress Esme Bianco joins the long list of women who have come forward, starting last week, to detail the physical and psychological abuse they faced at the hands of singer-songwriter Marilyn Manson. "I support and stand with the survivors who have come forward today. When the time is right for me, I will have more to say about my own experience and will share my story in full," she shared last week on her Instagram feed hinting that she too was one of them who has lived through the horror and survived to tell her story.
After opening up about her gut-wrenching story to the Cut, Bianco joined the ranks of fellow actress Evan Rachel Wood, photographer Ashley Walters, models Sarah McNeilly and Scarlett Kapella, another artist named Gabriella, actress and model Ashey Lindsay Morgan, fashion entrepreneur Torii Lynn, musician Chløë Black, artist and writer Louise Keay Bell, queer fashion stylist Love Bailey, actress Charlyne Yi, Wold Alice band's lead singer Ellie Rowsell, and model-makeup artist Saint Sasha. All of them have come out as victims of the shock-rocker.
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Bianco played the role of Ros in 'Game of Thrones', where she played the character of an abused sex worker at Littlefinger's brothel. Part of how her character was written on the show mirrored the actress's personal life. Speaking about her alleged abuse at the hands of Manson, she told the Cut that members of his entourage were often witnessed his violent outbursts and her bruises. Bianco had met Manson in 2005 through his then-fiance, Dita Von Teese, whom she knew through working in the burlesque industry.
Von Teese said Manson wanted to cast her in 'Phantasmagoria', a horror film he had planned to make based on the works of Lewis Carroll. Von Teese and Manson's marriage ended in 2007 but he continued to be in touch with Bianco.
Their relationship was platonic at that point but it all changed in 2009 after he sent Bianco a plane ticket from her home in London to Los Angeles, as an invite to star in a music video for his song 'I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies.' He'd told her that it would be shot on a flip camera for a home-video feel and would involve Manson "kidnapping" Bianco in his home. Manson told her that she would need to "pretend to like being manhandled" at his hands. Bianco said that she spent those days in lingerie, didn't get any sleep and that Manson fed her cocaine instead of food.
She also revealed that she was tied to a prayer kneeler with cables, was lashed with a whip, and an electric sex toy called Violent Wand was used on her wounds, this was the same kind of "torture device" that Evan Rachel Wood said was used against her. The video was never released and despite constantly asking for the footage from that shoot, Manson did not share it with Bianco. She also said that they began a long-distance affair after some time and that they'd keep visiting each other in London and Los Angeles. Bianco said that he would bite her and cause bruising on her entire body, without consent and when she brought it up, he'd pass it off as "kinky" behavior.
Bianco had moved in with him after he invited her to do so. Her 'Game of Thrones' episode was already released and Manson would play her sex scene on the projector for guests, leaving her humiliated. "That's my girlfriend, she's a whore. Look, her tits are out," he said to people. Bianco also said that she lifted her skirt up and spanked her butt. Bianco lived with Manson for around two months and during this period, she drank heavily to cope up with the accompanying stress. Bianco said that she had entered a state of trance wherein she felt like "hovering above life like I was looking at it through a net curtain". She also revealed that he cut her torso with a knife repeatedly but she just lay there. "I didn't fight it," she said.
She also revealed an incident from 2011 when Manson chased her around the apartment with an ax. Walters, who also doubled up as Manson's personal assistant, revealed that she was witness to this act and said that the 'GoT' actress appeared to have a panic attack and was "visibly shaken up." Bianco escaped from Manson's house when he was sleeping in June that year and a month later, she sent him an email stating that she was breaking up with him. She also revealed that she suffered from night terrors and constant panic attacks and found it difficult to eat or sleep in the years following her breakup.
The Cut article states that Bianco had publicly told her story in a California senate but didn't reveal his name because of the terror that was deeply rooted in her soul. However, in the recent interview, she branded him a "serial predator" who "deserves to be behind bars for the rest of his life."