Evan Rachel Wood says Marilyn Manson told her to 'make dinner' after abortion: 'He didn't care'
Warning: This article contains references about rape and sex assault
More stories have come out about the disturbing abuse by Marilyn Manson. Actress Evan Rachel Wood revealed that her alleged abuser made her cook for him directly after her abortion in 2011. Wood who received an Emmy nomination for her role in “Mildred Pierce” said that away from the spotlight, she lived in a constant nightmare.
Wood shared that Manson refused to wear a condom, or use spermicides after unprotected intercourse. “From the beginning of our relationship, he always had an issue with whatever birth control I was using — and I went through, like, every type to see which one he liked, and he didn’t like any of them, so essentially he didn’t want me using birth control,” Wood says in the film ‘Phoenix Rising’ that premiered during the Sundance Film Festival in January this year.
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She became pregnant and after Wood decided to terminate the pregnancy she was shocked when Manson demanded her to cook him a meal right after the abortion. “He flew out for the abortion. The second it was over it was like, ‘Make me dinner.’ And I remember being like, ‘I’m supposed to be resting — my body has gone through this trauma … there’s aftermath here.’ And he didn’t care,” Wood said on camera.
The incident almost pushed her to take her own life. Wood also said that she even tried to kill herself. “I went into the bathroom and I took [a] glass and I shattered it on the floor and just started digging at my wrists as hard as I could,” Wood is seen telling her friend, artist and activist Illma Gore.
Wood’s attempt to take her life however unfortunate played out as a turning point in her life, “When I woke up, I felt different. I feel like whoever I was went to sleep and didn’t wake up that night, and this new version woke up and had to start rebuilding her life. I called my mom and I said, ‘I just tried to kill myself, and I need to go to a hospital, like, immediately,’ ” she said in the first part of the film.
The “Westworld” actress had previously talked about being in a traumatic relationship with an unnamed man in the press but it wasn’t until February last year when she first identified this person as Brian Warner AKA Marilyn Manson.
The first part of the film uncovered a series of explosive revelations made by Wood one of which was that Manson allegedly drugged her with all kinds of drugs from meth to sleeping pills and then raped her. “This is also when he started raping me in my sleep, I’d wake up, I just remember doing the mental math quickly and thinking, ‘Just stay, just stay asleep, don’t move, just don’t move.’ So I would just lie limp and still until it was over, and then I swear to God, he would just fling my leg and walk out of the room,” Wood says in the film’s second part.
The day that Wood pressed charges last year, many other women followed suit two of them are also a part of the second installment of the documentary premiering this March 15.