The second part of Phoenix Rising follows Wood after testifying in support of the Phoenix Act and up to 2021, when she went public with claims that Manson ...
A friend of mine who saw the first half at Sundance, a male friend of mine, called me after seeing the film and said he was so happy that he saw that because he said he felt he understood shame from a woman’s perspective for the first time. I think it affected me more on this film because of the state of the world right now and being in a more insular environment rather than being in a room with my colleagues and having an office and people to share the brunt of it with. Did you go out for comment to particular team members, and did that surprise you at all, given what you know about the industry? I didn’t really want to widen the lens too much; I didn’t really want to do a bunch of talking-head interviews. I respected both of their privacy in that, so we didn’t. But he’s seen the film; I sent it to him. But in order to get the audience to that place, we needed to tell a lot of backstory, and so that’s how it worked out. It was about how the story played out and what mirrored the other stories. So the story just kept getting bigger and bigger, and it was hard to just keep it to Evan’s story when there was so much else going on around her. It was basically that we knew who we could and couldn’t focus on, so that was how that worked. Basically, Evan told us that she was going to be meeting up with survivors and offered us the opportunity to film that. (In an appearance on The View on Monday, Wood said she was “not scared” and that “the truth will come out and that this is clearly timed before the documentary.”) During the film’s second part, she meets with other accusers and shares major claims against Manson, including that he raped her in her sleep and once tortured her with a whip.
Evan Rachel Wood shares abhorrent abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson in documentary "Phoenix Rising." Some correlate to her Jewish identity.
"Anger and outrage are appropriate responses in the face of bigotry and injustice," Hintz says. "Antisemitic views are learned beliefs, therefore they can be unlearned." Also: "If you're not in immediate danger, reach out to ADL," Reaves says. All we are concerned about is being right and being 'safe' and preserving our self-interest." "We lose objectivity and our ‘empathy system’ becomes compromised. In "Phoenix Rising: Part I: Don't Fall," Wood says Manson has an affinity for Adolf Hitler, stating he filled paintings with swastikas and Nazi imagery.
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And then our son has got this glam-rock weirdo for a mom." If you succeed, the kid succeeds." "We had been through so much and we really fought hard to try and keep our relationship together. He hears one of my songs and he knows that that's me, and he has seen me on TV and he's starting to put the pieces together. Parents and baby are all doing well." They love each other so much but it just wasn't right."
In "Phoenix Rising" on HBO, a documentary about Evan Rachel Wood's relationship with Marilyn Manson, survivors are heard.
They emphasize how important being heard is and that telling their story is a fundamental act of healing. Wood’s 2018 testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee in behalf of the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights went viral; for many it was the first time they had heard about her accusations. In fact, the documentary’s name refers to the Phoenix Act, which passed in California in January 2020. She presents intimate photographs of and diary entries about early moments in the relationship that show a young woman in awe of a charismatic provocateur: “When you feel invisible and you think somebody sees you, it’s very alluring,” Wood explains in the documentary. Her family life was fractured at the time, and with few professional safeguards seemingly in place, Wood and Manson’s relationship progressed. "Mr. Warner vehemently denies any and all claims of sexual assault or abuse of anyone. The documentary reminds us that celebrity blogger Perez Hilton’s nickname for Wood was “Evan Rachel Whore.” She turned to activism. And, like other young actors and musicians in the early 2000s, she had to deal with a venomous gossip industry. “I was coerced into a commercial sex act under false pretenses,” she says. And still, at the end of the documentary, she names Marilyn Manson, aka Brian Warner, as the man she accuses of having brutalized her for years. They are often called liars and accused of wanting money, fame and revenge.
In the conclusion of HBO's Phoenix Rising, Wood details gruesome allegations of abuse and manipulation by Manson during their relationship.
Speaking to a room of other women with their own allegations of abuse against Manson, Wood described walking into Manson’s bedroom after returning to him to find a piece of furniture called “the kneeler.” She said that was when he tortured her:After he tied me up and hit me over and over and over again with a whip—which was a Nazi whip from the Holocaust with a swastika on it because I’m Jewish—I was tied to the kneeler and he hit me over and over again and said that he was going to hit me in the same place over and over again so that it would really hurt. And I remember in that moment thinking, “Tell him whatever he wants to hear.”Wood said that after she apologized to him repeatedly, Manson cut his hand and made her drink his blood, and then cut her and drank her blood. She said she went back to him for fear that a restraining order would “make him more mad,” explaining that her decision was rooted in the kind of fear survivors of abuse often experience.“That was around the time that he tied me up and tortured me,” Wood said. I jerked so hard that I broke the kneeler and collapsed in a pool of tears in his arms. He refused to wear a condom ever, and it was very much sex-on-demand and it was going to cause more problems if I said no. “I went through like every type to see which one he liked, and he didn’t like any of them. “From the beginning of our relationship, he always had an issue with whatever birth control I was using,” Wood said. Wood said she returned to Manson to “diffuse the situation” and applied Neosporin to his cuts. So I’d wake up, and I just remember doing the mental math quickly and thinking, “Just stay asleep, just 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.After this period, Wood said she fled Manson’s home and spent time at her father’s house. I didn’t know I was doing meth. He shocked my private parts and it hurt so bad that I broke the kneeler. I started getting scabs all over my body, all over my face.
Wood, 34, makes shocking allegations about the abuse that she suffered at the hands of Manson in the new documentary 'Phoenix Rising,' which premiered this ...
Evan Rachel Wood made the harrowing claims against Marilyn Manson during the second part of the HBO documentary 'Phoenix Rising' Tuesday night.
And then he cut me…and drank mine.”As Radar reported, Wood’s latest claims against Manson revealed in Phoenix Rising come just days after Manson – whose real name is Brian Warner – filed a lawsuit against the actress, claiming that her allegations against him are a “malicious falsehood” that have since “derailed” his career in the entertainment industry.“This action arises from the wrongful and illegal acts done in furtherance of a conspiracy by Defendant Evan Rachel Wood and her on-again, off-again romantic partner, Defendant Ashley Gore, a/k/a Illma Gore, to publicly cast Plaintiff Brian Warner, p/k/a Marilyn Manson, as a rapist and abuser—a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s successful music, TV, and film career,” the lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month, reads. According to the second part of Phoenix Rising, which premiered on HBO Tuesday night, Wood made these bombshell claims against the 53-year-old controversial singer in an effort to shed light on his alleged abuse – alleged abuse that 15 other women have also come forward claiming since Wood’s initial allegations against Manson in February 2021.“He carved an ‘E,’ and I carved an ‘M’ as a way to show ownership and loyalty, and I carved it right next to my vagina to show him that I belong to him,” she shared during the documentary while also showing the camera the actual scar in question as well as revealing the time he cut open his hand and made her drink the blood in a “blood pact.”Then, after alleging that Manson would regularly rape the Westworld actress in her sleep while she forced herself to “just lie limp and still until it was over,” Wood then describes in great detail the alleged incident in which Manson tortured her with a “swastika-embellished Nazi whip.”“It hurt so bad that I broke the kneeler in half,” Wood said. Evan Rachel Wood Alleges Marilyn Manson Tortured Her With Nazi Whip & Made Her Drink His BloodEvan Rachel Wood has continued sharing accusations against her former fiancé, lover, and alleged abuser Marilyn Manson during HBO’s new documentary Phoenix Rising, and now the actress claims that Manson not only tortured her with a Nazi whip, but he also allegedly shocked her genitals and even cut his own hand open before making Wood drink the blood from his wound.
A lawsuit filed earlier this month claims the doc, which just dropped on HBO, is "a one-sided 'documentary.'" Wood begs to differ.
His complaint describes Phoenix Rising as “a one-sided ‘documentary’ premised on the existence of an entirely fictitious federal investigation.” In Phoenix Rising’s second part, however, there is footage of Wood entering an FBI building and, apparently, recounting her abuse (this plays without audio and in slow motion). What Manson alleges is nothing short of a conspiracy to defame him on a Hollywood production’s scale. “I am sad.” To The Cut, Wood talked about the lingering fear as a result of her speaking out, as well as its potential cost to her career and bank account: “Wood says she has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on security (‘I love when people think you do this for the money’).” Manson’s lawsuit, Wood has noted, was well-timed, coming just before the documentary’s HBO debut. He claims that Gore impersonated him, hacked into his computer and social media accounts, and swatted him (that is, she called the police to claim that she could not reach him and it might be as a result of an emergency, when no such emergency existed). He says Gore and Wood created a fraudulent document purportedly from a FBI agency that doesn’t exist (Federal Violent Crimes Department) claiming that “Evan Rachel Wood is a key witness in connection to a criminal investigation in Los Angeles, California involving an international and well known public figure.” The complaint goes on to claim that “Wood submitted the forged letter in a California custody proceeding, using it as supposed evidence for why she should be able to move her son to Tennessee.” In Manson’s telling, the letter would further serve to “draw attention to the Phoenix Act, Wood, and the false allegations against [Brian] Warner [Editor’s note: Manson’s, given name]; and the forged letter would be used to recruit, encourage, and convince people to claim they were abused by Warner, because they were being led to believe that Warner was a threat to their safety and under federal investigation.” As proof of its forgery, attached to the complaint is a screenshot of texts purportedly between Wood and Gore in which the letter is being workshopped. For her part, Gore allegedly tweeted a soon-deleted post that would seem to confirm the veracity of at least one of the documents in Manson’s arsenal of evidence (these also include a picture from a note book in which she wrote that one of her goals in being involved with the Phoenix Act was in part to “make money” and supposed checklist of Manson’ offenses that was sent to survivors in order to put words in their mouth, per Manson’s telling). A screenshot alleges that the day Manson’s complaint dropped, Gore tweeted: “Before publishing images be aware that photos and images from my hard drive have been registered with the U.S. Copyright office. His complaint “demands a trial by jury.” He accuses Wood and Gore of a host of misdeeds, including pressuring his accusers. (Cleary is standing by his words in the doc, per a recent tweet.) Complicating matters is the defamation lawsuit that Manson filed earlier this month against Wood and Illma Gore. Wood and Gore were collaborators on the formation of the Phoenix Act, a bill proposed to extend the statute of limitations for sexual assault survivors in California. It was passed into law in 2020, albeit in amended form. A profile of Wood that ran this week in The Cut reported that Phoenix Rising director Amy Berg “didn’t want the doc to feel like a ‘celebrity exposé’ and was relieved when HBO told her an early cut felt like an intimate conversation between best friends.”In the two-part doc’s first entry, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Wood recounts meeting Manson in 2006 when she was 18 and he was 37. Using the “crazy ex-girlfriend” trope to cast doubt on Wood’s story is one thing, but it hardly stands to reason that director Amy Berg, who’s been nominated for an Oscar, would risk her reputation as a documentarian by aiding in the concoction of such a thorough conspiracy. Among her claims are those that Manson groomed her, dragged her through a hotel, isolated her from her family, and “essentially raped” her during the filming of his 2007 “Heart-Shaped Glasses” video. Manson linked to a PDF of his complaint in his Instagram bio (a post pointed to it), practically daring people to read it. An HBO documentary cut from the same must-watch-can’t-stomach cloth as 2019’s Leaving Neverland, Phoenix Rising is actor Evan Rachel Wood’s platform for detailing the abuse she says she suffered over the course of her four-year relationship with Marilyn Manson. Phoenix Rising is technically a documentary that roughly spans the year leading up to Wood publicly naming Manson as her abuser (in a 2018 House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, Wood described abuse but declined to name Manson), but it feels more like a memoir than a proper doc. (Per Wood’s Cut interview, Gore is no longer involved in any Phoenix Act-oriented organization’s activity.) Manson’s complaint reiterates his denial of any wrongdoing and accuses Wood of having “handpicked co-conspirators” to bolster her abuse claims.
Evan Rachel Wood said she has the "truth on her side" after her alleged abuser Marilyn Manson sued her for defamation.
She alleged that he “groomed her” as a teen, after previously detailing the alleged abuse without naming him. It was time to stop being silent.” And I could feel at that time that it was time to say something.