Evan Rachel Wood says she still gets 'followed by cars' years after Marilyn Manson sexual abuse allegations
Evan Rachel Wood says she still gets 'followed by cars' years after Marilyn Manson sexual abuse allegations
Mekishana PierreSat, April 25, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC
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Evan Rachel Wood says she still gets "followed by cars" and feels intimidated five years after accusing Marilyn Manson of "horrifically" abusing her.
"I still have phishing attempts on my computer," she added. "I still have numbers calling me over and over again."
Manson has denied the 2021 abuse allegations from Wood and four other women, calling them "horrible distortions of reality."
Five years after she accused her ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson of "horrifically" abusing her, Evan Rachel Wood says she still feels intimidated and deals with harassment.
The actress — who is one of the voices in Mark Vicente's upcoming documentary, The Narcissist’s Playbook — said the dynamics of her four-and-a-half-year relationship with Manson (real name: Brian Warner) could be considered "very much the same [as a cult] and the tactics and the aftermath can be very much the same."
"[Manson] is more of a malignant narcissist, more of a cult leader," she told U.K. outlet The Times in a new interview. "His circle, his sphere, it operated very much like a cult."
She said coming forward with her allegations that Manson sexually abused her meant risking repercussions not only from him, but from his fans. "You're up against an entire system," she said, "which makes it twice as hard to leave and twice as scary to speak out."
Wood added that she continues to feel unnerved and deals with harassment even though she went public with her accusations in 2021. "There's a lot of intimidation that comes with that — trying to keep you quiet or to blackmail you, to ruin your reputation, to hack into your electronics," she told The Times. "I still get followed by cars. I still have phishing attempts on my computer. I still have numbers calling me over and over again."
Evan Rachel Wood in 2024Credit: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty
Representatives for Manson did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment regarding Wood's new remarks to The Times.
Wood alleged in 2021 that Manson groomed her as a teenager and "horrifically abused" her for years during their romantic relationship. She delved further into her accusations in the 2022 HBO documentary Phoenix Rising, claiming that Manson "essentially raped" her on the set of his "Heart-Shaped Glasses" music video. Manson responded by suing the Westworld actress for defamation in 2022, but he dropped the lawsuit in 2024 and agreed to cover her legal fees.
Four other women — model Sarah McNeilly, former model Ashley Lindsay Morgan, Manson's former personal assistant Ashley Walters, and actress Esmé Bianco — came forward the same day Wood went public with her allegations to detail their own abuse allegations against Manson. He denied the claims, calling them "horrible distortions of reality."
Bianco, best known for her role on Game of Thrones, filed a civil lawsuit against Manson in 2021 that accused him of sexual assault and violating human trafficking laws. The suit was settled in 2023.
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In January 2025, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced that after a years-long investigation into allegations of rape and domestic violence against Manson, the statute of limitations had run out on the domestic violence allegations, and prosecutors did not think they could prove charges of sexual assault beyond a reasonable doubt.
Bianco took to social media after the news was announced, saying she was "disappointed" by the decision not to charge Manson but "sadly not surprised."
"Once again, our justice system has failed survivors," Bianco wrote. "My healing and peace could not be reliant upon the outcome of a desperately broken system." She concluded with a message to Manson: "By you dragging me through hell, I discovered the unstoppable force of my own power."
Marilyn MansonCredit: Frazer Harrison/Getty
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Wood told The Times that she felt "a sense of crushing validation" after the announcement — "the sense that, 'I feel validated but, I hate that it's in this way,' " she explained.
"What we're seeing now with the Epstein files, everybody is so outraged, asking, 'How can there be all this evidence and nothing be done?'" she said in the interview. "Every survivor I know was like, 'Yeah, welcome to the party.' Now you're seeing what we have seen. We do have evidence — and it's not enough."
She added, "Something is wrong and broken to enable this kind of abuse to continue."
The Narcissist's Playbook is slated for release in June.
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