Dita Von Teese Has Responded to the Marilyn Manson Allegations

Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese.

Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese. Photo: J. Vespa/WireImage

Another one of Marilyn Manson's exes has responded to the abuse allegations against him by actress Evan Rachel Wood and at least 4 other women. Now the burlesque personality Dita Von Teese, who married Manson in 2005 and and so filed for divorce a year later, has come frontwards.

On Midweek, in a statement posted to Instagram, Von Teese wrote that she has been "processing the news that broke" about Manson, and went on to thank "those who have expressed your concerns of my well-being." She continued: "Please know that the details made public practise non lucifer my personal experience during our 7 years together as a couple. Had they, I would non have married him." Von Teese added that she left Manson "due to infidelity and drug abuse." While she stopped short of saying explicitly that she believes Wood and Manson'southward other accusers, she wrote, "Abuse of any kind has no place in any relationship. I urge those of you who have incurred abuse to take steps to heal and the force to fully realize yourself."

One of Manson'due south other exes, Rose McGowan, who was briefly engaged to the artist earlier Von Teese, said in her ain statement earlier this week that her relationship with Manson was also "not like that." Still, McGowan emphasized, "That has no bearing on whether he was like that with others before or later," and that she stands with all the "dauntless women who have come frontward."

Since Mon, v women have leveled abuse allegations against Manson. The first to come forward was Wood, who claims that Manson "started grooming me when I was a teenager" and "horrifically abused me for years." (Wood and Manson met in 2005, when the one-time was 18, got engaged in 2010, and and so split the following year.) While this was the outset time Wood named Manson every bit her declared abuser, it's non the first she'due south spoken of experiencing sexual violence: In 2018, to abet for a bill that would protect sexual-set on survivors, Wood testified that one of her old partners would "[bind] me upwards past my easily and feet to be mentally and physically tortured until my abuser felt I had 'proven my love for them.'" At the time, many suspected that the unnamed perpetrator was Manson.

Following Wood's statement, four other women came forward with similarly horrifying stories, characterizing Manson every bit a manipulative partner who subjected them to sexual, emotional, and psychological calumniating. "I take nighttime terrors, PTSD, anxiety, and mostly crippling OCD," the actress Ashley Lindsay Morgan wrote on Instagram. "I try to wash constantly to get him out or off of me. I am coming forwards then he will finally end."

While Manson has denied the allegations, calling them "horrible distortions of reality" and farther claiming, "My intimate relationships have ever been entirely consensual with likeminded partners," he has since been dropped by his talent bureau and tape label.

Dita Von Teese Has Addressed the Marilyn Manson Allegations