Trent Reznor has released a new statement about her former friend and collaborator Marilyn Manson. The statement, shared with Pitchfork, comes days after Manson’s former partner, Evan Rachel Wood, alleged that the musician fixed and abused her during their relationship.
Reznor’s statement is an anecdote about Reznor that Manson included in his 1998 autobiography. The long hard road out of hell. In history, that recently resurrected, Manson recounts a horrible scene in which he and Reznor allegedly physically and sexually assaulted a drunken woman in the 1990s.
Trent Reznor’s statement says:
Screenshots of passages from The long hard road out of hell began circulating on Twitter after Wood and several women filed charges that Manson mistreated them. The book, co-authored with Neil Strauss, includes stories about Reznor, who signed Manson with his Nothing Records imprint and produced his band’s debut album in 1994. Portrait of an American family.
The passage in question would supposedly be part of an unpublished interview with the now-defunct Empirical Magazine, originally intended for publication in the journal in 1995, but never printed due to “content objections from Empyrean publisher Centaur Enterprises, who believed the magazine had followed unethical interview procedures for extract information from Mr. Manson “. according to Manson and Strauss’s book.
When Manson was asked by the Empires interviewer of how he ended up working with Reznor, told the aforementioned story. According to the book, this took place the night before Reznor told Manson she wanted to sign him to Nothing Records.
Reznor, who also worked in 1996 Antichrist Superstar, said of Manson a Mojo in 2009: “He is a mischievous boy and will step on anyone’s face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he has become a clown. “
Manson claimed in 2017 that Reznor and he had reconciled. “He is the one who sent me an email, after a long time we had solutions [Manson collaborator and producer] Tyler Bates is weird, ”Manson told Zane Lowe. “He went and said in the email something along the lines of, ‘I’m ashamed that music is no longer dangerous and reminds me how great you were and me, and the time, the time.’
Evan Rachel Wood previously testified before Congress in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Survivors of Sexual Assault on Their Experiences, although she did not publicly name Manson until this past week. Following his accusations, Manson’s record label, tour agency and television programs broke ties with the musician. He has since denied the allegations in a statement, which in part said: “My intimate relationships have always been completely consensual with like-minded couples.”