May 2007: Wood stars alongside Manson in a sexually suggestive video for his song “Heart-Shaped Glasses.” Wood is known to be dating Manson, who is in the midst of a divorce from dancer Dita Von Teese. The following year, Manson and Wood separated.
June 2009: In an interview published by TURN, Manson says he was hurt after his separation from Wood, and that he fantasizes about hurting him. “Every day I have fantasies of breaking his skull with a hammer,” he says. Later, his camp claimed that he was not serious and that he made the statements in a spirit of theatrical exaggeration.
July 2009: Apparently, Manson threatens violence against music journalists. “I am very different from what the press that will be murdered in your home has decided to fabricate,” he writes, in a blog post that is no longer online, responding to a derogatory media mention. “If one more ‘journalist’ makes a chivalrous statement about me and my band, personally or with the help of my fans I will greet them at home and find out how much they believe in their freedom of expression.”
November 2009: Manson launches the video for his song “Running to the Edge of the World,” which contains a staged scene of his appearance to brutally beat a female character who, according to several critics, appears to resemble Wood.
January 2010: After reconciling, Manson and Wood would be engaged; proposes on stage. After months, they separated again.
November 2016: In a Rolling stone interview, Wood speaks publicly for the first time about the rape “by another significant while we were together.” He also refers to his “physical, psychological, [and] sexual ”by a couple. It does not detail the identity of the alleged perpetrator.
October 2017: Manson’s longtime bassist Twiggy Ramirez is accused of rape. Manson, after saying he “knew nothing of these allegations until very recently” and was “saddened” by the “obvious anguish” of the alleged survivor, who broke up with Ramirez. Ramirez issues a statement stating that “only recently was he made aware of these allegations more than 20 years ago” and maintains: “I do not allow any kind of non-consensual sex.”
February 2018: Comedian and actor Charlyne Yi accuses Manson of harassing women and making racist comments on the set of the television drama House. Manson makes no comment on the allegations.
The same month, again without naming names, Wood details experiences of sexual assault and domestic violence in testimony before Congress. “My experience with domestic violence was this,” he says, “toxic mental, physical, and sexual abuse that began slowly but increased over time, including threats to my life, severe enlightenment. and brainwashing, waking up the man who claimed to love me, violating what he believed was my unconscious body. “
August 2018: The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office says in a court case that it has refused to pursue a case against Manson. According to the file, a police report filed against Manson earlier this year accused him of unspecified sex offenses dating back to 2011. In the filing, the district attorney says he has refused to continue the case because the limitation period has expired. in the absence of corroboration. Through his lawyer, Manson “categorically” denies the allegations, calling them “completely delusional.”
April 2019: Wood recounts his experience with domestic violence, this time in a California Senate court. Again, he declines to name his alleged assailant. “The fear of being judged by society is debilitating and the fear of reprisals from my aggressor is paralyzing,” he says. “I have been diagnosed with complex PTSD, which includes dissociation, panic attacks, night terrors, agoraphobia, impulse control, chronic pain in the body, among other symptoms.”