Evan Rachel Wood says she’s ‘steady as a rock’ in face of Marilyn Manson’s lawsuit

Within the face of a defamation lawsuit from ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson, Evan Rachel Wooden says she’s “regular as a rock” and positively “not scared.”

Wooden, who publicly accused Manson — authorized title Brian Warner — of abuse in February 2021 and was sued by Warner in return earlier this month for alleged defamation, fraud and conspiracy, appeared Monday on “The View” to speak about her documentary “Phoenix Rising.” The 2-part mission airs Tuesday and Wednesday on HBO.

“I can’t, clearly, talk about any of the particular allegations of the lawsuit. However I’m not scared,” the “Westworld” actor advised co-host Sunny Hostin after being requested about Warner’s defamation motion. “I’m unhappy ’trigger that is the way it works. That is what just about each survivor that tries to reveal somebody able of energy goes by way of.”

Wooden stated the lawsuit towards her “was anticipated” and that this was “the a part of the retaliation that retains survivors quiet.”

Additionally chatting with “Good Morning America” on Monday, Wooden stated it was a promise of retaliation that stored her from naming Warner when she testified to Congress in 2018 about abuse by the hands of an unnamed former companion. “I used to be too scared,” she stated.

She lastly put a reputation to the allegations in February 2021, as did actor Esmé Bianco, who made related claims concerning the goth rocker after which sued him final April.

Then former private assistant Ashley Walters sued Warner final Could, alleging amongst different issues sexual harassment, sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional misery.

By way of his lawyer, Warner has repeatedly denied all allegations towards him — a sentiment that was echoed once more in a press release given to “GMA.” Earlier this month he tweeted out a hyperlink to his defamation swimsuit towards Wooden and wrote, “There’ll come a time after I can share extra concerning the occasions of the previous yr. Till then, I’m going to let the information converse for themselves.”

On “The View,” Wooden repeated her story that Warner allegedly began grooming her when she was 18 and he was 37, setting the stage for later bodily, sexual and psychological abuse over the course of their four-year relationship. She stated it took her from the time they broke up in 2008 till she filed her swimsuit to course of what she says occurred to her.

“Probably the most insidious factor that he did and that folks like him do is that they fully fracture your sense of self. He made me neglect who I used to be, and it’s taken me years to recollect, and it’s taken me years to get again to myself and even perceive what had occurred to me, as a result of I actually thought I used to be the one one,” Wooden stated on “The View.”

“And I didn’t discover out till a lot later that not solely was I not the one one however there was a sample to his abuse and which means it’s calculated, and which means he’s not going to cease till he’s stopped,” she added. “This isn’t simply any person capturing blindly at midnight. That is deliberate.”

On “GMA,” she clarified that it wasn’t a sexual matter between her and Warner.

“Brian and I didn’t have a BDSM relationship. We didn’t have kinky intercourse. This isn’t a sexual choice,” she stated.

Wooden stated on “The View” that it was nice that folks at the moment are speaking about issues like grooming and gaslighting greater than they had been a number of years in the past, however added that there’s lots of work to be accomplished.

The actor listed the numerous methods wherein she’s privileged — assets and a platform chief amongst them — after which warned: “I’ve these items in my nook and I’m nonetheless struggling, and that ought to alarm everybody.”