Evan Rachel Wood

Wood says Manson allegedly raped her during the filming of the music video.

Evan was not only fully coherent and engaged during the three-day shoot but also heavily involved in weeks of pre-production planning and days of post-production editing of the final cut. Evan has re-victimized herself over and over again to create change and a statute of limitations in the state of California, and doesn’t deserve a constant reminder of her sexual assault on the internet.” The creator of the online petition, which currently has 7,300 signatures, writes, “Survivors and allies need to come together to remove things like this.

The actor's two-part HBO documentary focused on her allegations against the musician makes for devastating viewing.

“People underestimate the power of that kind of trauma and what it does to your body and your brain,” Wood told Trevor Noah on the Daily Show this week. In concert with several other women, some of whom appear in the film in a meet-up, Wood outlines a pattern of love-bombing, isolation, control and abuse. As the documentary depicts, Wood was successful in getting the Phoenix Act passed in California, which raised the statute of limitations on domestic violence felonies from three to five years and required police officers to undergo more training on intimate partner violence. Among them: that Manson repeatedly drugged, manipulated and coerced her on the set of his 2007 music video Heart-Shaped Glasses and “essentially raped” her on camera; that Manson controlled her eating, raped her in her sleep after he gave her a sleeping pill, tortured her with an electric shocking device, beat her with “a Nazi whip from the Holocaust” while she was tied to a kneeler and fed her meth and other drugs without her knowledge. Phoenix Rising, directed by the Oscar-nominated Amy Berg (An Open Secret, The Case Against Adnan Syed), is the latest in a wave of documentary projects in the #MeToo era that uncovered patterns of abuse by beloved public figures, traced the long shadow of sexual trauma, and outlined the cultures that turned a blind eye. (Gore, Wood told the Cut, is no longer affiliated with The Phoenix Act, Wood’s non-profit to change the statute of limitations on abuse cases.)

After actress Evan Rachel Wood first publicly accused rock singer Marilyn Manson of sexual abuse in February 2021, similar allegations by others against the ...

In January, an attorney for Manson, Howard King, replied in a statement that Manson "did not have sex with Evan on that set, and she knows that is the truth. Manson performed with Ye at his Donda 2 listening party in Miami last month. I'd never been on a set that unprofessional in my life up until this day. Earlier this month, Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, sued Wood for defamation and opened the case file. I'm a professional actress, I have been doing this my whole life. Manson denied the claim, much as he denied additional accusations since 2021 that he sexually abused and tortured Wood and more women in the past.