Marilyn Manson has denied raping the actor Evan Rachel Wood on the set of the music video for his 2007 single Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand).
In Phoenix Rising, a new documentary about Wood’s life and career which premiered at the 2022 Sundance film festival, Wood said that during a previously discussed “simulated sex scene”, Manson, born Brian Warner, “started penetrating me for real” once the cameras were rolling.
