"Surviving R. Kelly." "We Need to Talk About Cosby." "Audrie & Daisy." Now "Phoenix Rising" is the latest in the category of abuse documentary. The two-part film, streaming on HBO Max, brings to startling light the abusive relationship that actor Evan Rachel Wood claims she endured at the hands of rocker Marilyn Manson, including severe physical abuse, psychological abuse and rape.
The sexual violence occurred at least one time on camera, Wood alleges, filmed for Manson's music video "Heart-Shaped Glasses" when Wood was too drugged by him to consent. What was promised to her to be only "simulated sex" for the video she says was not that once the cameras started rolling.
