Following a series of abuse allegations against musician Marilyn Manson, Starz announced that it will remove the singer from his upcoming appearance on the latest season of American Gods. Despite having already appeared in two episodes of the drama’s third season, the network plans to remove Manson from a his remaining episode, which is scheduled to air later in the season.
Early Monday morning, Westworld actress Rachel Evan Wood made an instagram post in which she publicly named Manson as her abuser, calling out the musician for grooming and domestic violence. Wood first met Manson as a seventeen-year-old girl, after beginning her acting career as a child. Their relationship was officially made public when Wood was 19 and Manson was 38. In her instagram post, Wood expanded on the abusive nature of her relationship with Manson, stating, “He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years.
Manson played Johan Wengren, the blood-thirsty lead singer of Viking death metal band, Blood Death on the Neil Gaiman series of the same name. While Manson’s character reportedly played a significant role in the upcoming episode, “Sister Rising,” the release date has been postponed as a result of the Super Bowl. Therefore, showrunner Chic Eglee should have a ___amount of time to adapt the episode in light of Manson’s __.
Wood is not the first to publicly accuse Manson of untoward behavior. In 2018, actress Charlyne Yi accused Manson of harassment, and in 2020, Dan Clearly, a former assistant of Manson’s, stated that he has witnessed the singer being abusive. Moreover, in response to Wood’s Instagram post, several other alleged survivors of Manson’s abuse came forward.
After this series of public accusations, Starz released a statement in solidarity with Manson’s accusers: “Starz stands unequivocally with all victims and survivors of abuse.” As well, prior to the network’s statement, American Gods actress Yetide Badaki, who plays Bilquis, a goddess of love, similarly tweeted in support of Wood: “I stand with Evan Rachel Wood and these brave women.”
In light of these Manson has also been dropped by his label, Loma Vista Records. The record company released a similarly worded statement on their Instagram page, relating their intentions to “cease to further promote [Manson’s] current album effective immediately,” as well as their decision “not to work with Marilyn Manson on any future projects.”
Manson rebuffed the claims in an Instagram post, calling the accusations, “horrible distortions of reality.”
Sources: Deadline
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