Evan Rachel Wood Exposes Marilyn Manson’s Nazi House of Horrors in Sundance Doc ‘Phoenix Rising’
In director Amy Berg’s new documentary Phoenix Rising, Evan Rachel Wood holds Marilyn Manson accountable for the abuse she says she endured during their relationship, which began when she was 18 years old. But the actress and activist makes clear that she’s not exactly rejoicing about it.
“This isn’t about revenge, or, ‘He’s a monster and he needs to be punished and destroyed,’” she says in the documentary. “He’s already destroyed. That man is not a man anymore; he is gone.”
Part 1 of the documentary premiered Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival. The second installment is due on HBO later this year, but the first covers a lot of ground: Evan Rachel Wood’s upbringing, her rise as an actress and subsequent treatment by the industry as a mature “troubled teen” figure, and her alleged grooming and abuse at the hands of the then-37-year-old rock star—who she says terrorized her emotionally and sexually, threatened her life, and began getting swastikas and decorating their home with Nazi propaganda during their relationship despite knowing she is Jewish. Wood also alleges that Manson “essentially raped” her during a music video shoot for “Heart-Shaped Glasses.”