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Wolf Alice singer Ellie Rowsell says Marilyn Manson used a GoPro to film under her skirt at a music festival

Feb 9, 2021, 17:46 IST
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Ellie Rowsell and Marilyn Manson.Jeff Spicer/Getty Images/Kevin Winter/Getty Images
  • Wolf Alice singer Ellie Rowsell has accused Marilyn Manson of filming under her skirt.
  • Rowsell, 28, said she met Manson backstage at a music festival.
  • Last week, Evan Rachel Wood accused Manson of subjecting her to years of sexual and physical abuse.
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Ellie Rowsell, the lead singer of the British rock band "Wolf Alice," has accused Marilyn Manson of using a GoPro camera to film under her skirt whilst backstage at a music festival.

Rowsell, 28, is the latest to detail accusations of abuse or assault against Manson - real name Brian Warner - after "Westworld" star Evan Rachel Wood accused Manson of "grooming" her as a teenager and subjecting her to years of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.

In a series of tweets posted over the weekend, Rowsell said: "Solidarity to Evan Rachel Wood and those calling out Marilyn Manson. It's sad to see people defending him, just because he put his depravity in plain sight doesn't give him a free pass to abuse women?!"

Marilyn Manson performing a show in 2009.Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images

She continued: "I met Marilyn backstage at a festival a few years ago. After his compliments towards my band became more and more hyperbolic I became suspicious of his behavior. I was shocked to look down and see he was filming up my skirt with a GoPro."

Rowsell said that there were no "repercussions" for Manson's behavior adding that his tour manager told her that such incidents were not uncommon with the singer.

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"His tour manager simply said 'he does this kind of thing all the time,'" Rowsell tweeted before questioning why Manson was able to continue to headline big music festivals if his behavior was so well documented.

She said: "If he does this kind of thing all the time why on earth has he been headlining festivals for so many years? When will we stop enabling misogynists on the account of their success? Women must feel safe in the male-dominated world that is the music industry."

Insider was not immediately able to reach a representative for Manson.

Last week, Evan Rachel Wood accused Manson of "horrifically" abusing her during their three-year relationship. The actress was 19 when she began dating Manson who was then 38, in 2007. The pair were engaged in 2010 but ended it seven months later. Wood, now 33, had previously spoken about being a survivor of domestic abuse but had never identified her alleged abuser.

In a statement posted to Instagram, Wood said: "The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson," she said in a statement posted on Instagram. "He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission."

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Read More: Evan Rachel Wood accused Marilyn Manson of using anti-Semitic and racist slurs during their relationship

Wood also reposted several statements on her Instagram Story, which she said were from other women who detailed their experiences with Manson, now 52. Later in the week, singer Phoebe Bridgers also tweeted her support for Manson's alleged victims and told her own experience of visiting Manson's home with her friends where the singer described a room in his house as the "rape room."

"I went to Marilyn Manson's house when I was a teenager with some friends. I was a big fan. He referred to a room in his house as the 'r*pe room', I thought it was just his horrible frat boy sense of humor," Bridgers wrote.

Manson denied all the allegations with a statement on Instagram last week where he said: "My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual."

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