Evan Rachel Wood says Marilyn Manson ‘abused me horribly for years’

“Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood, who testified before Congress about her experience of domestic and sexual violence, said Monday she was “horribly” abused by musician Marilyn Manson, her ex. partner.

In an Instagram post, Wood wrote that Manson, real name Brian Warner, “started grooming me as a teenager and abused me horribly for years.

“I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I ended up living in fear of retaliation, slander or blackmail, ”Wood wrote.

“I am here to denounce this dangerous man and call up the many industries that have enabled him, before he ruins more lives,” the actor added. “I stand alongside the many victims who will no longer remain silent.”

Wood, now 33, met Manson, 52, when she was a teenager in his thirties. They dated on and off in the late 2000s, and in 2010, they were briefly engaged. Wood married “Billy Elliot” star Jamie Bell in 2012 and they divorced in 2014.

NBC News has reached out to representatives for Manson for comment on Wood’s allegations, which have been cited in full above.

British music magazine Metal Hammer said Manson abruptly ended a phone interview last fall after the publication mentioned Wood’s name.

In a subsequent statement to the magazine, Manson’s UK public relations representative said in part: “Personal testimony is just that, and we believe it is inappropriate to comment on that.”

In early 2018, Wood testified before a House judicial subcommittee about his experiences with domestic and sexual violence during a hearing on the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights Act. She recounted being raped twice, first by an abusive partner and then by a man in a bar storage cupboard. (She did not name her attackers.)

She said she suffered from depression, agoraphobia and night terrors after her assaults, and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I was deeply terrified and that fear is with me today,” Wood said in his testimony. “What makes me more hurt and angrier than the rape and the abuse itself is that part of me that was stolen, that changed the course of my life.”