Phoebe Bridgers has vocalized her support for the women who’ve come forward with abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson and recalled her experience at his house when she was a teenager.
She issued a trigger warning on Twitter Thursday (Feb. 4) before delving into her account.
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“I went to Marilyn Manson’s house when I was a teenager with some friends. I was a big fan,” she tweeted. “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. I stopped being a fan. I stand with everyone who came forward.”
The 26-year-old indie rock musician also alleged that “the label knew, management knew, the band knew” in a secondary tweet, though she didn’t specify names or exactly what they were aware of. “Distancing themselves now, pretending to be shocked and horrified is f—ing pathetic,” the “Kyoto” singer wrote.
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Manson has been dropped by his label, Loma Vista Recordings, as well as CAA after his ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood came forward in a Feb. 1 Instagram statement to claim the shock rocker had “horrifically abused” her for years, starting when she was a teenager.
Manson’s other ex-fiancée Rose McGowan also took to Twitter to stand with Wood and the four other women who came forward with similarly horrifying allegations. Like Bridgers’ claim, McGowan blamed “Hollywood cult leaders that have employed him and sanctioned him.”
Trent Reznor also denounced Manson — whom he had signed to his Nothing Records in the early ’90s — and the “complete fabrication” included in Manson’s 1998 autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell. In the memoir, Manson wrote that the duo allegedly physically and sexually assaulted an intoxicated woman in the ’90s.
Manson has since denied these sexual abuse allegations with his own Instagram statement. “Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality,” he wrote. “My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how – and why – others are now choosing to misinterpret the past, that is the truth.”
Billboard has reached out to those who worked with Manson in the time frame indicated by Bridgers, but did not receive any immediate response.
Read Bridgers’ tweets below.
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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. I stopped being a fan.
I stand with everyone who came forward.
— traitor joe (@phoebe_bridgers) February 4, 2021
The label knew, management knew, the band knew. Distancing themselves now, pretending to be shocked and horrified is fucking pathetic.
— traitor joe (@phoebe_bridgers) February 4, 2021