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28.02.2023 / 17:33
Evan Rachel Wood hits back at claim she ‘manipulated’ Marilyn Manson accuser
Marilyn Manson in 2020.It comes after Smithline last week recanted her “false” sexual assault allegations against the singer from a 2021 interview with People. The model alleged in the article that Manson raped her, cut her and locked her in a glass, soundproofed room.Last month, the sexual assault case was dismissed by a court in California. The suit was dropped after Smithline’s lawyer withdrew as her representation in October 2022, and she did not meet a deadline of December to acquire new representation or represent herself.Smithline filed a declaration in Los Angeles Superior Court last Thursday (February 24), saying that she was “manipulated” by Wood and other people to go public with the allegations, which Smithline said were “false”.“I succumbed to pressure from Evan Rachel Wood and her associates to make accusations of rape and assault against [Manson] that were not true,” she wrote, claiming that she was “repeatedly gaslit” by Wood.Smithline also stated in the latest declaration that she had a “brief, consensual sexual relationship” with Manson in 2010.As Rolling Stone reports, Wood has claimed in a new legal declaration that the model had first reached out to her in 2019.