The 38-year-old redhead takes off her glasses and wipes away a tear. “It’s really surreal,” she says over Zoom from her Los Angeles living room. But now, she wants to tell her story in full. At the time, she wasn’t ready to name Manson. She first came forward as an abuse survivor in 2019, testifying in front of the California Assembly to help reform domestic-violence laws. Last week, Manson called earlier allegations against him “horrible distortions of reality” and accused the women of misrepresenting intimate, consensual relationships “with like-minded partners.” A lawyer for the singer did not respond to a detailed request for comment about her claims. Bianco provided me with emails, text messages, and photographs from her time with Manson. Since then, Manson’s record label, Loma Vista Recordings his longtime manager and his talent agency, CAA, have all dropped him. In the past two weeks, more than a dozen, including the actress Evan Rachel Wood, have come forward on social media with allegations that include being drugged, tied up, and physically harmed by the singer. She says he went from being a “massive role model who really helped me through some incredibly dark and difficult times as a teenager” to a “monster who almost destroyed me and almost destroyed so many women.”īianco is the latest voice to join the chorus of women accusing Manson, born Brian Hugh Warner, of sexual assault. But she says the encounter led to years of psychological torment and violence that derailed her acting career and left her with physical scars and PTSD. Seven years later, when Bianco got the chance to meet Manson in person, she was thrilled. In high school, she even dated a Manson look-alike, who wore the singer’s signature white-and-black makeup. Bianco’s parents wouldn’t let her go to his shows, but she would listen to his Mechanical Animals album on repeat, belting out the lyrics about feeling numb and scribbling them in her notebooks. At the time, she was dealing with a friend’s recent suicide, and Manson’s music was the soundtrack to her dark feelings. The 16-year-old had posters of him on her bedroom wall in Northern England* and taped pictures of him to her lunchbox. As a teenager in the late ’90s, Esmé Bianco was a huge Marilyn Manson fan.
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