Evan Rachel Wood Explains Decision To Speak Out About Marilyn Manson In ‘Phoenix Rising’ Documentary

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Rachel Evan Wood appears on the Thursday, March 17 edition of “The Drew Barrymore Show” to discuss “Phoenix Rising”, the Amy J.

Berg-directed documentary in which she details the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of ex Marilyn Manson. As Wood told host Drew Barrymore, it was her son who inspired her to go public. “That was the catalyst, like really,” she explained. “It was like, ‘How do I live with myself knowing I am the example for this young person if I can’t speak up for myself and for other people.’ Especially in a time such as this that we are living in, when these things are getting pushed to the surface and now is the time for truth and healing and having those hard conversations and if I run away from this now what do I tell my child.

Be that person. If you have the platform and the privilege to help other people, dear God use it. And, I just felt I just had to do it.” READ MORE: Evan Rachel Wood Spoke Out Against Marilyn Manson Because ‘It Was Time To Stop Being Silent’ When she first began to speak out, she had no intention of telling her story in a documentary. “When I first started speaking about my abuse I was still sort of in the midst of processing it,” she told Barrymore. “When I testified in front of Congress for another bill, for the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights, I thought that was going to be it.

I thought that was going to be the only time I told my story. I thought I was going to leave it there, walk away, move on. And then I saw after I testified all of these stories popping up on the Internet and when I saw that it was like a bomb went off, and I can tell by the details in their stories that they knew things that nobody else knew.