Evan Rachel Wood Gives Up Custody of Her Son After Alleged Threats from Marilyn Manson
Sources close to Manson, of course, have since called the alleged threats "unproven claims."
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Just two weeks after the Superior Court of California favored actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood in a tentative ruling in the ongoing defamation case levied against her by her alleged abuser and ex-partner, Marilyn Manson (née Brian Warner), Wood has reportedly surrendered primary custody of her 9-year-old son. Why? Apparently due to alleged threats she claims Manson has made.
On Thursday, The Blast reported it had obtained new legal documents that showed Wood and Jamie Bell—her former partner and the father of her young son—have agreed the child will reside with Bell as Wood claims she fears she’d be putting him in danger by living with him in Los Angeles full time. Wood—along with Phoenix Rising collaborator, Illma Gore—is currently embroiled in an ongoing defamation suit filed by Manson, and though much of it has already been dismissed, Wood has repeatedly claimed her ex has threatened her safety and is afraid of retaliation.
“I am a key witness in a pending criminal investigation,” Wood, who resides in Nashville, said in custody court this month. “In connection with the investigation, I allege that I was the victim of torture, rape, and pedophilic grooming by an intentionally known public figure.”
“I am extremely afraid of the alleged offender,” she continued. “I have suffered a severe, traumatic physical and emotional injury at his hands, and I am afraid that he will seek retribution against me for testifying by harming me, our son, and members of our family.”