Yet another woman has come forward accusing Marilyn Manson of sexual assault bringing the total to 15 over just the last few months.
The latest women to come forward was actress Ashley Morgan Smithline who in an interview with People said the singer sexually assaulted her “countless times,” adding that he also “hit her, whipped her, cut her with a swastika-emblazoned knife and shoved his fist in her mouth during sex.”
But it got even more disturbing from there:
She said Manson forced her to do a blood pact. “He cut me on my stomach and then drank my blood. Then, he had me drink his,” she says. “The more I let him hurt me, the more I loved him and the more I was proving myself to him.” When she “pissed him off,” he would lock her in something he called “the bad girls’ room,” which was glass, soundproof room. Other women have made mention of this room, and Smithline says she was locked in there at least 100 times.
In response, a spokesperson for Manson said they “strongly deny her claims” adding “There are so many falsehoods within her claims that we wouldn’t know where to begin to answer them. This relationship, to the limited extent it was a relationship, didn’t last one week.”
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