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The accusations of sexual assault against Marilyn Manson are mounting as more women come forward with horror stories of abuse and violence.

The floodgates were opened by his ex-fiancé Evan Rachel Wood, who described incidents of sexual and psychological abuse.

Since that first Instagram post, more than a dozen women have come forward to talk about their own experiences with him, including ex-girlfriend Rose McGowan, and former porn star Jenna Jameson, who says that Manson ‘fantasised about burning her alive’.

The latest account of alleged abuse comes from Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco, who played Ros in the series.

Bianco dated Manson in 2011, seven years after, while dealing with the death of a friend, listening to his album Mechanical Animals helped her to process her emotions.

When she finally got to meet him, she describes, via The Cut, being “thrilled”, but the encounter led to years of “psychological torment and violence that derailed her acting career and left her with physical scars and PTSD”.

Bianco 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.”

She met him in 2005 through his then-fiancée, Dita Von Teese, and describes visiting them at their home in Los Angeles. After their divorce in 2007, Manson kept in touch with Bianco.

Their dynamic, which at first was solely platonic, changed in 2009 when he sent her a plane ticket so that she could star in his music video for ‘I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies’.

He said that the music video would be shot on a flip camera for a “home-video feel” and would involve Manson “kidnapping” Bianco in his home.

“You are gonna have to pretend to like being manhandled by me. Sorry,” Manson emailed her a few days before the shoot. Once she arrived, she says, the line between art and reality immediately blurred.

Bianco, who was 26 at the time, says she spent the next three days in lingerie, barely sleeping or eating, with Manson serving up cocaine rather than food.

She says that he became violent, tying her with cables on a prayer kneeler, lashing her with a whip, and using an electric sex toy called a Violet Wand on her wounds.

Wood described the same torture device used on her.

A few days after she returned home from the shoot, he emailed her a picture of her back covered in wounds with a note reading, “bringing sexy back”. As you can see from the official video, that footage was never used:

They began a long-distance affair, during which Manson would “bite her during sex without her consent, leaving her whole body bruised”.

His assistant Ashley Walters, who says that she continues to “suffer from PTSD” due to her own abuse at the hands of the singer, says that she managed travel for Bianco and other women, many of whom were also flown to Los Angeles under the pretence of photoshoots or music videos – “I was basically giving him a schedule of who’s at what hotel”.

Fast forward to 2011, when Bianco left her then-husband and moved in with Manson. At first, she says that the relationship was a good one, but he soon began to control every aspect of her life.

“I basically felt like a prisoner,” says Bianco. “I came and went at his pleasure. Who I spoke to was completely controlled by him. I called my family hiding in the closet.”

Bianco’s friend of 20 years Fraser Knight says he was terrified after she called him from “a cupboard” and tried to play off Manson’s behavior as “annoying boyfriend” antics.

He worried that she would cut him off if he told her to leave the relationship, and some contact seemed better than none in this case. “I genuinely thought I might never hear from her again,” he says, his voice breaking.

The interview is long and disturbing.

You can read it in full here.

Bianco rounds off by calling Manson a “serial predator”, who “deserves to be behind bars for the rest of his life”.

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