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Abusers Don’t All Look like Marilyn Manson
There is no way to tell an abusive man from his looks alone
Over the past couple of weeks, it has become fairly clear that the Armie Hammer abuse rumors — which include screenshots of his talk of cannibalism fantasies and details of him carving his initials into a woman’s genitalia with a knife — are going absolutely nowhere. (For more on those, see this fab piece by ).
Hammer has already been dropped like a stone by both his agent and his publicist, and most of us are cynical enough to understand that when that happens to a previously highly bankable star, it’s usually a hand-washing exercise ahead of confirmed, or perhaps worsening, revelations. His previously glittering star, for the moment at least, seems to be on the wane.
Meanwhile, bad boy Goth rockstar and famous “satanist” Marilyn Manson has also been dropped by both his agent and by his record label, after his ex-partner, Evan Rachel Wood announced publicly that he had been abusive to her during their relationship and that he was the man she referred to in previous discussions about abuse and sexual assault.
She confirmed that he groomed her when they met and that he subjected her to several years of what she describes as “horrific abuse” before they separated for good.
