The shock rocker—real name Brian Warner—filed a defamation lawsuit against the Westworld actress earlier this month.
The actress, 34, has now responded to the situation and said she is “not scared” of the lawsuit.
“I can’t obviously speak about any of the specific allegations of the lawsuit, but I’m not scared,” Wood said during an appearance on The View.
“I am sad, because this is how it works. This is what pretty much every survivor that tries to expose someone in a position of power goes through, and this is part of the retaliation that keeps survivors quiet. This is why people don’t want to come forward. This was expected.”
Wood and other women, including actress Esme Bianco, accuse the musician of multiple instances of sexual assault in the documentary Phoenix Rising, which is set to air on HBO on March 15.
Manson and Wood met in 2006, when she was 18 and he was 38. They ended their relationship not long after getting engaged in 2010. In February last year, she alleged that Manson “horrifically abused” her for years and began “grooming” her when she was a teenager.
Manson has categorically denied all accusations against him and called them “horrible distortions of reality.”
Wood added on The View that she is “very confident that I have the truth on my side and that the truth will come out.
She continued: “This is clearly timed before the documentary…. I’m not doing this to clear my name. I’m doing this to protect people. I’m doing this to sound the alarm that there is a dangerous person out there and I don’t want anybody getting near him. So people can think whatever they want about me. I have to let the legal process run its course, and I’m steady as a rock.”
Ahead of the premiere of Phoenix Rising, Wood also spoke to Trevor Noah of The Daily Show and explained why it took 16 years for her to name Manson as her alleged abuser.
“You’re running, you’re trying to forget it happened, and then, of course, it catches up with you and I couldn’t run from it,” Wood said, adding: “I was that afraid of retaliation, I just did not feel safe and I felt very alone. I thought I was the only one.”
In a lawsuit filed against Wood earlier this month, Manson’s legal team claim that the actress orchestrated a “campaign of malicious and unjustified attacks.”
The singer alleges that Wood and Gore “provided checklists and scripts to prospective accusers, listing the specific alleged acts of abuse that they should claim against Warner.”
Manson’s legal team has also labeled Wood’s documentary “one-sided” and “premised on the existence of an entirely fictitious federal investigation.”
“Even though HBO and the producers have been made aware of these serious acts of misconduct, they have thus far chosen to proceed without regard for the facts,” said King. “But the evidence of wrongdoing by Wood and Gore is irrefutable—and this legal action will hold them to account.”
