A November 2017 Marilyn Manson Interview to Add Context to the Recent Unsealing of a Private Text Exchange With Johnny Depp

Shock Rocker Marilyn Manson chats how death impacted his latest album Heaven Upside Down and creating controversial art — after holding a fake gun to a US crowd The legendary musician opens up about his gun-totting video for single We Know Where You F****** Live and defends his buddy Johnny Depp from bad press By Rob Lewis November 10, 2017 The Sun "I’M just admiring myself in the mirror – I’ll only be a second . . .” Manson preens, reclining on a bed fit for an orgy in a dimly lit room on the upper storey of his quaint villa in the Hollywood hills. I’d been expecting something more gothic, more of a Marilyn’s mansion, if you will, when I was invited to his home. But why would anything be predictable in the world of the man who hit the headlines this week for pointing a fake gun at his crowd in San Bernardino on the day of the Texas church massacre? He’s one of the more unnerving people I’ve been stuck in a bedroom with and I leapt at the chance when he said: “I have the new vide