Photo Andy Dick posted on Instagram on March 18, 2020. During a September 29, 2025 interview on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast, actor Seth Green recounted witnessing Marilyn Manson punch comedian Andy Dick in the throat during a night out in New York City around 2003. The Encounter Around the time they were filming the movie Party Monster , Green, along with Macaulay Culkin and Marilyn Manson, were on their way to a club when they encountered Andy Dick. The Provocation When Dick joined the group, he tried to get the attention of both Culkin and Manson. He first interacted with Culkin, who pushed him away. The Punch Dick then turned his attention to Manson. At that point, Manson allegedly made "meaningful eye contact" with Green before striking Dick in the throat, causing Dick to fall back into the coach clutching his throat. Manson's Reaction According to Green, Manson was known for being "quick to punch people" if they got too close, and ...
When on February 1st 2021 Marilyn Manson was called out by name on social media by Evan Rachel Wood and a number of other women for alleged abusive behavior, and in the lawsuits that followed months later, one of the most common terms used to describe this abusive behavior was "gaslighting", which is an umbrella term that includes grooming, controlling, brainwashing, love bombing and manipulating with a goal to get someone to question their own reality, memory or perceptions. The association of Marilyn Manson with gaslighting began with Evan Rachel Wood's 2018 congressional testimony , in which she described that the abuse she suffered by her then anonymous abuser was centered around gaslighting. She said: My experience with domestic violence was this. Toxic mental, physical, and sexual abuse, which started slow, but escalated over time, including threats against my life, severe gaslighting and brainwashing, waking up to the man that claimed to love me raping what he beli...