At a hearing held June 5, 2026, Judge Steve Cochran overruled a demurrer filed by Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, and Marilyn Manson Records, Inc., and denied a related motion to strike portions of Walters' Third Amended Complaint. The ruling means that Walters' lawsuit survives another legal challenge and that Warner must now file a formal answer to the complaint within twenty days. According to the court's minute order, Judge Cochran accepted certain documents or records that the defendants asked the court to consider, and rejected the plaintiff's argument against doing so, and ultimately concluded that the allegations were sufficient to move forward at this stage of the proceedings. The ruling follows months of litigation surrounding whether Walters' claims can proceed under California's recently enacted Assembly Bill 250 (AB 250), which took effect on January 1, 2026. The law created a temporary revival window allowing certain previously time-barre...
In a recent podcast interview about narcissistic abuse, Evan Rachel Wood said that Marilyn Manson described in his autobiography how the Brian Warner part of him was dead and whatever he had become was now his true self. Her purpose was to show that Manson completely abandoned his humanity and truly came to embody a disassociated narcissistic monster. But is this what his autobiography actually said or even implied? No, of course not. He says something along those lines, but she completely twists it to make a point that fits her narrative rather than the actual facts. What Manson actually describes in his autobiography is that he went through a personal apocalypse. He writes: "When I first conceived of Antichrist Superstar , I set out to create an apocalypse. But I didn’t realize it was going to be a personal one. As a child, I had been a weakling, a worm, a follower, a small shadow trying to find a place in an infinite world of light. In the end, in order to find that place...