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...
On December 17th Bam Margera, who has recently remarried and living a life of sobriety, posted a photo on his Instagram with Marilyn Manson, adding the comment: "Swapping art at Marilyn Manson’s." We only have a photo right now of the painting Bam gifted Manson, which apparently was painted on 9/28/24 and contains a coded message that is a little too blurry to decipher for me, so if anyone figures it out, let me know.
