Throughout One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 , Marilyn Manson constructs a dark journey through death, violence, accusation, isolation, mortality, and the search for something beyond him. “Don’t Answer the Door” speaks of a voice being a guiding light in the darkness, while “None of the Suns” speaks of running away from the daylight and being “in the black.” By the time we arrive at “Lucifer’s Teardrop,” the journey has reached a different point. The darkness is still present, but the speaker is finally prepared to stand before what shines. “Lucifer’s Teardrop” is therefore less a departure from everything that came before it than a turning point within it. The fallen angel at the center of the song has been cast out, wounded, and changed by what happened to him, but he is no longer simply defined by the fall. He is “finding my way home.” That movement becomes especially important when considered alongside Manson’s own explanation of the song. He said that its title was inspired...
Claim: In High School, Evan Rachel Wood and Her Friends Formed a Group Called "The Berets," out of boredom.
Fact: False, Evan Rachel Wood never attended High School, therefore it is not possible for this to have taken place.
Evan Rachel Wood is known at this point for rewriting aspects of her personal history, to the point where it has become almost impossible to trust any story she has to say unless it can be verified with certainty. One of many such made up stories can be heard from an interview she did for the Comedy Central show Stir Crazy with Josh Horowitz, which was posted online on September 22, 2020. During this time, she was promoting her film Kajillionaire, while behind the scenes she was filming her documentary Phoenix Rising, which documents her plotting with other women, including her then girlfriend Illma Gore, to expose Marilyn Manson as her abuser.
During the interview, Josh Horowitz asks a series of lighthearted questions to Evan, among them being (at the 5:45 mark in the video below), due to her role as a criminal in Kajillionaire, if she had ever been arrested. Her response was as follows:
When the interviewer expressed disappointment in her answer, she added:
It should be noted that as Evan was answering this question, she was giving all the signs that she was lying - unusual pauses or hesitation, increased fidgeting, scratching her face, playing with her hair.
But these signs are not the only way we know with certainty that this story is not true. If you notice in her response, she says that this friend group called The Berets was formed in high school out of boredom, and in case she may be defended to have misspoken, she repeats a second time that this group was formed by "bored high schoolers." This detail is precisely how we can fact check to see if her story is true or not, because an important fact reveals this could not possibly have been true...
Evan Rachel Wood never went to high school.
After briefly attending a public junior high school in California's San Fernando Valley, she left due to severe bullying and the social environment. She switched exclusively to homeschooling at age 12 (through online/distance programs like Laurel Springs School) and successfully graduated with her high school diploma at age 15.
Since she received her high school diploma via homeschooling at the age of 15, then this story could not possibly be true.
Besides, a story about bored high school girls forming a group and calling themselves after a fashion item sounds like it was taken out of a movie like Grease, which depicted a group of high school girls called the Pink Ladies that wore pink satin jackets in the 1950's. This was just not a thing to do in the early 2000's unless you were a gang member.
And no, Evan did not participate in any schooling after the age of 15. Instead of attending college or university, she transitioned immediately into full-time acting. Her graduation at age 15 coincided directly with her breakthrough performance in the film Thirteen (2003). Because her acting career accelerated rapidly following that role, she chose to focus entirely on her professional work in Hollywood rather than continuing her formal academic studies.
Between the ages of 15 and 18 (September 2002 to September 2005), Evan Rachel Wood capitalized heavily on her post-Thirteen momentum by starring in a series of films:
- 2003 (Age 15–16) The Missing
- 2004 (Age 16–17) Pretty Persuasion
- 2005 (Age 17–18) The Upside of Anger
- 2005 (Age 17–18) Down in the Valley
During these years she was the youngest actress ever nominated for a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award, was heavily celebrated by fashion and entertainment media landing cover features in publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, starred in Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" music video (2005), and was so busy that she rejected starring roles in Mean Girls (2004) and Raise Your Voice (2004). But the one thing she certainly did not do is be a bored high schooler who formed a group with her friends called The Berets, who each wore a different color beret and stole lipstick from a local drugstore.
Fact: False, Evan Rachel Wood never attended High School, therefore it is not possible for this to have taken place.
Evan Rachel Wood is known at this point for rewriting aspects of her personal history, to the point where it has become almost impossible to trust any story she has to say unless it can be verified with certainty. One of many such made up stories can be heard from an interview she did for the Comedy Central show Stir Crazy with Josh Horowitz, which was posted online on September 22, 2020. During this time, she was promoting her film Kajillionaire, while behind the scenes she was filming her documentary Phoenix Rising, which documents her plotting with other women, including her then girlfriend Illma Gore, to expose Marilyn Manson as her abuser.
During the interview, Josh Horowitz asks a series of lighthearted questions to Evan, among them being (at the 5:45 mark in the video below), due to her role as a criminal in Kajillionaire, if she had ever been arrested. Her response was as follows:
“I have not been arrested. I may have broken some laws in high school. My friends and I were really really bored and we created a group called 'The Berets,' and to be in 'The Berets,' which each of us wore a different color beret—again, bored high schoolers—you had to steal lipstick from a drugstore. So I did. I did steal lipstick once.”
When the interviewer expressed disappointment in her answer, she added:
"You know, aside from any sort of recreational drugs, that may have been legal, that, you know ... who knows."
It should be noted that as Evan was answering this question, she was giving all the signs that she was lying - unusual pauses or hesitation, increased fidgeting, scratching her face, playing with her hair.
But these signs are not the only way we know with certainty that this story is not true. If you notice in her response, she says that this friend group called The Berets was formed in high school out of boredom, and in case she may be defended to have misspoken, she repeats a second time that this group was formed by "bored high schoolers." This detail is precisely how we can fact check to see if her story is true or not, because an important fact reveals this could not possibly have been true...
Evan Rachel Wood never went to high school.
After briefly attending a public junior high school in California's San Fernando Valley, she left due to severe bullying and the social environment. She switched exclusively to homeschooling at age 12 (through online/distance programs like Laurel Springs School) and successfully graduated with her high school diploma at age 15.
Since she received her high school diploma via homeschooling at the age of 15, then this story could not possibly be true.
Besides, a story about bored high school girls forming a group and calling themselves after a fashion item sounds like it was taken out of a movie like Grease, which depicted a group of high school girls called the Pink Ladies that wore pink satin jackets in the 1950's. This was just not a thing to do in the early 2000's unless you were a gang member.
And no, Evan did not participate in any schooling after the age of 15. Instead of attending college or university, she transitioned immediately into full-time acting. Her graduation at age 15 coincided directly with her breakthrough performance in the film Thirteen (2003). Because her acting career accelerated rapidly following that role, she chose to focus entirely on her professional work in Hollywood rather than continuing her formal academic studies.
Between the ages of 15 and 18 (September 2002 to September 2005), Evan Rachel Wood capitalized heavily on her post-Thirteen momentum by starring in a series of films:
- 2003 (Age 15–16) The Missing
- 2004 (Age 16–17) Pretty Persuasion
- 2005 (Age 17–18) The Upside of Anger
- 2005 (Age 17–18) Down in the Valley
During these years she was the youngest actress ever nominated for a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award, was heavily celebrated by fashion and entertainment media landing cover features in publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair, starred in Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" music video (2005), and was so busy that she rejected starring roles in Mean Girls (2004) and Raise Your Voice (2004). But the one thing she certainly did not do is be a bored high schooler who formed a group with her friends called The Berets, who each wore a different color beret and stole lipstick from a local drugstore.