Game Of Thrones actor Esmé Bianco is the latest woman to step forward with claims of abuse suffered at the hands of rocker Marilyn Manson, real name Brian Warner.
In a new interview with The Cut, Bianco describes Manson whom she idolized as a teen and subsequently had a relationship with as an adult, a "monster who almost destroyed me and almost destroyed so many women.”
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In an interview on February 11 with Good Morning America, Bianco, who played the character Ros in HBO's hit series Game Of Thrones, went into further detail about her story saying it took her seven years to realize what she had gone through at the time constituted domestic violence.
The actor said of Manson, "he would hide abuse by doing it during sex.” When asked her reasons for returning after being mistreated, Bianco said, "I thought he was in love with me, I did not understand that what was happening to me was very, very wrong."
Bianco says she left her husband in London and moved to California to live with Manson following a long-distance affair. It was then she claims he started to control all aspects of her life. "I was coerced, I was defrauded, I was transported from the U.K. to the U.S., I was harbored, and then I was coerced into involuntary servitude, which included sexual abuse and physical abuse," Bianco explained to GMA.
In a post on her social channels this morning, Esmé put it all in her own words saying, “I am naming the person who abused and human trafficked me. His name is Marilyn Manson, born Brian Hugh Warner. I am coming forward after years of living with the unthinkable trauma I endured at the hands of the serial predator known to many as Marilyn Manson."
"I am speaking up now, in my own way, and sharing this story with others because he must be held accountable," she continued. "No one should ever go through what I - and so many other survivors - have experienced. It’s important that we all understand that people can be abused and trafficked by intimate partners, boyfriends, and husbands. We must address the misconceptions around human trafficking because it can happen to anyone like it happened to me.”
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Bianco's allegations come on the heels of a massive fallout for the musician following actor Evan Rachel Wood's statement issued earlier this month testifying to her own experience of grooming and abuse by Manson when they were together.
Manson has since been dropped from his record label and has become a pariah even in circles he once felt safe. Former label mate Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has in the past and more recently disavowed his friendship with Manson, as well as his former touring guitarist and Limp Bizkit member Wes Borland.
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Former fiancé, actor Rose McGowan, has lent her own support for the women who have come forward with their emotional testimonies, as has Manson's former wife, Dita Von Teese -- both mentioning that their experiences did not mirror those being described.
Manson's full statement which he shared on social media on February 1 says, "Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality. My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how - and why - others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth."
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