Actor Esme Bianco, best known for playing Ros in Game of Thrones, is the latest woman to level allegations of physical and psychological abuse against heavy metal-rock singer Marilyn Manson, whom she dated in 2011.
The British actor joins Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood and five other women in alleging abuse by Manson, whose real name is Bryan Warner.
In an interview with The Cut magazine, the 38-year-old actor said the rocker was a “massive role model who really helped me through some incredibly dark and difficult times as a teenager”, but went on to become “monster who almost destroyed me and almost destroyed so many women”.
Bianco claimed Manson inflicted cuts and bruises that left permanent scars on her body, including cutting her torso with a knife. “I just remember laying there, and I didn’t fight it. It was kind of this final-straw moment where I had lost all sense of hope and safety,” she said.
Bianco, who was friends with his then-wife Dita Von Teese through the burlesque world, met the singer in 2009 when she was cast in an unreleased Manson music video. Following his divorce from Von Teese, Bianco and Manson started dating. Bianco said she still has PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) from her few months living with Manson. (PTI)
