What did Marilyn Manson write about Trent Reznor?

In the book, co-authored by Neil Strauss, Manson described how in the 90s, he and Reznor had allegedly physically and sexually abused an inebriated woman.

Trent Reznor issued a statement regarding his former friend and collaborator, Marilyn Mason. The statement shared with Pitchfork comes days after Manson’s former partner, comes days after Manson’s former partner Evan Rachel Wood alleged that the musician groomed and abused her during their relationship.

Reznor’s statement address an anecdote involving Reznor that Manson included in his 1998 autobiography, The Long Hard Road out of his hell.

In the story, which recently surfaced, Mason recounts a horrific scene in which he and Reznor allegedly physically and sexually assaulted an inebriated woman in the 1990s. The passage was reportedly originally from an unpublished 1995 interview in Empyrean Magazine.

When Manson was asked by the Empyrean interviewer how he ended up working with Reznor, he told the aforementioned story. According to the book, this took place the night before Reznor told Manson that he wanted to sign him to Nothing Records.