Last month a video depicting Lana del Rey being raped by director Eli Roth took over the internet. That clip was allegedly from a Marilyn Manson music video from the album Born Villain released in 2012. The leaked Lana Del Rey rape video came at a time when the society is gripped by cases involving violence on women. Thus, it occupied a lot of headlines. Manson has since then denied any involvement on the video. This week, he spoke again to media to finally put the issue to rest.
"It wasn't a Marilyn Manson video," Marilyn Manson told the NME.
"The editor of the company that put it out was somebody who's edited my videos, that video was something that was done with a camera that Eli, who's my friend, and I both wanted to test out, so I let him test it out... what they filmed was put in context seemingly as if it were a Marilyn Manson video, and that was in no way the intention."
However, he did say that he wanted to do a video with the 'Born to Die' singer but things got out of hand because the female singer is 'being a problem.'
"Eli and I wanted to do a music video with her (Lana del Rey), but she was being such a problem," Manson said. "Although I still respect her, I'm friends with her. I just left, I was tired, I was not willing to make that part of the video. Eli and I originally had intentions of making a video with her, but that is not the intention that is represented in that film clip because that is not what I filmed, not for my video."
The leaked Lana del Rey rape video has been viewed more than 1 million times on Youtube. Lana del Rey is yet to comment on the issue.
