Evan Rachel Wood is sharing more about the sexual abuse she says she experienced from ex Marilyn Manson in a new documentary.
Part 1 of the film Phoenix Rising premiered Sunday night at the Sundance Film Festival (the entire documentary debuts in full on HBO in March). In it, the three-time Golden Globe nominee, 34, discussed being groomed into a tumultuous relationship with Manson (born Brian Warner), from mid-2006 until early 2011. She likened it to being under the influence of his "cult."
Wood recalled that Manson's "first crime" against her allegedly took place while filming the now-53-year-old rocker's 2007 "Heart-Shaped Glasses" music video when she was 19.
"It's nothing like I thought it was going to be," Wood said in the music video. "We're doing things that were not what was pitched to me. ... We had discussed a simulated sex scene, but once the cameras were rolling, he started penetrating me for real. I had never agreed to that. I'm a professional actress, I've been doing this my whole life; I've never been on a set that unprofessional in my life up until this day."
"It was complete chaos," she continued. "I did not feel safe. No one was looking after me. It was a really traumatizing experience filming the video. I didn't know how to advocate for myself or know how to say no because I had been conditioned and trained to never talk back, to just soldier through."
Wood said that afterward she "felt disgusting and that I had done something shameful, and I could tell that the crew was very uncomfortable and nobody knew what to do."
"I was coerced into a commercial sex act under false pretenses," she added in the documentary, which was directed by Oscar nominee Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil). "That's when the first crime was committed against me. I was essentially raped on-camera."
The Westworld actress explained that she was "scared" to speak out about the incident at the time, citing violence that would "keep escalating over the course of the relationship." She said it took her a "really long time" to stop blaming herself and realize what was happening to her.
A rep for Manson did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. Manson has consistently denied such claims in the past.
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