At the age of 16, Evan Rachel Wood had already received a Golden Globe nomination for Thirteen (2003). The daughter of two divorced filmmakers, her adolescence was marked by professional success and an affair with actor Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot). Everything started to get complicated when she fell in love with the controversial singer Marilyn Manson when she was only 18 years old. Her life with him was a cataract of sexual abuse, violence, humiliation and drugs. They finally broke up after a suicide attempt by the actress.

This docuseries has creepy moments in which degrading images of the video clips in which the singer and the actress appeared are not avoided. What is more successful and subtle is the use of photographs and paintings of the singer that express the degradation process of the protagonist, and the fragments of Manson's diary that are chilling. It is heartbreaking to see how her parents did not perceive the danger of their daughter living with a man who had changed his name to take the surname of the sociopath Charles Manson, and who liked to beat and make misogynistic, pro-Nazi and racist jokes in the middle of a concert.

Although the documentary has an important testimonial value, it lacks a greater variety of voices in the narration and a journalist who asks more incisive questions. During more than two hours of footage there are essential questions that are not resolved: Why was this singer able to commit all these illegal behaviors in public without being punished? What led this young actress with sensitivity, future and a loving mother to give herself fully to such a dark being? The only answer is that she was very young... But it is clear that at 20 years old there is already enough maturity not to be subjugated in such a way. It is clear that the abuser is responsible and must pay for his crimes, but perhaps it would be good that in this type of testimony there are not so deterministic conclusions that lead to think that it was inevitable. There are many voices of young people who rebel and do not give in to blackmail, who reject at a very young age all this kind of inhuman proposals in the artistic field. It would be interesting and educational to listen to them more often.