Marilyn Manson bassist Jeordie "Twiggy Ramirez" White was accused by his ex-girlfriend Jessicka Adams of sexual assault on October 20, 2017. Four days later, Manson let Twiggy go from his band, and Twiggy offered a fairly vague statement on the whole thing. Twiggy elaborated a little bit more after that, noting "I do not condone non-consensual sex of any kind," but Manson never offered a comment on the situation.
Now in an interview with Kerrang!, Manson says he still cares about Twiggy as a person and let him go from the band due to personality conflicts. The statement doesn't really elaborate, so we're left trying to piece this one together a little bit.
"I did not divorce Twiggy as a friend or brother, because I still care about him greatly. But I can’t say that my musical relationship with Twiggy has been good for several years.
My relationship with Tyler Bates on The Pale Emperor made something open up in me and I didn’t want to let negative energy back in my life.
There were other people in my life that I thought were my friends that I had to cut out this year, a lot of betrayals that surprised me, and I had to clean house and adopt and new attitude.
People mistook my kindness and generosity for weakness. So I kinda adapted this attitude, like, ‘If you fuck with me, there will be consequences.’ I have issues with intimacy. That might sound weird given that we’re lying in bed together, but y’know…"
Manson is currently employing ex-The Mars Volta & ex-Racer X bassist Juan Alderete as his live bassist.
