Marilyn Manson finds soulmate

Marilyn Manson's forthcoming album, Eat Me, Drink Me, is the sort of darkly introspective material his fans adore -- but the singer had to hit emotional bottom before he could find his muse. He told France's Le Parisien newspaper that his divorce from elite stripper Dita Von Teese precipitated his downward decline, but it also provided topical fodder for the album. "Our relationship ended at Halloween," he said, "I was completely destroyed psychologically. I'd rented a house and begun working on this disc, which sort of tells everything that happened to me during the past year."

"I was married to someone who wanted me to change, become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. The record allowed me to put an end to that," he recalls. He also claims, on his website, to have been robbed by his associates, and forced to deal with his mother's mental illness. What helped him regain his focus was a friend handing a butcher knife to him and offering, with morbid mock seriousness, to allow him to stab her. "When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore."

Thematically, this resonates in the new track "If I Was Your Vampire," which Manson describes as "the new 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'... the all-time gothic anthem." The song is currently available on his myspace page.

The 38-year-old Manson has found a new soulmate in Evan Rachel Wood. "I've found my double, my twin, with my new girlfriend. She's 19 and certainly that's very young, but that's not a problem for me. She likes the same things as me. She understands I like to get up when night falls and go to sleep at dawn."

Manson met Wood when casting for his upcoming horror film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, which he directed. The movie will be released in October.
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