Marilyn Manson says Lana Del Rey rape clip 'wasn't a Manson video'

Marilyn Manson has said the controversial video clip that briefly surfaced online last month, purporting to be a Manson clip and featuring a scene in which Lana Del Rey is raped, “wasn’t a Marilyn Manson video”.

Although Manson was involved in some aspects of the video, he told NME the rape scene was nothing to do with his work and was filmed at another time and edited in without his knowledge or consent.

“It wasn’t a Marilyn Manson video,” he singer said. “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 [Roth], 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.”

Manson’s representatives had already said he was not involved in the video, but this is the first time he has spoken about it himself. He said he and Roth, the director, had wanted to make a video with Lana Del Rey, but were unable to because “she was being such a problem”. He added: “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.”

He said that the makers of the rape scene then ��put it together with my other clips. And it really strongly stands out of place, it doesn’t really make sense. I would not make a video of that nature, nor would Eli. I don’t think either of us were ever intending for that to be seen, it was more of a camera test. I’m a person that would beat somebody’s ass if they raped somebody that I know.”

However, Manson and Roth did film some footage with Del Rey, according to the director, who told Larry King last year that the resulting footage was “so sick, it’s been locked in a vault for over a year”.