In an amended lawsuit filed Friday, lawyers for former Marilyn Manson assistant Ashley Walters stated that she repressed the memories of much of the sexual abuse and battery she claimed she endured during her time with the shock rocker, only confronting what occurred following therapy sessions in the fall of 2020.
Walters first sued the singer born Brian Warner in May 2011; Manson’s lawyers attempted to have the lawsuit thrown out in January 2022 on the basis of statute of limitations, but the judge overseeing the case declined to rule on that motion until a later date.
The amended lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, comes months after a similar lawsuit, filed against Manson by a Jane Doe victim, was briefly dismissed because the accusations fell outside California’s statute of limitations; that lawsuit was refiled in Sept. 2021, with Doe’s lawyers arguing she “repressed the…
