American God and Creepshow over the latest abuse allegations, made a statement on Istagram on February 1 responding to Wood's allegations. "Obviously, my life and my art have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality," he wrote. "My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how—and why—others are now choosing to misinterpret the past, that is the truth." In 2018, after a police report was filed against Manson citing unspecified sex crimes allegedly dating from 2011, his attorney told The Hollywood Reporter that the "allegations made to the police were and are categorically denied by Mr. Warner and are either completely delusional or part of a calculated attempt to generate publicity… Any claim of sexual impropriety or imprisonment at that, or any other, time is false." At the time, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office announced that it was declining to pursue that case due to a lack of corroborating evidence.