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Marilyn Manson says he was devastated over the breakup of his marriage to model and burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese.
"I was completely destroyed. I had no soul left," he said. "I define myself as a person, a human, an artist, as someone who makes things and I couldn't do anything."
Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, married Von Teese in November 2005. She filed for divorce last December.
"She said she had tolerated the lifestyle because she hoped I would change and threatened to leave if I didn't," Manson says.
"I was sleeping on the couch in my own home. I was no longer supposed to be a rock star. I was someone who had to be apologised for.
"I wasnt prepared to be alone. I came out of this naked, a featherless bird."
But he said his outlook changed when his friendship with young actress Evan Rachel Wood turned to love and she said she would die for him. "It might sound strange, but this made me want to live," Manson said.
