There Is a Bad Boo-Boo on Marilyn Manson's Heart

Emmett Kelly died long ago, but it's OK because we have Marilyn Manson, in all his water-retaining gothiness, to fill the void of the sad clown. In a new interview with Spin, the 40-year-old talks about his breakup with 20-years-younger Evan Rachel Wood, and how it was such a wicked bum-out that he totally crossed her name off the spine of his Geometry book and drew buck teeth and cross eyes on pictures of her. Rar! Take that!

My lowest point was Christmas Day 2008, because I didn't speak to my family. My walls were covered in scrawlings of the lyrics and cocaine bags nailed to the wall. And every time I called her that day — I called 158 times — I took a razorblade and I cut myself on my face or on my hands.

"This was intentional, this was a scarification, and this was like a tattoo. I wanted to show her the pain she put me through. It sounds made up but it's completely true and I don't give a shit if people believe it or not. I've got the scars to prove it. I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer."

Aw, hey, Manson. Buck up. Turn that frown upside down, little guy. It happens to the best of us. We all go through a phase like that! Usually it's called eighth grade.