In the documentary Phoenix Rising, Evan Rachel Wood claimed for the first time she was drugged and "essentially raped" while filming the sex scene in 'Heart-Shaped Glasses'. Evan initially considered her work on the video among her proudest work till that time, and spoke positively of the experience, even claiming it to be very romantic, and she would deny reports from that time where the rumor spread that it was a real sex scene. Manson took another approach and allowed the viewer to interpret for themselves if the sex in the video was real or not, thereby never saying whether it was either real or simulated. Because the media continued to speculate on the matter, a rep for Manson issued a simple one sentence response to the media to give the final word on the matter and end the speculation: "It was simulated sex."