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Evan Rachel Wood, Marilyn Manson’s much-younger girlfriend, admits she can’t handle his Mansinthe brand of absinthe. “For my birthday, I did one shot to try it, and that was it,” she said at a screening of her new film, The Life Before Her Eyes. “I was drunk immediately.” Strong stuff? “Being who he is, Manson wanted to make it as strong as it could possibly be, so it’s got the highest amount of wormwood that you can have legally. One shot of it, and you’re out for the night. Three shots of it, you’re dead.” Is Manson man enough to handle it? “I think he agrees with me,” Wood said. “You can’t really drink Mansinthe every day.”

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