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Although the February 2021 Instagram post was the first time Wood publicly named Warner as her alleged abuser, she has spoken publicly before about being a survivor of abuse.

In February 2018, she spoke about being a domestic violence and sexual assault survivor while appearing before the House Judiciary Committee to push for the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights Act, and in 2019, she spoke about being a survivor of abuse in front of the California Senate Public Safety committee in support of the Phoenix Act.

She did not name her abuser in either testimony. Wood first publicly described herself as a survivor of sexual assault in a public letter shared to Twitter in 2016.

Wood said on \"GMA\" she chose to speak out then because, \"So many survivors live in fear of judgment and retaliation and mainly live with shame, and I know because I experienced it. And whenever a survive comes forward or whenever there are allegations, it's hard for me not to make it personal. And I could feel at that time that it was time to say something. It was time to stop being silent.\"

Warner filed a lawsuit against Wood and Illma Gore, who is featured in the HBO project and who Warner claims is Wood's on-again, off-again romantic partner, earlier this month.

In the lawsuit, he alleges they used the documentary \"to recruit, coordinate and pressure women who have been linked to Warner to make false accusations of abuse against him.\"

The lawsuit also alleges that Wood and Gore impersonated an FBI agent in a fictitious letter \"to create the false appearance that Warner's alleged 'victims' and their families were in danger, and that there was a federal criminal investigation of Warner ongoing.\"

The lawsuit also claims that the women \"provided checklists and scripts to prospective accusers, listing the specific alleged acts of abuse that they should claim against Warner,\" among other complaints.

In response to the HBO documentary, Howard King, attorney for Brian Warner, issued the following statement to ABC News: \"As we detailed in our lawsuit, nothing that Evan Rachel Wood, Illma Gore or their hand-picked co-conspirators have said on this matter can be trusted,\" the statement read. \"This is just more of the same. But, then again, what else would you expect from a group who have spread falsehood after falsehood about Brian and even went as far as to forge an FBI letter to further their phony claims?\"

Part 1, \"Phoenix Rising: Don't Fall,\" premieres March 15 on HBO, and part 2, \"Phoenix Rising: Stand Up\" premiers March 16.

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