Asked to sum up boyfriend Marilyn Manson’s appeal in just one word, Evan Rachel Wood barely hesitates: “Eyeliner.”

“If you’ve ever dated me, then you would have ended up wearing eyeliner at some point,” she tells the British edition of Elle in its August issue. “All my boyfriends have.”

Makeup aside, Wood says the rocker – whom she calls simply “Manson” – is “lovely, really human and just amazing. It may surprise you just how healthy and loving our relationship is.”

“He’s crazy!” she says, laughing. “And crazy, by the way, is the highest compliment I pay. Manson is definitely crazy. Hopefully I am, too.”

Wood, 19, says she and Manson, 38, met at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, “both of us hiding in the corner of a party neither of us wanted to be at.”

She says they became “movie buddies,” until one night – after he separated from wife Dita Von Teese in December 2006 (Von Teese filed for divorce five days later) – “we just suddenly looked into one another’s eyes and knew.”

(Sources told PEOPLE in January that Manson’s relationship with Wood was a factor in Von Teese’s decision to file for divorce.)

Despite Manson’s hard-partying reputation, Wood says she herself is “hopeless at drinking.” Asked about drugs, she says: “I’m not saying I’m an angel, I just don’t have an addictive personality. Even today, with Manson, I’m happier staying home watching movies.”

She also gushes about her beau’s influence on her: “You should see his house, omigod, it’s a hurricane of creativity. And it’s making me feel more creative than ever before. I’m writing poetry, songs, taking photographs, experimenting with fashion, everything.”

Other things she’s learned from her relationship: “Just how cruel people can be. I’ve seen blogs where I’ve been called a slut, a whore, that say I should be condemned to death simply because I’ve fallen in love. Surely the fact that we are both prepared to go through all this proves just how important – and real – our love is, no? Everyone is so worried that I’m losing myself but really I’m finding myself. I’ve never been more comfortable in my own skin.”

Previously, Wood dated Billy Elliott actor Jamie Bell, whom she met at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. She has a ‘J’ tattooed in green on her left ankle – and for the record, yes, Bell wore eyeliner when he dated her. (”He looked great in mascara,” she says.)

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Rose McGowan isn’t showing much guilt about removing director Robert Rodriguez from his wife, Elizabeth Avellan. McGowan and Rodriguez nuzzled for the cameras at Wednesday’s AmFAR benefit in Cannes. But McGowan doesn’t seem as inured to Dita Von Teese, the woman Marilyn Manson married instead of her — McGowan stepped outside during Von Teese’s burlesque act. Meanwhile, artist-director Julian Schnabel seemed bothered when bidding slowed on his artworks at the auction. “It’s not a party favor,” Schnabel grumbled. “I don’t know if anybody understands or cares about art in this room.” Most everyone was bothered by the heat. Said George Clooney: “We’re going to auction off an air conditioner for $500,000!”

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Marilyn Manson fears his music will be held responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre on Monday, just like it was after the Columbine shootings in April 1999.

Manson worries his music is going to come into question again as people look for someone to blame for the drama that unfolded on campus at the university on Monday, leaving 33 people dead.

In a BBC radio interview last night, Manson said, “I was watching it in the same way that I can remember watching the TV when Columbine happened, and just seeing it take place as any other person would.

“Then suddenly Columbine happened and my name got brought into it and I wouldn’t be surprised if my name got brought into this.”

Back in 1999, family groups claimed Manson’s dark and brooding music encouraged student fans to launch a killing spree at Columbine High School in Colorado.

Marilyn Manson split with wife Dita Von Teese late last year, but he’s already found a new soul mate, he says.

“I’ve found my double, my twin, with my new girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood,” the 38-year-old rocker tells France’s Le Parisien newspaper.

“She’s l9 and certainly that’s very young,” he added, “but that’s not a problem for me. She likes the same things as me. She understands I like to get up when night falls and go to sleep at dawn.”

A solo Manson was in Paris for three days to promote his upcoming sixth album, Eat Me, Drink Me, and he said depression and his ongoing divorce from Von Teese, 34, inspired the project.

“Our relationship ended at Halloween,” he tells the paper. “I was completely destroyed psychologically. I’d rented a house and begun working on this disc, which sort of tells everything that happened to me during the past year.”

Manson – whose real name Brian Warner – and Von Teese – née Heather Sweet – wed in December 2005, and sources told PEOPLE in January that his relationship with Wood was a factor in Von Teese’s decision to file for divorce on Dec. 29.

“I was married to someone who wanted me to change,” Manson says. “Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. The record allowed me to put an end to that. Dita left at Christmas while I was recording.”

According to his Web site, Manson first met Wood when he asked her to be in his upcoming horror film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. He tells Le Parisien the film, which he directed and which features Woods and British teen model Lily Cole sharing the role of Alice in Wonderland, will be out in October.

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Rocker Marilyn Manson credits his upcoming album Eat Me, Drink Me for saving his life after his most messed up year. The hitmaker admits 2006 was a terrible 12 months for him, and he’s amazed he’s still alive after a string of events ended with his wife, burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, filing divorce papers at Christmas.

Manson – real name Brian Warner – says, “As many dark places that I’ve gone in my life and in my music this past year… it’s a real wonder that I’m alive. I never wanted to make music again, but this was the only salvation I had going for me. Somehow I came out of that, and I came out of that writing a song, and that song turned into a record.”

The song that turned his fortunes and feelings around, Just A Car Crash Away, has stunned friends he’s played it to. He adds, “A couple (of) people I’ve played it for have cried… I just think it’s terribly romantic, in a Bram Stoker (Dracula author) sort of way.”

Yeah, Bram Stroker is on MY top 5 romantic movies.

Marilyn Manson is trying to block any future claim of spousal support from estranged wife Dita Von Teese in divorce papers filed today.

Manson also lists the date of separation from the burlesque dancer as Halloween (aw, how romantic!) - not Christmas Eve as she claimed.

Both Manson, 38, and Von Teese, 34, cite “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their split.

Manson attempted to block any claims of spousal support, although Von Teese currently has not asked for any. He also wants her to pay her own legal fees, while she is seeking to have him pay for the divorce. Von Teese filed for divorce on 29 December, after just over a year of marriage.

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Marilyn’s a bitch.  But that’s just my opinion.