Billy Corgan defends his friendship with Marilyn Manson: “I personally didn’t feel that he was guilty”

Billy Corgan has defended his friendship with Marilyn Manson and said that he “personally didn’t feel that he was guilty” of sexual and domestic abuse. READ MORE: Billy Corgan on his new podcast ‘The Magnificent Others’: “I’d like to celebrate people in the culture who are misunderstood” The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has been friends with the shock rocker for decades now, and hit the road with him back in 2015 for the co-headlining ‘End Times Tour’. Manson spoke about how Corgan gifted him his very first guitar and tried to teach him how to play. He also opened up about having the same musical influences as Corgan and shared how they both love cats in a 2015 interview with Loudwire. They did have a falling out after Corgan penned Manson a letter to warn him about the impact of dating Rose McGowan, but buried the hatchet in 2014 when Manson joined Smashing Pumpkins on stage in London. More recently, Corgan joined a number of famous faces in attending Manson’s 56th birthday party last year, being spotted alongside James Iha, Falling in Reverse‘s Ronnie Radke and Motley Crüe guitarist John 5. Now, following numerous allegations of sexual and domestic abuse that have been made against...