Marilyn Manson’s ex–keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy shared the following message regarding the singer’s recent onstage accident in NYC:

“I guess he was close enough for my black magic to work.

“This is why old wasted people shouldn’t fumble around in the dark.

“If he had broken his ankle [onstage like he was saying the night before the accident], he wouldn’t be walking around like this, that is probably just more of his hyperbole.

“I recall the same excuse being used to cancel a Los Angeles show when all it was was a slightly sprained ankle.

“And anyways, if you’re going to climb the scaffolding, shouldn’t you be doing that during ‘My Monkey’?

“Well, if it weren’t for the guns, the truss would have actually hit him pretty hard.

“Well, he is pretty famous for turning his wasted mistakes into serendipitous publicity events.

“The converse is also true: he often turns publicity events into wasted mistakes.

“The guns (I assume) were carved out of foam, which is really typical like Ozzy’s demons. And the truss maybe is aluminum. When you’re shipping things around the country you want them to be as light as possible and need as few crew hands as possible to move and set up.

“I’m only 16 miles away [from the venue]. And as the crow flies (or the voodoo works) it’s even shorter than that…

“I forgive him, but I hope he suffers.”

In related stuff, a fan named Brian Richards, who witnessed the NYC show from the front row, noted (via Alternative Nation):

“He was putting on a good show. He didn’t seem drunk or anything of that sort nor did his behavior with the prop appear reckless. One would assume it was firmly in place.

“From my view point in the front row it didn’t look like he put that much weight on it when it started tipping. He tried to brace himself and push it back but it completely tipped and fell on him.

“Two or three of his crew members rushed to get it off of him quickly. It seemed like he’d get back up but when he didn’t after 30 seconds or so a few more crew.

“The crew members (no EMT were on stage yet) tried to move him but several people from the audience, including myself yelled not to bc depending on the severity it could worsen the injury.

“Around this time his girlfriend (she’d been watching from a chair on the side of the stage) rushed over to him. His girlfriend rushed off to the stage within moments with her hand over her mouth and clearly panicked.

“That’s when I realized something was seriously wrong and started to dial 911. But the security guard near me said they had paramedics on sight.

“It was another minute or two before actual medics started to get on stage. They dimmed the lights when the medics came out and a while later they had guys hold up a curtain so we couldn’t see anything.

“They took him out on a stretcher behind the curtain. This was about 15 to 20 minutes after the incident happened. They then turned the lights back on and had a representative of the venue come out on stage and announce the concert would not commence.

“This was honestly one of the most traumatic things I’ve witnessed. The girl next to me, who I didn’t know prior to tonight, took my hand and was holding it and squeezing it for comfort and other girls were crying. It was really scary. I hope he’s OK.”