Evan Rachel Wood Reveals What Attracted Her to Marilyn Manson

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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Re: Evan Rachel Wood Reveals What Attracted Her to Marilyn Manson

They both skeeve me.

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Posted by Stacey1403

"Manson" – is "lovely, really human

I always describe my DH this way

They are so weird!

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Posted by Stacey1403

"Manson" – is "lovely, really human

I always describe my DH this way

They are so weird!

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Re: Evan Rachel Wood Reveals What Attracted Her to Marilyn Manson

I was wondering what made me so hot for MM, and she hit the nail on the head. Eyeliner. Swoon

Re: Evan Rachel Wood Reveals What Attracted Her to Marilyn Manson

cuckooooooo!!!!!!!!

She "doesn't have an addictive personality" - ok, so that makes doing drugs ok?

OMG he was her age when she was born.

Re: Evan Rachel Wood Reveals What Attracted Her to Marilyn Manson

doesn't she have parents?

this is beyond disgusting.