Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley continues to say he was sexually abused by his band’s former supervisor.
Whibley claims in his memoir, “Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell,” launched earlier this month, that producer-musician Greig Nori “groomed” and “sexually abused” him for years , beginning when he was 16 and Nori was 34. .
Nori has since denied “pressuring” Whibley to do something, telling the Toronto Star final week: “The accusation that he initiated the connection is fake. I did not begin it. Whibley began it, aggressively.
He went on to say that “when the connection started Whibley was an grownup” and that over time, the couple’s bond “simply light away. Consensually.” Nori didn’t immediately deal with the allegations of solicitation or sexual abuse.
Whibley responded to Nori’s assertion in a video on Tuesday on Xsaying, “It’s been an especially powerful week for me.”
“It occurred to me that Greig Nori referred to as me a liar. I’ll inform you proper now, I stand by each phrase that is in my ebook, 100%,” he stated, insisting that he is “not a liar.”
Whibley continued: “I’ll converse to you immediately, Greig Nori. If you suppose I’m a liar, there’s just one technique to resolve this matter: below oath. In entrance of a decide, in entrance of a jury, everytime you need. I’m prepared every time you might be.”
Nori and a consultant for Whibley didn’t instantly reply to The Times’ request for remark.
In “Walking Disaster,” Whibley describes first assembly Nori at considered one of his Treble Charger exhibits, when the younger musician snuck backstage to ask his fellow Canadian to considered one of Sum 41’s upcoming performances.
Nori grew to become Whibley’s vocal coach, then Sum 41’s supervisor. At first, in line with Whibley, Nori appeared to assist the band get off the bottom, however step by step “wished whole management”.
“We could not speak to anybody however him, as a result of the music enterprise is ‘stuffed with snakes and liars’ and he was the one individual we might belief,” Whibley instructed the Times earlier this month, forward of publication of his memoir.
Whibley was 18 when Nori made her first transfer on her younger musician, Whibley stated. Squeezed collectively in a toilet, Whibley writes in his memoir, Nori grabbed his face and kissed him “passionately.”
Whibley stated Nori justified his actions as an exploration of queer id, one thing he stated many rock stars of the time had been “afraid” to sort out, in line with the ebook. When Whibley ultimately tried to finish their bodily encounters, he stated Nori grew to become offended, calling Whibley “homophobic” and saying she owed him “owe” for kickstarting his music profession, in line with the memoir.
The sexual interactions between the 2 lastly ended when a mutual good friend realized what had occurred, Whibley says in his account. That good friend, in addition to Whibley’s former accomplice, Avril Lavigne, and his present spouse of 10 years, mannequin Ariana Cooper, instructed him that what he had suffered was “abuse.”
Years later, Sum 41 lastly parted methods with Nori, Whibley stated. But the singer by no means instructed his bandmates in regards to the alleged abuse. They came upon like everybody else did, by means of the memoir.
When Whibley started writing “Walking Disaster,” he stated he feared folks would inform him, “This is your fault,” he instructed the Times. But ultimately “he did not maintain again”.
“I’ve gotten to some extent the place I believe, ‘I do not care what folks get out of it.’ This was the one method I might write the ebook,” he stated.
