Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has alleged in a brand new memoir that he was abused for years by the Canadian rock band’s former supervisor.
Within the memoir, Whibley accuses the band’s first supervisor, Greig Nori, of grooming and sexually abusing him beginning when he was a teen.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Occasions, the singer says he stored the darkish facet of the connection secret from his bandmates for years.
Mr Nori has stated known as Whibley’s allegations “false”.
Sum 41 is a multi-award successful punk band shaped in 1996 that has bought greater than 15 million albums worldwide.
Whibley’s memoir, Strolling Catastrophe: My Life Via Heaven and Hell, which was revealed Tuesday, paperwork the ups and downs of the band’s early begin within the Toronto music scene and its rise to worldwide stardom.
Its starting was aided partly by Mr Nori – then in his 30s and the frontman of a preferred Canadian indie band. He met Whibley after a present and start to mentor him.
Mr Nori later grew to become the fledgling band’s supervisor.
Whibley stated one night time, Mr Nori all of a sudden, “passionately” kissed him in a rest room stall at a rave, shocking and complicated the then-18 12 months outdated, who was excessive on ecstasy on the time.
He alleges Mr Nori coerced him into an undesirable sexual relationship that lasted about 4 years.
“Greig stored pushing for issues to occur once we had been collectively,” he writes within the memoir, in accordance with the Toronto Star.
“I began feeling like I used to be being pressured to do one thing in opposition to my will.”
When the bodily relationship ended, Whibley, now 44, alleges Mr Nori continued with verbal and psychological abuse.
Whibley alleges he revealed the connection to his former spouse, Canadian singer Avril Lavigne, who stated: “That is abuse! He sexually abused you.”
The couple had been married from 2006 to 2009.
The Sum 41singer informed the Toronto Star in an interview that he thought the connection with Mr Nori can be “a deep, darkish secret I used to be going to take to my grave”.
“However I did not know tips on how to inform the story [of the band] with out it, as a result of it was so intertwined with all the things that was occurring in my life again at that time, nearly each day.”
The band parted methods with Mr Nori in 2005.
Mr Nori informed the Globe and Mail that Whibley’s claims had been “false allegations”, and stated he had retained a defamation lawyer.
The BBC has reached out to Mr Nori for remark.
Whibley informed the LA Occasions he didn’t warn Mr Nori concerning the allegations within the memoir earlier than it was revealed.
“I’ve had an interior battle, like, ‘Why do I wish to inform him? As a result of I really feel like I’m speculated to? As a result of he nonetheless has this factor over me?” he informed the newspaper.
Sum 41 is presently on its farewell world tour and might be disbanding after 28 years collectively.