SWMRS battery Joey Armstrong, the son of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, has responded after being accused of sexual misconduct and abuse by Regrets vocalist and guitarist Lydia Night. In a post on the band’s Instagram, he writes:
Hi all,
I want to head over to Lydia’s Instagram post about our relationship. While I disagree with some of the things she said about me, it is important that she is allowed to say them and that she is supported to speak. I respect her immensely and accept that I failed her as a partner. I was selfish and didn’t treat her the way she deserves to have been treated both during our relationship and in the two years since we broke up. I apologized to her privately and hope she can forgive me, if she is ready to do it and when she does. I own my mistakes and will work hard to regain the confidence I lost.
-Joey
In Night’s statement, she describes being in a relationship with Armstrong that started when she was 16 and he was 22, and ended shortly before her 18th birthday. “For a long time I saw it as toxic and not valid enough to share it, but now I know that what I really experienced was emotional abuse and sexual coercion by someone in a position of power over me,” he writes. Read her full statement below.
Night says he decided to show up because of another post on SWMRS’s Instagram. In it, they address the allegations made against Mikey Carnevale of The Frights and Zoe Lambert of No Parents, saying, “We want to publicly condemn her behavior and encourage her to read the stories of the survivors and their responses.” They also write: “It is antithetical to our core values as musicians to use this power for anything other than music. It is antithetical to our core values as humans to use this power for sexual exploits. People trust us so much when they see our shows and We have always done our best to honor that. We try to focus the safety of our community on every decision we make. ” Read the full post below.
SWMRS released an album on Burger Records, who recently responded with a restructuring plan after a series of indictments against bands associated with the label and employees.
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