AceShowbiz – Joey Armstrong of SWMRS has reacted to the sexual assault allegations against Lydia Night. On Tuesday, July 21, Billie Joe Armstong, the drummer son of Green Day, released a post on the Instagram account of SWMRS to deny his former claims. A partner of a girlfriend’s mate
“Hey everyone, I want to address Lydia’s Instagram post about our relationship,” opened his statement with Joey, who was born Joseph Marciano Armstrong. “While I don’t agree with some of the things she said about me, it’s important that she be allowed to say them and that she be supported for speaking out.”While I do not agree with any of the things she said about me, it is important that she be permitted to say them and that she be encouraged to speak out.
“I respect her immensely,” Joey said, adding that “I failed her as a partner.” He said, “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.”
The 25-year-old said he apologised “privately” to Lydia and hopes “she can forgive me, if and when she is ready to do so.” He concluded the message, “I own my mistakes and will work hard to regain the trust that I lost.”
Lydia, who is the frontwoman of the U.S. indie rock bank The Regrettes, came out with the charges against Joey on Monday, after SWMRS issued a statement regarding allegations made against Mikey Carnevale of The Frights and Zoe Lambert of No Parents. She described her own dating encounter with Joey when she was just 16 years old, and he was 22. She explained her own experience of dating Joey when she was just 16 years old and he was 22. Finding their support of the supposed victims “unbelievably hypocritical” and “complete bulls**t,” she described her own history of dating Joey when she was just 16 years old and he was 22.
“From the beginning, he would constantly make ‘jokes’ on tour about how we would have to follow his rules on tour because he was the headliner,” she claimed. “For so long I viewed it just as being toxic and not something valid enough to share but now I know that what I actually experienced was emotional abuse and sexual coercion by someone in a position of power over me.”
“It’s important to me that Joey and his entire band are held accountable to fully understand that even though they may view themselves as ‘good guys’ they are continuing to perpetuate the exact toxic culture they are trying to call out,”