AceShowbiz – SWMRS’ Joey Armstrong has referred to the accusations of sexual harassment against Lydia Night. Billie Joe Armstong, the drummer’s son of Green Day, released a post on the SWMRS Instagram account on Tuesday, July 21, to deny his former claims. A companion of a pal of a girlfriend’s
“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 do not agree with some 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.”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.”
“I respect her immensely,” Joey said, noting 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 apologized to Lydia “privately” and hopes “she can forgive me, if and when she is ready to do so.” He ended the letter, “I own my mistakes and will work hard to regain the trust that I lost.”
After SWMRS issued a statement regarding allegations made against Mikey Carnevale of The Frights and Zoe Lambert of No Parents, Lydia, who is the frontwoman of the U.S. indie rock bank The Regrettes, came out on Monday with the charges against Joey. When she was only 16 years old, and he was 22, she described her own dating experience with Joey. When she was only 16 years old and he was 22, she described her own romantic history with Joey. Calling their support of the alleged victims “unbelievably hypocritical” and “complete bulls**t,” she explained her own experience of dating Joey when she was only 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.”
