Mariano Regidor
Deryck Whibley, the frontman for the Canadian rock group Sum 41, is speaking out against a former manager and alleging sexual and verbal abuse.
Whibley, 44, makes the claims in his upcoming memoir, Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell. In it, the singer says Greig Nori began being inappropriate and grooming the singer when he was only 16. Nori, a fellow musician, was 34 at the time.
“Greig had one requirement to be our manager—he wanted total control,” an excerpt of the memoir published in the Los Angeles Times reads. “We couldn’t talk to anyone but him, because the music business is ‘full of snakes and liars’ and he was the only person we could trust.”
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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