Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Accuses Former Manager of Sexual Abuse
variety.comThania Garcia Deryck Whibley has accused Sum 41‘s first and former manager of emotional and verbal abuse. According to claims outlined in Whibley’s new memoir, “Walking Disaster, My Life Through Heaven and Hell,” the frontman was groomed and sexually and verbally abused by Greig Nori during the first stages of Sum 41’s career.
Whibley alleges the abuse started when he was 16 and Nori was 34. Sum 41 and Nori began collaborating together with Nori (also a frontman for Canadian punk band Treble Charger) as a co-writer and co-producer.
He later joined as an official manager of the band. “Greig had one requirement to be our manager — he wanted total control,” Whibley writes in the memoir, per a Los Angeles Times report. “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.” Whibley relays the first instances where he and Nori spent time alone together, with Whibley alleging that the Nori was the first person to serve him alcohol.
He writes, Nori once asked him to come to follow him to a bathroom to do ecstasy, whilst in the bathroom, Nori allegedly grabbed Whibley’s face and “passionately” kissed him without consent.
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