Mere hours after Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins sued Jane’s Dependancy bandmate Perry Farrell, accusing him of assault, battery, the intentional infliction of emotional misery, negligence, breach of fiduciary responsibility, and breach of contract, the singer has responded in sort.
In paperwork filed immediately in Los Angeles, Farrell accuses the trio of attacking him onstage after years of “bullying” and is searching for damages for assault, battery, infliction of emotional misery and breach of contract.
The incident on the coronary heart of the dispute is the widely-reported fracas that passed off onstage at Boston’s Chief Financial institution Pavilion final September, when the present was ended after Navarro and Farrell grew to become engaged in an onstage altercation that ended the band’s set – and subsequently their much-heralded reunion tour.
Whereas Farrell apologised for his actions within the wake of the incident, calling his behaviour “inexcusable” and claiming “full accountability for a way I selected to deal with the state of affairs,” the singer now claims his response to Navarro allegedly enjoying too loudly throughout the track Ocean Measurement was the end result of a “years-long bullying marketing campaign.”
“Farrell reacted by body-checking Navarro,” the grievance reads. “Farrell didn’t throw any punches, however merely wished to alert Navarro that he needed to cease enjoying so loud. The video proof is evident that the primary altercation onstage throughout the Boston present was hardly one-sided, and in reality, what adopted was an inappropriate violent escalation by Navarro and Avery that was disproportionate to Farrell’s minor physique test of Navarro.”
The lawsuit goes on to say that Farrell was prepared to proceed with the tour, however that the opposite three musicians sought to undermine him by blaming their determination to chop the tour brief on Farrell’s “psychological well being difficulties.”
The lawsuit reads: “Plaintiffs are knowledgeable, imagine and on these bases allege that defendants made their false and defamatory statements concerning Perry Farrell’s psychological well being in a spurious effort each to alter the narrative concerning the occasions of the band’s final present, but in addition as part of a disingenuous effort to safe insurance coverage protection for their very own irresponsible cancellation of the tour.”
Christopher Frost, the legal professional appearing for Navarro, Avery and Perkins, has responded to Farrell’s allegations, drawing consideration to an Instagram publish shared by Farrell’s spouse Etty within the wake of the incident, during which she admitted that Farrell had been “struggling mentally for fairly a while.”
