An instrument singer says that the rape charge against him is false | TV and show

On Saturday, a Twitter user created a profile on the social network to tell a story accusing the musician Maynard James Keenan Leader and Singer of Tool and A perfect circle to have raped her when she was 17 years old. This is how the young woman registered the account " Iwas17Hewas36 " (she was 17, 36 years old) to write her story in several tweets that quickly drew attention to the platform

. half because "he tried to tell him about his real account and I could not name him (Maynard) out of fear." It is thus that the user locates his story in the year 2000, when A Perfect Circle was touring with the group Nine Inch Nails in his city.

The Woman Tells During the concert, she and her boyfriend were in the front row and Maynard watched her throughout the show and even threw a bottle of water in her direction. "We thought it was awesome" he said and told that a group badistant had approached after the show to invite him to meet A perfect circle but "Maynard was sitting at a picnic table and staring at me," he writes, adding that after asking the singer to sign his hand, his plan was to return to his boyfriend, but that did not happen like that. "He asked me what age I had." I said: "I'm 17 years old." Then he said, "I can not not talk to you here, let's see a movie "and he took me on a bus" he explained.

Maynard sat on a picnic table and stared at me. NIN had not pbaded yet so I thought I had plenty of time to get an autograph and go back to the show and my boyfriend. I did not have any paper, so I asked Maynard to sign my hand. /

– Iwas17HeWas36 (@ IWas17HeWas36) June 23, 2018

They both sat on a bed at the back of the vehicle and Maynard closed the door. "17-year-olds can be naïve, which is why older men are looking for teenagers," he said. The woman said that at that moment the artist began to stroke her and then to take off her pants. "I could not move," she said.

"I was paralyzed, so I had to drop my body, he took off my pants, he forced me in, there was no no previous act.I mention this because it was not bad.It tried to rape me as fast as possible " denounced and explained that the singer n & # 39; He used no condoms and was fast and sharp. The anonymous pointed out that there were no drugs or seduction attempts and that the singer had infected the human papillomavirus.

Finally, he explained that he was coming back with his boyfriend and did not talk about it to anyone … Until today, he explained, the "Me" campaigns Also "and" Time's Up "motivated her to tell her truth and to motivate other women to denounce the musicians who abused them.

Maynard's response

complaint, Maynard himself refers to the serious charges. The artist, who was then 36, categorically denied the episode denounced and accused the woman of abusing these campaigns.

"Thank you very much to those who saw through this despicable false report.This only harms the #MeToo movement.I'm ashamed for those who shared this clickbait. answer (not required), that's because I had turned off the phone " he wrote on his Twitter

Thank you very much to those of you who have seen through this false claim despicable the movement #metoo . And shame on those of you who perpetuate this destructive clickbait. As for my late but not required response, I turned off my phone. You should try it.

– Maynard J Keenan (@mjkeenan) June 28, 2018

The message from the tool manager has exceeded the 4,700 "I like". At the same time, the anonymous complainant chose to share the testimonies of people who had experienced the same thing that would have affected her. Your identity has not been revealed yet.