It's been a busy week for Deryck Whibley. After telling in his memoir Walking Disaster that Greig Nori, former manager of Sum 41, had lured him by sexually abusing him (here to find out more), the band's frontman was forced to return to the topic to deny Nori's response according to which it would have been Whibley, at the time of the sixteen-year-old meeting (the manager was already 30), to have “started” their relationship.
“I took no pleasure in revealing the truth about what happened between me and my former manager, but it was something I could no longer keep inside,” Whibley said in yesterday's Instagram video about the accusation contained in his new memoir, Walking Disaster. «I learned that Greig Nori called me a liar. I'll tell you right away that I stand by every word in my book, 100%. I'm not a liar.”
Whibley's video was a response to Nori's statements on the Toronto Star last week. The former manager states: «The accusation of having started the relationship is false. I didn't start it. It was Whibley who started it, aggressively too.” Nori did not directly address the allegations of abuse or grooming made by Whibley.
In his video, Whibley continued to address Nori directly, inviting her to sue him if what was stated in the memoir was false. “Greig Nori, if you think I'm a liar, there's only one way to resolve this,” Whibley said. «Under oath, before a judge, before a jury. When you want. I'm ready.”
Asked by Rolling Stone USNori declined to comment.
Translation from Rolling Stone US.