Again in August, 4 individuals got here ahead to accuse Win Butler of sexual misconduct, and now a fifth is sharing a brand new allegation towards the Arcade Hearth frontman.
In a report in Pitchfork, the nameless lady shared textual content message between herself and Butler over the course of their three-year sexual relationship, which she is now characterizing as manipulative and abusive.
In response to the lady — who’s recognized by the pseudonym Sabina — she met Butler when she was working as a waitress in Montreal again in 2015, when she was 22 and he was 35.
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At first, they engaged in conversations about artwork and literature, however their relationship quickly grew to become sexual. “I don’t need to speak an excessive amount of concerning the intercourse itself as a result of there have been so many cases of it,” Sabina advised Pitchfork. “Basically, it was an abusive dynamic. It was actually aggressive and I felt like I simply needed to do what he mentioned. I used to be not likely snug with a number of the issues he was asking me to do, however doing them anyway. And that’s finally dehumanizing.”
Whereas she believes Butler would describe their sexual relations as consensual, Sabina’s emotions are extra complicated.
“It was simply being accessible for intercourse in any kind, whether or not that was in particular person when he was on the town, whether or not it was images, and to have interaction in sexting when he wished it to occur,” she mentioned. “There was an urgency to his wants that didn’t account for my wants or what was occurring in my life or my scenario or my whereabouts. When he wished intercourse, it was anticipated that I might be up and prepared for it, as a result of it was so good of him to find time for it or one thing.”
In the end, she added, “the one worth I ever held for him was performing sexual acts at any time when he wished.”
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Butler responded to the earlier allegations in a prolonged assertion confessing to partaking in “consensual relationships exterior of [his] marriage” to spouse and bandmate Régine Chassagne.
“I like Régine with all of my coronary heart,” Butler wrote in an announcement to Pitchfork.
“However at instances, it has been tough to steadiness being the daddy, husband, and bandmate that I need to be. In the present day I need to clear the air about my life, poor judgment, and errors I’ve made,” he continued.
“The vast majority of these relationships have been brief lived, and my spouse is conscious — our marriage has, previously, been extra unconventional than some,” he added.
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Butler went on to insist that he’s “by no means touched a girl towards her will, and any implication that I’ve is just false. I vehemently deny any suggestion that I compelled myself on a girl or demanded sexual favours. That merely, and unequivocally, by no means occurred.”
He provides that the “relationships have been all consensual” and that he’s “very sorry to anybody who I’ve damage with my behaviour. Life is full of super ache and error, and I by no means need to be a part of inflicting another person’s ache.”