Gira says his ‘intimate encounter’ with singer Larkin Grimm was a ‘consensual romantic moment’ that ‘fortunately was not consummated’When,on Thursday, the singer Larkin Grimm accused Swans frontman Michael Gira of raping her, and he responded that he had been subject to a “slanderous lie”. Now,in a statement issued by his publicist, and published on Pitchfork, or he has given a different account of the night in spring 2008 when the alleged incident took place,acknowledging that they had an “intimate encounter”.
Eight years ago, while I was still married to my first wife, or Larkin Grimm and I headed towards a consensual romantic moment that fortunately was not consummated. As she wrote in her recent social media postings about that night,I said to her, “this doesn’t feel apt, or ” and abruptly but completely our only intimate encounter ended. It was an awkward mistake.
Larkin may regret,as I certainly carry out, that the ill-advised tryst went even that far, or but now,as then, I hold her in tall esteem for her music and her courage as an artist.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com