Cradle of Filthin sisäinen myrsky jatkuu – Dani Filth julkaisi uuden lausunnon, Zoë Marie Federoff ja Ashok vastasivat
Cradle of Filthin laulaja Dani Filth on julkaissut jälleen uuden lausunnon liittyen väitteisiin, joita yhtyeestä eronneet Zoë Marie Federoff ja Marek ”Ashok” Šmerda esittivät hiljattain. Federoff ja Ashok syyttivät bändin johtoa muun muassa riistosta ja epäeettisestä toimintaympäristöstä.
Filth vastasi ensimmäisen kerran 29. elokuuta ja julkaisi nyt uuden viestin, jossa hän kiisti syytökset, mutta myös pyysi anteeksi, että oli aiemmin mennyt liian henkilökohtaisuuksiin.
”Myönnän, että väsymys ja turhautuminen ajoivat minut viime lausunnossani jakamaan enemmän henkilökohtaisia yksityiskohtia kuin olisi ollut tarpeen. Pyydän sitä anteeksi. Totuus pysyy, mutta en aio enää kommentoida henkilökohtaisia asioita julkisuudessa”, Filth kirjoitti.
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Hän painotti myös, että väitteet ”varkaudesta” ja ”riistosta” ovat valheellisia ja että asia käsitellään virallisia reittejä pitkin, ei sosiaalisessa mediassa. Lisäksi Filth nosti esiin oman äitinsä vakavan sairauden ja toivoi, ettei perhettä vedettäisi mukaan kiistaan.
Federoff vastasi omassa lausunnossaan pitävänsä Filthin uutta viestiä ”positiivisena askeleena”, mutta kiisti edelleen hänen näkemyksensä tilanteesta:
”Emme lähteneet bändistä henkilökohtaisten asioiden vuoksi, vaan siksi että kuukausien yrityksistä huolimatta et kuunnellut huoliamme työoloista ja kohtelusta. Vastuu lankeaa lopulta sinulle. Toivomme, että opit johtajana ja alat kohdella muusikoita paremmin.”
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Myös Šmerda julkaisi oman vastauksensa, jossa hän kertoi yleensä olleensa hiljainen, mutta kokeneensa, että asioiden tuominen julkisuuteen oli viimeinen keino:
”Annoin sinulle 12 vuotta elämästäni ja soitin sydämestäni Cradle of Filthille. Silti meidät kohdeltiin kuin olisimme korvattavissa. Surullisinta on, että et vieläkään ota vastuuta. Toivon vain, että kohtelet bändissä edelleen soittavia veljiäni paremmin.”
Šmerda myös kommentoi Federoffin keskenmenoon liittyneitä Filthin vihjauksia, pitäen niitä loukkaavina ja valheellisina.
Tilanne yhtyeen ympärillä jatkuu yhä hyvin tulehtuneena, ja molemmat osapuolet ovat viitanneet siihen, että kiista tullaan mahdollisesti käsittelemään myös oikeudessa.
Zoë Marie Federoff julkaisi seuraavan päivityksen Dani Filthin viestiin liittyen:
”We’d like to issue a statement in response to the most recent one by Dani Filth. We consider it a positive step.
We know your mother is battling cancer and we wish her well in this. As I recall I’m one of the first people in the band that you told. I’ve been praying for her ever since, and I condemn anyone who tries to drag her into this.
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That said, we didn’t go public with personal issues we’ve had involving anyone’s day to day behavior. We strongly support anyone’s journey in sobriety. Our focus remains the business issues and the business environment. We dispute any claim that alcoholism or alcohol use led to this current situation. We maintain it was months of trying to talk to you, Dan, trying to get you to understand the plight of the people who work for you. Your silence and stonewalling became deafening. We left because every indication you gave instilled in us the impression that you didn’t care, and what’s worse, you did indeed allow management to mislead and lie to us. The responsibility for these things at the end of the day falls on you.
We are disappointed that you went for personal issues and speculation on our marriage, and we still have no plans to go for personal attacks on you. We want the best for you and your new family with Sofiya. We want you to get better as a leader, Dan. We want you to run the band better and treat people better. No one wants the end of Cradle of Filth as an artistic concept. It’s an institution of great creativity that gives people joy. We and others want the end of you letting bad deals hurt people. We tried to talk to you for months about all of this. It didn’t have to go this way. Take care of the people who write music for you and play shows for you.
We will probably and unfortunately see you next in court, but never doubt for a moment I can see the human being in you and the twinges of a conscience.
Peace be with you.”
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Marek ”Ashok” Šmerda puolestaan julkaisi seuraavan päivityksen Dani Filthin viestiin liittyen:
”To Dan after last post,
And I believe this will be end of public statements from my side and my wife’s as long as it is end from his side. I know this is grating everyone… me too, but private convos did not sort anything for months. Understand it was last resort to go public.
I am usually most silent person even when I am hurt, which is probably why it took 12 years to properly say all of this.
Here are my hands. The hands I used to serve you for 12 years. To write and play music for you. I gave you these hands.
Your mom is always great person to me and I wish her healing. Her heart is huge as far as I ever knew. However it feels low to me to use her right now as excuse when we all know she’s been sick since last year. Everyone has been there for you and supportive Dan. We all give so much love and support to her as soon as you tell us.
I lost my own mother to sudden medical tragedy and I never even said goodbye to her- there was no time. She never saw me on stage with Cradle. She haunts me every day. But her memory tells me to be better man and treat others better. I would never use her as excuse for hurting others.
But if you respect mothers, then why twist our tragedy of miscarriage into something that was not true of my wife- she never drink while pregnant. However her doctor told her the lack of sleep, irregular schedule, constant pressure of management threatening her job if she did anything they didn’t like… all of this more than likely contributed to her body rejecting pregnancy. She exhibits high signs of the stress she is under. It is true we cannot blame it all on you, but for you to assume she was drinking with the pregnancy was low, because we all know there is very little that is worse to accuse woman of than killing her own child.
I saw many times rest of the band would protest or argue with you and management, but only Zoe was singled out to be mocked and punished. Even now your ”fans” call her crazy but I can guarantee every man in the band has said same things she is saying. I am saying it too. There was never same respect for my wife there was for opinions of the men.
You once had my respect and full loyalty. Respect you lost while ago and loyalty you threw away not long ago. Even when I stopped respecting you, when it was obvious you did not care about us, I stayed loyal. Until… you respond to heartfelt plea to give us better chance for living with that sordid contract, which every session member knows you sent with instructions to sign as soon as possible. No one has a shitty contract just lying around to be sent by mistake.
To not take ownership even now for the many ways in which you screw us all, it is not surprising but it is still sad Dan… cuz again, even after years of being treated disposable I wrote my heart and soul into albums for you… because I love music and I love the joy of the fans. It is sad that you could not take responsibility for these issues in private, and now they are public, so we all are caught in giant storm. This is on you for not allowing anything to be handled privately. Just ignore, ignore, ignore everything we tried to tell you for long time.
I wish I could see a man when I look at you, Dan, but I don’t. I see excuses.
In time all will come to light as I do not believe we will be last to say something- although it is now obvious why 40 other ex members never did say much. It has been hell for us to speak up. But I do not regret it.
Treat my brothers still in the band better, if there is any honor left in you. They are damn good people and will always have my love and support. That is entire goal we have.”