Geordie Greep responds after woman and ex-bandmate share details of alleged sexual misconduct

Geordie Greep has responded to statements made by the woman accusing him of sexual assault and his now ex-bandmate. According to Greep, he "honestly did not realise" the woman was asleep and uninterested when he kissed her.

At Greep's Vancouver concert last week, someone passed out flyers accusing him of being a rapist. This led to walkouts and the cancellation of five of his upcoming performances. Greep said onstage that the incident of the previous night was "a complete misunderstanding" and that he was "not a rapist".

He played that night's set solo, claiming he didn't want to force his band to play under the circumstances. Keyboardist Cameron Campbell has since said that he quit the band that morning.

Campbell and the alleged victim, who used the pseudonym Laura, spoke to Paste magazine about what happened that night.

According to Laura, she and a friend met the musicians at a bar, and when it closed, the group moved to another friend's apartment.

Laura says she fell asleep on the couch and woke up to Greep kissing her "on my lips, trying to make out with me". Others in the apartment were woken by her screaming, including Campbell. Greep was then kicked out of the apartment, they both said.

According to a statement made by Laura, she "never wanted any of this to be made public", and the accusatory flyers were circulated at the concert "without [her] consent or knowledge".

"I don’t know his full intentions, and either way, his behaviour was disgusting. But he did not rape me, and I would never claim otherwise", her statement reads. "I don’t think that his assault should be diminished because of this. What he did was absolutely not okay, and should be taken seriously".

Campbell confirmed the account of how they met and what happened, though he admitted that he was not an eye witness to what Laura says Greep did. After being told to leave, Campbell says Greep lingered in the building's hallway.

"He tried to start downplaying it right there, saying that he only tried to give her a kiss on the cheek—which, again, if she’s asleep, that doesn’t really make it okay either way", Campbell said.

Greep has responded with his perspective of the events.

"I kissed her once and she immediately responded negatively and pushed me away", he wrote in a post on Instagram. "I apologised and stepped away. She was understandably upset and told me to leave. She told me she had been asleep, which to my great regret, I honestly did not realise."

"I'm not trying to minimise what happened in any way and, again, all I can say is how sorry I am", he concluded the message.

 

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