I know some people watching the online drama unfold have been discouraged by the lack of support I’ve received from my former bandmates. This was not an easy story for me to tell. It is the only thing I can do and I'm glad to do it.'įor her part, Fox released her own additional statement in the early hours of Monday morning, writing on Facebook, 'I have been so incredibly moved over the last few days by the outpouring of love and support that has followed the story of my rape on New Year’s Eve 1975. I will not allow anyone to throw me under the bus and accuse me of such a foul act. I will make public the questions, answers and results of that test. When I return from Sweden I will seek a qualified polygraph examiner to put to rest any and all allegations. There are so many excuses I could make being only one month into my sixteenth year at the time that people would understand but I am innocent. I have never been one to deny my mistakes in life and I wouldn't start now. 'Of looking into the dead yet pleading eyes of a girl, unable to move while she was brutally raped and doing nothing. 'I have been accused of a crime,' Currie added the following day. 'All I can say is if Joan, Sandy and I saw an unconscious girl being brutally raped in front of us, we would have hit him over the head with a chair,' she first said, referencing the late Runaways drummer Sandy West. Obviously Jackie's story is extremely upsetting and although we haven’t spoken in decades, I wish her peace and healing.'Ĭurrie, 55, was referenced in the original story as claiming that 'she spoke up and stormed out of the room,' and wrote multiple of her own Facebook posts. 'For a group of young teenagers thrust into 70s rock stardom there were relationships that were bizarre, but I was not aware of this incident. 'Anyone who truly knows me understands that if I was aware of a friend or bandmate being violated, I would not stand by while it happened,' Jett, 56, wrote on her official Facebook page.

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