Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan has responded to a rape allegation levelled against him earlier this week, from an anonymous woman who claims she was 17 at the time.
“Many thanks to those of you who saw right through this despicable false claim that only does damage to the #metoo movement,” Keenan wrote on Twitter.
“And shame on those of you who perpetuate this destructive clickbait. As for my delayed but un-required response, I had my phone off. You should try it.”
Many thanks to those of you who saw right through this despicable false claim that only does damage to the #metoo movement. And shame on those of you who perpetuate this destructive clickbait. As for my delayed but un-required response, I had my phone off. You should try it.
— Maynard J Keenan (@mjkeenan) 28 June 2018
Keenan was accused by Twitter user ‘IWas17HeWas36’ — who has chosen to remain anonymous — of raping her backstage during an A Perfect Circle Tour in the year 2000.
“He lead me to a bed in the back on the bus and closed the door,” wrote the account holder. “He put on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I decided to watch a few minutes and at least have a weird story to tell my boyfriend later. Yes, 17 year olds can be naïve. This is why older men target teenage girls.
“He started rubbing my neck. At this point, I fell silent. He talked about the film, Johnny Depp, and Hunter S. Thompson while he started taking his pants off. All I could do was sit there, looking at the movie, unable to move.
“I froze so he had to move my body into a missionary position. He pulled off my cargo pants. He forced himself in- there was no attempt at “warming up”. I mention this because this wasn’t about sex. This was about raping me as fast as he could.”
You can read the account in full below.
Deep breath. I have to anonymously tell this story because I tried to tell it from my real account and couldn’t name him directly out of fear, so I deleted the tweets. Here goes: I was 17 and he was 36. 1/
— Iwas17HeWas36 (@IWas17HeWas36) 23 June 2018
