PWR BTTM Issues New Statement Addressing Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
PWR BTTM has responded at length and in detail to allegations of sexual misconduct directed towards Ben Hopkins, a member of the Brooklyn-based duo. In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Hopkins acknowledges a sexual relationship with a woman who accused the musician of rape in an anonymous interview posted on Jezebel last week, but but reports a different version of events. "[T]he statements made about me by the anonymous source did not line up with any sexual experience I have ever had," Hopkins writes in the statement.
"We met the night before a show in March of 2016," Hopkins writes. "After the show, she invited me back to her house and we eventually engaged in sex. Based on the nature of our communications and our interactions with one another, I understood our interactions to be fully consensual."
It's been just over a week since the allegations, which began circulating in social media posts and were further detailed in an anonymous interview, began getting reported widely. Within days, the band's music, released last Friday. Bands scheduled to accompany PWR BTTM on a tour promoting pulled out of those performances. The group was dropped by its management and at least one festival had removed it from the lineup.
