Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley is challenging his former manager Greig Nori to meet him in court to settle the veracity of Whibley's allegations that he was sexually abused by his mentor as a teenager.
In his recently published autobiography Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell, Whibley writes that he was groomed and sexually abused by Nori, Sum 41's first manager, who fronts Ontario punk quartet Treble Charger
The Canadian pop-punk band began working with Nori in the mid-'90s when Whibley was 16 ,and Nori was 34. The older man receives songwriting credits alongside Whibley on four songs on Half Hour of Power, Sum 41's debut EP.
In his memoir, as reported in The LA Times, Whibley writes that when he was 18, and at a rave, Nori invited him into a toilet stall to take ecstasy, and “passionately” kissed him. In the weeks and months that followed, Whibley says he was pressured into engaging in sexual acts. with the older musician, and that when he sought to end what he saw as an abusive relationship, Nori accused him of being homophobic and suggested that Whibley “owed” him for the guidance and assistance Nori was giving Sum 41.
