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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley alleges he was groomed by former manager

Deryck Whibley performing with Sum 41 in September.
Deryck Whibley performing with Sum 41 in September. Photograph: Amy Harris/Invision/AP

Deryck Whibley, singer and songwriter with platinum-selling Canadian punk-pop band Sum 41, has alleged that he was groomed and sexually abused by the band’s first manager.

In his new memoir Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell, and first reported by the Los Angeles Times, Whibley alleges that Greig Nori pressured him into sexual encounters over a period of four years.

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