Sum 41‘s Deryck Whibley has claimed that he, along with Paris Hilton, Scott Weiland and Pennywise drummer Byron McMackin, once pretended to have an orgy in order to escape a police drug bust.
Earlier this week (October 8), Whibley released his memoir Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell, in which he shares candid moments from his career as frontman of the punk band, who will disband after concluding their ongoing Tour of the Setting Sum world tour in January 2025.
Jezebel reported yesterday (October 10) on a portion of the book where Whibley recounts an incident involving himself with Hilton, Weiland, and McMackin in a party at an “old” and “out-of-work” producer’s house.
He shares that Hilton pulled out cocaine that was the “purest, most amazing blow” he’d ever had. “It wasn’t edgy, it wasn’t speedy, I didn’t feel my heart racing at all,” he wrote. “I just felt fucking incredible.” The group were hanging out until someone had “burst through the door, yelling ‘The cops are here busting people for drugs!'”
He recalls “jumping up to flush the drugs or hide or something”, while Hilton had been “calmly” clearing the “mountain of coke into her bag” while Weiland sat “completely unfazed”.
“That’s when I came up with what I thought was a brilliant plan. ‘All four of us should jump in the bed, get under the covers, and pretend like we’re having an orgy, so when the cops come in they’ll think we’re gross sex freaks and leave us alone!’ I said. Everyone – they were also high – thought it was a perfect plan,” he writes, adding that the four “jumped in bed” with a “really stoned” Weiland “undoing his pants”, thinking they were actually going to do it.
“After about fifteen minutes of our pretend orgy, we heard music playing and people talking,” he continues. “Someone had just panicked when the cops showed up for a noise complaint, and we were safe.”
Elsewhere in the memoir, Whibley shared a more grim recount of his past, accusing former Sum 41 manager Greig Nori, who is also the frontman for fellow pop-punk group Treble Charger, of grooming him, as well as sexually and verbally abusing him for years.
Speaking to The Globe And Mail, Nori said that he had not seen the book or heard the allegations and added: “These are false allegations”. Nori also said that he had retained a defamation lawyer.
An instance of alleged abuse detailed in the book reportedly took place when Whibley was 18, and Nori allegedly grabbed his face and “passionately” kissed him while they were doing ecstasy in the bathroom of a rave. Whibley alleged that he was surprised by the move as he hadn’t thought of Nori like that prior. He also claimed that from there, Nori persuaded him into exploring what they had, saying: “Most people are bisexual; they’re just too afraid to admit it.”
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