Brand New's Jesse Lacey shares statement on sexual misconduct allegations
While Hollywood is going through a very public reckoning regarding sexual abuse and harassment, the movement to expose abusers has begun to take hold in other mediums as well. Just this weekend, DC Comics suspended a longtime editor over sexual harassment allegations, and on Friday a woman named Nicole Elizabeth Garey came forward with allegations that Brand New frontman Jesse Lacey solicited naked photos from her when she was just 15 and he was 24. Uproxx reports that she says Lacey also had her watch him masturbate over Skype, and a former guitar tech for Brand New suggested that Lacey had a reputation for sexual misconduct like that.