Perry Farrell’s wife Etty Lau explains fight with Dave Navarro at Jane’s Addiction show: “Frustration had been mounting”

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Perry Farrell‘s wife Etty Lau has released a statement addressing her husband’s tussle with guitarist Dave Navarro onstage during a Jane’s Addiction concert in Boston.Today (September 14), Lau shared a clip of the moment on Instagram with her statement. “Rather than speculating, I thought to post a first person account of what happened on stage,” she begins.She acknowledged that “there had been a lot of tension and animosity between the members”, which is “the magic that made the band so dynamic.”“Well, the dynamite was lit,” she wrote. “Perry got up in Dave’s face and body checked him.”She attributes Perry’s behaviour to his enduring “tinnitus and a sore throat every night”. “Perry’s frustration had been mounting, night after night, he felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band,” she continued.“When the audience in the first row, [they] started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it.”Lau claims that, upon the band beginning ‘Ocean Size’, Perry struggled to hear through the sound mix. “He wasn’t singing, he was screaming just be to be heard,” she writes.The statement takes a more candid turn, with Lau declaring it was bassist Eric Avery that “won the fight”.

She alleges Avery “walked up to Perry, upstage, in the dark, behind [guitar technician] Dan [Cleary], put Perry in a headlock and punched him in the stomach three times.” Other accounts to date have stated that Avery acted to restrain Perry.

NME has reached out to the band’s representatives for a comment.A post shared by Etty Lau Farrell (@ettylaufarrell)“Dave still looked handsome and cool in the middle of a fight.