Singer Feist Leaves Arcade Fire Tour Amid Win Butler's Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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Arcade Fire's  tour following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against the band's lead singer, Win Butler. The «1234» singer made the announcement in an open letter published on her website Thursday.Feist said that she will be departing from the European leg of the tour and made clear that she takes the allegations against Butler very seriously.Late last month, Butler denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.Feist began her statement, «To stay on tour would symbolize I was either defending or ignoring the harm caused by Win Butler and to leave would imply I was the judge and jury.»«I was never here to stand for or with Arcade Fire -- I was here to stand on my own two feet on a stage, a place I've grown to feel I belong, and I've earned as my own,» she continued. «I play for my band, my crew, their loved ones and all of our families, and the people who pay their hard-earned money to share space in the collective synergy that is a show.»Feist also noted that the situation is one that «touches each of our lives.» While she added that there's no «singular path to heal,» she said she plans to «navigate this» albeit imperfectly, she admitted.«We all have a story within a spectrum ranging from baseline toxic masculinity to pervasive misogyny to actually being physically, psychologically, emotionally or sexually assaulted,» Feist shared. «This situation touches each of our lives and speaks to us in a language unique to each of our processing.

There isn't a singular path to heal when you've endured any version of the above, nor a singular path to rehabilitate the perpetrators.

It can be a lonely road to make sense of ill-treatment.»Adding, «I can't solve that by quitting, and I can't solve it by staying.