{"id":68743,"date":"2025-07-17T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68743\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:27:08","slug":"perry-farrell-responds-to-janes-addiction-bandmates-with-lawsuit-of-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68743\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Farrell Responds to Jane\u2019s Addiction Bandmates With Lawsuit of His Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, it was reported that guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins had sued<\/a> their former Jane\u2019s Addiction<\/a> bandmate Perry Farrell<\/a> for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. Their complaint centers on the band\u2019s ill-fated show in Boston<\/a> that featured an onstage fight between Navarro and Farrell and led to the group\u2019s apparent dissolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Farrell has now responded by suing Navarro, Avery, and Perkins. He alleges assault and battery, intentional and negligent inflection of emotional distress, and breach of contract. Farrell filed his lawsuit today (July 16) in Los Angeles County Superior Court. His wife, Etty Lau Farrell, and Jane\u2019s Addiction\u2019s touring company, Wilton\u2019s Hilton Inc., are his co-plaintiffs.<\/p>\n

In the complaint, obtained by Pitchfork, Farrell and his lawyers allege that Navarro, Avery, and Perkins engaged in \u201ca years-long bullying campaign against Farrell involving harassing him onstage during performances, including, among other tactics, trying to undermine him by playing their instruments at a high volume so that he could not hear himself sing without blasting his own in-ear monitors at an unsafe level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specifically, he claims that he \u201creached his breaking point\u201d on Friday, September 13, 2024, the night of the Boston show. \u201cFarrell became angry that Navarro, playing at top volume, was bullying him yet again and callously refused to lower his volume despite his repeated requests,\u201d the complaint reads. \u201cAs a result of Navarro\u2019s loud playing, which was excruciating and dangerous to Farrell, during the song \u2018Ocean Size,\u2019 Farrell reacted by body-checking Navarro. Farrell did not throw any punches, but simply wanted to alert Navarro that he had to stop playing so loud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farrell claims that his physical action led to \u201can inappropriate violent escalation by Navarro and Avery that was disproportionate to Farrell\u2019s minor body check of Navarro,\u201d and that Navarro also \u201cmenacingly charged at and aggressively assaulted both Farrell and his wife Etty Lau backstage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with the allegations of assault and battery, Farrell claims that Navarro, Avery, and Perkins canceled the Jane\u2019s Addiction reunion tour<\/a> without consulting him, leaving him \u201cblindsided\u201d by what he calls \u201cill-conceived decisions utterly lacking in legal authority.\u201d He also says that he \u201cwas ready, willing and able to continue the tour, if for no other reason than to avoid disappointing the legions of devoted fans who had purchased tickets to see the band on the tour\u2019s remaining dates, and it was Defendants [Navarro, Avery, and Perkins] who elected to cancel the tour without informing and\/or even hearing from Perry Farrell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry and Etty Lau Farrell are seeking \u201cgeneral damages for physical injury due to assault and battery, severe emotional distress and mental suffering;\u201d \u201cmedical and related expenses;\u201d and more.<\/p>\n

In a statement shared with Pitchfork, Perry Farrell\u2019s attorneys, Bryan J. Freedman and Miles M. Cooley, said that their client \u201cis actively exploring ways to address the situation and ensure accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitchfork has reached out to Christopher Frost, an attorney representing Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins in their lawsuit against Perry Farrell, for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, it was reported that guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins had sued…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,4630,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-68743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-legal","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}