Linkin Park's Singer Emily Armstrong Addresses Danny Masterson Support

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Emily Armstrong is walking backmost her erstwhile support.

The recently-announced pb vocalist of Linkin Park addressed her anterior enactment of Danny Masterson during the preliminary hearings up of the That 70s Show alum’s 2020 rape trial. 

“Hi, I’m Emily,” she wrote connected societal media Sept. 6, per Billboard. “I’m caller to truthful galore of you, and I wanted to wide the aerial astir thing that happened a portion back. Several years ago, I was asked to enactment idiosyncratic I considered a person astatine a tribunal appearance, and went to 1 aboriginal proceeding arsenic an observer. Soon after, I realized I shouldn’t have.”

She continued, “I ever effort to spot the bully successful people, and I misjudged him. I person ne'er spoken with him since. Unimaginable details emerged and helium was aboriginal recovered guilty. To accidental it arsenic intelligibly arsenic possible: I bash not condone maltreatment oregon unit against women, and I empathize with the victims of these crimes.”

Armstrong’s mentation comes aft Linkin Park, which went connected hiatus erstwhile lead vocalist Chester Benington died successful 2017, announced it would beryllium returning with a caller vocalist. Upon learning it was Armstrong who would beryllium touring with the group, galore online spoke out. Chief among the critics was Mars Volta vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and his wife Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, the second of whom has self-identified arsenic 1 of the women to impeach Masterson of intersexual assault.

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Bixler-Zavala recirculated screenshots of comments helium wrote connected Armstrong’s erstwhile set Dead Sara’s Instagram leafage past year, successful which besides called retired Armstrong’s alleged ties to the Church of Scientology, which Masterson is simply a subordinate of. (Both Bixler-Zavala and his woman besides erstwhile belonged to the church. The mates person alleged the religion harassed them pursuing their allegations against Masterson.)

“Do your fans cognize astir your person Danny Masterson? Your rapist friend,” Bixler-Zavala wrote successful the comment, per Billboard. “Remember however your chap scientologist goon squad surrounded 1 of the Jane Doe’s erstwhile she was trying to permission the elevators?”

E! News has reached retired to the Church of Scientology for remark arsenic good arsenic reps for Linkin Park but has not yet heard back.

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In Sept. 2023, Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to beingness successful prison aft being recovered blameworthy of raping 2 women betwixt 2001 and 2003 astatine his Hollywood Hills home, with the assemblage incapable to scope a verdict connected a 3rd number alleging helium raped a erstwhile girlfriend, per NBC News.

After the sentencing, Shawn Holley, 1 of Masterson's attorneys, said successful a connection to E! News that "a squad of the apical appellate lawyers successful the state has been reviewing the transcripts of the trial" and "have identified a fig of important evidentiary and law issues which they volition code successful briefs to some authorities and national appellate courts."

Holley said that Masterson "did not perpetrate the crimes for which helium has been convicted and we—and the appellate lawyers—the champion and the brightest successful the country—are assured that these convictions volition beryllium overturned."

But Armstrong is not the lone personage to backtrack aft erstwhile supporting Masterson.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis—who starred successful That 70s Show alongside Masterson—were among those who wrote quality letters to a justice aft Masterson’s condemnation and up of his sentencing.

But amid a consequent online tempest of backlash aft their letters were made public, the now-married mates apologized for their actions. They clarified Masterson’s household reached retired to them and asked them to "write quality letters to correspond the idiosyncratic that we knew for 25 years truthful that the justice could instrumentality that into afloat consideration, comparative to the sentencing."

"We are alert of the symptom that has been caused by the quality letters that we wrote connected behalf of Danny Masterson," Kutcher said successful the clip, portion Kunis, sitting beside him, past added, "We enactment victims. We person done this historically done our enactment and volition proceed to bash truthful successful the future."

Kunis continued, "Our bosom goes retired to each azygous idiosyncratic who's ever been a unfortunate of intersexual assault, intersexual maltreatment oregon rape," past stopped the recording.

For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.

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