It took her three years to leave Armstrong, and when she did, the aftermath was brutal. When I turned 18, I got that money and got the fuck outta there." Once they'd settled in LA, Armstrong – a patriarch on the LA punk scene – established control over Dalle's fledgling music career, dictating who she worked with and which label the Distillers signed to – ensuring everything stayed in "the family". "I'd gone through a couple of court cases when I was 14, 15 years old, and I'd been compensated for one of them. "I moved to America with money I got from the government of Australia for being sexually abused," she says.
The truth, says Dalle, was that she paid her own way. The story pushed by Armstrong's camp five years later, following the divorce, was that Dalle had used Armstrong. Dalle was 18 years old to Armstrong's 32, and leaving behind a turbulent, dysfunctional childhood in Melbourne for a new life in LA. The pair had met when the veteran Cali punks played Australia's Somersault Festival, sharing the bill with Dalle's all-girl teen punk band, Sourpuss. The same year Coral Fang dropped, Dalle was liberating herself from a turbulent marriage to her first husband, Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong. But ultimately, Dalle says, she saved herself.ĭalle is a survivor in more ways than one. "I quit everything: booze, coffee, cigarettes." Raising Camille grounded her after years of feeling "unanchored, out of my body". She'd quit meth two months earlier, and the pregnancy galvanised her resolve. How has she managed to stay clean? "I got pregnant," she says pragmatically, "with my daughter, Camille." The Distillers had broken up, Dalle's husband, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, was away on tour and Dalle was staying at her mother-in-law's when she discovered the news. Yet here is Dalle with a new album to talk about, 10 years on – a clear-eyed, fair-skinned picture of health, all platinum hair and chunky silver rings – stretched across a sofa at the Ace Hotel in east London.
I wanted to blow my fucking head off." Mortality rates for meth addicts are woeful. They were also on the eve of implosion, and unknown to her fans, Dalle was battling a crystal meth addiction. Don't be mad, just be gone.The last time the Guardian sat down with Brody Dalle, in 2004, her band, LA punks the Distillers, had released their third – and what would be last – album, Coral Fang.
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Homme continued to say that: "There was Tim saying anything he could say and pretty much now it's established that fake English accent-singing f**king copycat motherf**ker is full of s**t. But not saying anything became the only thing that had any truth to it. Go ahead.' I didn't steal anybody's anything. They were saying, 'We're gonna kill you.' And I was saying, 'I'm six-foot-five and I have red hair and I'm not hiding. He explained: "I got all kinds of threats. Homme remains with Dalle, and decided that the best response would be to stay silent in order to disprove the rumours. Related: Check Out Brody Dalle's 'Rat Race' Homme reportedly received multiple death-threats from various Rancid fans in response to Armstrong accusing him of 'stealing' Dalle from him. This came after Armstrong publically attacking Homme for dating his ex-girlfriend, Brody Dalle. Josh Homme, frontman of Queens Of The Stone Age, has spoken out against Tim Armstrong, singer from Rancid.
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