So, we're now about a week short of the one year anniversary of "the incident." You know, the one where Till Lindemann of Rammstein got sexual assault allegations against him that put a storm cloud over last year's Rammstein tour. Accusations swirled around the band for months, only for things to start to lighten up after the tour, with there being no evidence that Till did anything illegal or shady. So he's basically been legally innocent since around last September or so.
Last week, they finally started their 2024 tour. Things are more upbeat, the accusations seem to be a thing of the past, "Pussy" is back on the playlist in all of its NSFW glory (that seemed to get removed for cancel culture type reasons), and things seem back to normal.
But then today, the lawyers representing Till and Rammstein released a new report stating that it was likely that Shelby's (the accuser's) erratic behavior and strange symptoms were likely due to her mixing alcohol with THC, ie, the chemical found in weed that makes people high.
In effect, she kind of kept this hidden. I know she took a drug test and some have claimed that in the picture she tested positive for something that wasn't date rape drugs, but no one knew what it was, and apparently it was that. And apparently mixing alcohol with weed can make the effects of both worse. Weed basically suppresses the part of your brain that recognizes it's drunk so you drink more, and alcohol intensifies THC's effects. In the hotel that night, she likely had what was known as a "green out", which is basically a weed induced blackout.
That would explain why she reacted so badly to the drinks she had, while others who drank from the same bottles did not experience her symptoms at all. For a while, people were wondering if maybe her depression medication, lexapro, was responsible. Apparently taking lexapro does intensify the effects of alcohol too, but at the same time it's possible she also skipped some doses so she could drink, and people wondered if she was experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
We don't know. All we know is there's absolutely no evidence that anyone did anything to her, and whatever her condition was, she was responsible for it herself. There's no reason to assume that she was ever drugged, and there's no evidence that till did anything to her.
I'm kind of glad this came out now, given the kick off of this new year's tour, because it seems to really just, put that final nail in the coffin where we can move on for good and forget this nightmare ever happened.
And after this, I never want to be asked why I don't just automatically "believe all women" ever again. While I get the sentiment behind the idea, in reality, it should be innocent until proven guilty, and sometimes accusers are just wrong, either because they're explicitly lying for attention, or because they brought whatever conditions they were in on themselves, and it's not actually "victim blaming" to say that. Sorry, not sorry. Let this serve as a cautionary tale against the idea.
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