Ben Moody leaves band

On October 22, 2003, Moody left the band during the European tour for Fallen , reportedly because of creative differences. Moody had called their management and informed them he was quitting. Lee got a call from their manager asking her to “beg [Moody] to stay”, to which she said “that’s exactly what he wants me to do” and expressed that if Moody was going to leave, the band “would appreciate it if he’d wait until the end of the tour. But if he can’t, then go ahead and go.” With his impromptu exit in the middle of tour, Lee improvised and had them play as a foursome to not cancel a show. In an interview, Lee said, “we’d gotten to a point that if something didn’t change, we wouldn’t have been able to make a second record.” She said that by that point Moody “hated the band, he hated being on tour and his negativity made everyone around him miserable. He was trying to pull the whole ship down with him” and she would not let that happen. His exit was a relief because of tensions created within the band, which was at a “breaking point”. “It was a really uncomfortable situation for everybody … completely unstable and unhappy”, she explained. “It was a scary time before he left because I knew something was going to happen and I didn’t know what and I was afraid everything we worked for had the potential of going down the toilet.”