Legal complications after Moody’s departure

In Lee’s termination letter to their manager, she stated that Moody was physically and verbally abusive to her. With Moody gone, “we felt like a weight had been lifted”, she said. Touring guitarist John LeCompt said in a 2006 interview that Lee “gained authority as soon as Ben Moody walked out the door. They had an equal partnership, but he was the man, he had to strangle the band, all the life out of it”. Lee said that she and Moody had not been friends since their teenage years, and they had pretended to be friends after Fallen ‘ s release when they were really only business partners. In 2004, Lee confirmed that there were complications for months following Moody’s departure “with the legalities of everything – whether we would be legally allowed to continue under the same name”. “A lot of things were held up internally that I wasn’t allowed to talk about, and I was worried, because it was very important to me to be able to stand up and say, ‘No. One person leaving in the middle of a tour and trying to hurt us isn’t going to make us lose the entire band.’” In a 2006 interview, she stated that when Moody was in the band, “a lot of decisions had been made over my head, or around me, or for me, that I wouldn’t have made for myself”.