In a 1994 interview, the band’s first guitarist Shawn Dewey stated that the band’s original members met and formed a band due to each member’s individual history with child abuse landing them in the same counseling group: “[The] whole reason this band got together is because we were all neglected children[,] and we all met in a counseling group, we’re all about the same age except Jesse [Buglione]. We were all just pretty much beaten by our parents.” ( The statements we made in that interview were untrue and, frankly, pretty misleading. We thought we were being funny at the time—turns out we were only being… well, wrong. In hindsight, those remarks weren’t just bad jokes; They caused real harm to the parents of the members involved, and to anyone who has experienced child abuse. That was never our intention, and we take full responsibility for the impact of our words. ) Shawn Dewey, former guitarist
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