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(Continued from previous post) I was also harassed on Twitter and called a "wh*re" for talking about how Ronnie Radke was a creep towards me and I'm glad I just kept blocking and ignoring him. These were male super fans of his harassing me. They accused me of sharing a private conversation (which I never did) while saying I was making it all up. They said Ronnie should sue me for slander for talking about it and saying it was creepy. Short recap on Ronnie: I knew of him when he was in Escape The Fate and hearing my friends stories about what a garbage person he is. I've never been a fan of him and always thought he was a dangerous person. In 2010 I started going to Steel Panther's weekly residency they had at House Of Blues on Sunset Strip. I'm not sure when this happened but I think I was heading into the Foundation Room after using the bathroom and he got up in my face making weird noises. Later him and his friends showed up to the 101 Diner in Hollywood and he kept staring at me. My friends wanted to fight him. I stupidly DMed him on Twitter asking what his problem was and he was asking for my number which I refused to give him. I do know in 2011 he had text me from a Las Vegas number at 2am and was asking me to come over. He was dating scene queen Lexus Amanda (Max Green's ex) at the time. I asked "who's this?" and he responded with "Ronnie Radke" to which I immediately blocked him without responding. At some point in 2012 before the Warped Tour Kickoff in March I had received a text from an LA number asking for nudes one night. I asked who it was and he told me it was him. Again blocked him without responding and I gave his number to a friend a week later. She started texting him and sent a selfie because they'd met before and his response was "DUDE I'M IN BED WITH MY GIRLFRIEND" and grilling her, mind you this was at like 3 in the afternoon. At the Warped Tour Kickoff I gave his number to another friend and she text him a selfie and was like "Hey where are you? Let's hang." or something. He never responded to her. Later in the night during his set he looked at her and pointed her. This is not a coincidence. Ronnie proved it was him texting me. Ronnie you are a gross, disgusting creep. Getting girls numbers that you don't know from your "friends" is extremely creepy and a huge red flag. I'm so glad I didn't talk to you and kept blocking you any time you tried to contact me. So many friends have shared stories about you being vile and creepy towards them or how they witnessed you using drugs backstage as recently as 6 years ago when you claim you've been clean and sober since getting out of prison. You may have fooled a lot of people into thinking you're a good dude and are talented but I see through your bullsh*t and see that you're nothing but a fraud and a wolf in sheeps clothing. Hopefully your fans wake up and realize what a scummy person you are one day because you don't deserve to be where you are. Saraya actually seems like a decent and genuine person and can do so much better than you. Hopefully you're treating her better than your ex's. I know all about how badly you treated Lexus, your ex fiancee and other girls.

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This is nothing new. People were posting Chris from Less Than Jake on The Dirty years ago and the comments would say Chris didn't abuse his power. I shared my story for the first time in 2017, less than a year after the last interaction with him and people started sharing on social media where fake fan accounts popped up calling me a liar and saying that the band should "sue the sh*t out of me for slander". I believe these accounts that have been defending Chris and Roger are mostly likely them defending themselves. When people have called them out they just block everyone and never say anything. Wouldn't surprise me if they made the fake accounts. Back in August I went on Reddit to share what happened to me and there was 2 accounts spending a lot of time on my post harassing me and harassing anyone who left a comment in support or sharing their story of what happened to them calling them liars or groupies. None of which are true. I believe all the other survivors. We aren't sharing our stories for clout or money or to ruin innocent people's lives. Nothing I have shared are lies or exaggerated. Chris and Roger take advantage of their fans in one way or another. The comments above were left on posts about other bands I made. One was when I had shared a picture of the Infamous Ass Pass that Senses Fail used to give out to girls. I got this from a photographer's social media page but theirs had "ass" crossed off. The pass was discussed with Buddy on an episode of the Lead Singer Syndrome Podcast a few years ago. He seemed embarrassed they made those and regrets it. Dave and Garrett, former guitarists, are the only members that I know of that were problematic. The other post I received a comment on was when I realized that Craig Mabbitt, singer of Escape The Fate, r*ped me in 2010 after very actively persuing me for at least a month. One night I blacked out at Les Deux in Los Angeles and he took me back to my apartment and well you know what happened. I know what happened but didn't remember what happened and for over 10 years I never realized what it was. He took advantage of me when I was clearly too intoxicated to consent or really know what was going on. In the state of California this is clearly considered r*pe because I could not consent to anything. For months I was tormented by his friends who seemed to know everything. (continued in next post)

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Chris and Roger,

Fuck you for doing the things you did to not only me but others. Yes I've received messages about both of you that were both similiar in nature to what you have done to me.

Roger picking me, a young fan out of the crowd of fans to try and push to do porn, strip, etc on a regular basis behind your girlfriend's back. I was still young and naive at the time. Talking about things you wanted to see me do and what you wanted to do to me. Back then I didn't realized what you were really doing. Things that are most definitely red flags. Chris being salty that I rejected you and resorting spreading rumors about me and trying to put a wedge in my friendships. You terrorized me for years when all I did was want to attend festivals to see other bands and not yours. I actively was avoiding you but you went out of your way to find me to ruin my day. Pretending we were bffs in front of others and then being a disgusting, vile creep when no one was around. You know damn well that you are a liar and that I never did anything with you ever. I know you told your bandmates that you slept with friends of mine when they never did anything with you. Your behaviour and the fact that you got off on terrorizing me for years is disgusting. Total college fratboy behavior that's still going on at 50.

Both of you groped me when I was heavily intoxicated and could never consent to it. You had no right to touch me.

What you both have done to me and others is horrific. Fuck you both and I hope you rot in hell. -Clea

PS Brian Maiden you lurking around while Chris was doing this stuff to me and laughing makes you just as bad as him. Whatever he has told you about me is a lie. You're not a good person for thinking his behavior is ok and for standing around watching him do this over and over again. Fuck you too.

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Chris Demakes and Roger Lima from Less Than Jake (TW: Sexual harassment/SA/stalking)

PART 2: In 2011 I attended Warped Tour and was invited to come hang out at the BBQ. Less Than Jake had a bar set up backstage and were playing bartender. Chris was completely wasted and stumbled over to me and said “I’m getting desperate here, will you bl*w me?” and my response was “um…what? Excuse me!”. He repeated himself and I told him now, so he stumbled off. Later I saw him taking a couple of girls who looked barely legal onto the bus with him. The following year I attended one of their shows and ran into a friend of mine at the bar after the show. Chris and Roger were hanging out as well as some other friends and fans of theirs. Drinking and shooting the shit.  The four of us plus my friend’s friend hung out for a little bit after before they invited all of us to come see them the following night. My friend and I ended up going but when we got there things were kind of off. We were sitting at a bar and Chris approached us. He took my friend to go chat alone and he made her think he was interested in her. For months she and I didn’t talk and then I finally found out what happened. Chris convinced her to cut me off and that he was in a relationship with her up until he ghosted her.  She was devastated. We started talking again and she told me everything about how manipulative he is. She apologized and I forgave her. Sometime later we were at a bar on a trip and were playing on our phones when we stumbled across a whole post about Chris on the now defunct website The Dirty. Whoever posted it was talking about how gross and creepy he was. We left a comment that only said #MeToo. That was the last time I went to one of their shows. Later I started hearing rumors that Chris had spread about my friend through a mutual friend. I told her that Chris was telling everyone that she slept with him and she swears up and down that never happened. I believe her because Chris is known to lie a lot.

Occasionally they played a festival I was at and I would stay far away from the stage during their set and actively go out of my way to avoid them especially Chris. At pretty much all these festivals as soon as he caught wind that I was there he’d come find me somehow. If people were around he would hug me and act like we were bff. When no one was around he would say really disgusting things to me like he “wanted to have unprotected buttsex with me”. No matter what it was blatantly obvious he was making me uncomfortable. The last time I was at a festival they played I thankfully did not run into any of them but saw them doing a meet and greet from afar. One of my best friends walked by their table and flipped Chris off during this. I love her for that! Now years later I am strongly thinking that Chris was salty after I rejected him at Warped Tour 2011 so he went around saying I did something that never happened. This would explain why Roger started avoiding me after that. I have not and would never do anything with Chris or Roger. Less Than Jake, mostly Chris and Roger remind me of those creepy frat dudes in college that thought they were cool. Like "let's throw a keg party and try to score with chicks" but come off extremely creepy. Also things like Chris telling people he hooked up with girls that rejected him and starting gross rumors.

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Chris Demakes and Roger Lima of Less Than Jake (TW: SA, harassment, stalking)

PART 1: When I was growing up, I had it kind of rough at home and at school so I would use music as an escape in my room.  One day during my freshman year I had been listening to the local radio station and they were playing 'Johnny Quest Thinks We’re Sellouts' by Less Than Jake and I was immediately hooked. This radio station kind of picked what they wanted to play instead of playing whatever the actual single was. Fast forward to 2003 and I go see Less Than Jake for the first time at a local venue and think they’re great. I met both Roger Manganelli and Chris Demakes after the show and got my Borders and Boundaries cd signed by them. At the time I thought Roger was nice but thought Chris was strange.  The following year they returned, and they invited my friends and I out to a tiny hole in the wall bar after the show. I was the only one of age. During our hangs at the bar Roger paid extra special attention to me and wanted a picture with me. He put his arm around me and pulled me close to him and touched the side of his head to mine. Afterwards my friends kept calling him Uncle Raj and I didn’t know why until much later. They thought he was creepy.

I don’t remember exactly when he gave me his AIM screen name and email address wanting me to keep in touch. It was probably end of 2003 or early 2004 but he found my MySpace. This was really when things started getting weird. He had added me from his other band Rehasher’s MySpace account and in the middle of the night he would slide into my DMs while he had been drinking and/or smoking. At one point I had the song 'The Science Of Selling Yourself Short' on my MySpace profile because it was one of my favorites at the time. One night he slides into my DMs asking me to remove the song so he "could masturbate in peace". At the time I didn’t see all the red flags or realize how inappropriate he was starting to get. I was kind of excited that someone was showing interest in me because I definitely wasn’t cool during my school years. He made me feel like I was part of the cool crowd. As time went on, I was getting instant messages on AIM from him saying that I should do porn, I should strip, saying he wanted to get me a toy because he wanted to see me use it, etc. He’d frequently ask for nudes, but I was hesitant because I’ve always been really uncomfortable with my body. During this time Roger was living with his girlfriend and he told me he had to wait until she was sleeping before he could talk to me. He also liked to randomly say that he was horny and loved blowjobs. Looking back now I would have blocked him and never gone to see them play again. A former friend of mine, who was visiting, and I went to 3 of their shows in 2006. Chris gave her his number, somehow convinced her to send him nudes and then he ghosted her. At a show in 2007 (I think) they were doing the wheel of fortune thing and I won a cereal box with their logo on it. They told the crowd it had a giant d*ldo inside. I was mortified. Thankfully it was just a t-shirt, guitar strings, a shot glass and a couple other little things. During the show I was drinking and drank a little too much. Before I left, I went to go say goodbye to Roger and found both him and Chris outside the bus. They started making comments about my breasts and saying they were fake. They’re not and I told them that. After I said they’re real they both touched my breasts. I never consented to this and couldn’t have with how much I had drank. Never in a million years (at that time) would I have thought they would do that to me.

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New Blog

Hi all! I lost access to my old blog so I wanted to make a new one and have set it up so you can submit your stories of band dudes sexually harassing, assaulting, stalking, etc you. You will be anonymous but I wanted to set up something for you to share your stories. I will be posting mine here as well. So far there have been some stories involving Chris and Roger from Less Than Jake but it wouldn’t surprise me if they have a bunch of girls/women out there that have dealt with their inappropriate behaviour. I will also share stories from people I know who were minors at the time. This will be to show what some of these band dudes are doing that’s on a whole other level.

Please be patient while I get things post here. xo - Clea Dave Miller (ex-guitarist) of Senses Fail exchanged nudes with a 15 year old girl when he was 20 or 21.

Garrett Zablocki (ex-guitarist) of Senses Fail was having sex with girls under 18 on the bands tour bus. Besides the person I know I’ve been told similar stories by other people.

Unknown former roadie for Senses Fail fisted a 14/15 year old girl. (NOTE: this was NOT Shawn Nelson)

Bert McCracken (vocalist) of The Used tried to coerce a 13 year old girl into the shower with him. I’ve heard similar stories involving 13 year other girls from a couple other people.

Frank Zummo (drummer) of Sum 41 and Street Drum Corps made out with a 13 year old girl when he was early 30s.

Jorge Herrera (ex-vocalist) of The Casualties had a threesome with a 15 year old girl and another young girl (age unknown) and gave them VD.

Jared Leto (vocalist) of 30 Seconds To Mars had a 15 year old girl on his bus and had her panties when she left the bus.