Members of Lostprophets have spoken out for the first time regarding the arrest and heinous sex crimes of Ian Watkins. Read segments from The PRP below after the jump.

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“At first he was sort of humble and assured us it wasn’t a problem. But later, I got the impression that he came away from that first intervention thinking, ‘Fuck those guys, they’re judging me, I can do whatever I want.’ At that point, the rest of us were all married, or very stable in our lives. I think part of the whole midlife crisis was a rebellion against the rest of us, in terms of, ‘You guys are all settling down with your wives and 2.4 children; well, I’m going to go the other way.’”

“I couldn’t even have a conversation with him towards the end. On the rare occasion when I would have to be alone with him, I absolutely dreaded it, because it was so awkward. We’d had so many fallings out and it was pointless trying to speak to him because he would spend half his time looking at his phone, and he was so secretive about the women he was seeing, or what he was doing.”