Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault that may disturb some readers.

In late September, Los Angeles-based artist Meagan Boyd wrote in a post on Instagram that Sigur Rós drummer Orri Páll Dýrason sexually assaulted her. Specifically, Boyd accused Dýrason of engaging in non-consensual sex with her while she slept, during a night they spent together five and a half years ago. On October 1, days after Boyd’s initial post, Sigur Rós announced that Dýrason had left the band as a result of the allegation. In a statement on Facebook, Dýrason wrote, “I will do anything in my power to get myself out of this nightmare, but out of respect for those actually suffering from sexual violence, I will not take that fight public.”

Pitchfork talked with both Boyd and Dýrason over the course of the past week.

Speaking with Pitchfork, Dýrason denied Boyd’s claim that he had non-consensual sex with her, and said that they did not have sex at all. But Dýrason confirmed he spent the night in question with her, “talking and drinking.” He also confirmed the authenticity of two September 27 emails from him that Boyd had posted on Instagram. Dýrason declined to comment further, but told Pitchfork that he plans to say more at a later date. “My comment is I didn’t do anything,” he said.

Boyd told Pitchfork that on January 9, 2013, when she was 26 years old, she was working at a strip club in West Hollywood called the Body Shop. Around 3:30 a.m., she said she stepped out for a cigarette and encountered a man with a nice car, who said he was the driver for a member of a band that was in town. The driver allegedly recommended she ask the band member, whom he described as “a blonde-ish guy in a cap,” if he wanted a dance. Boyd said that she went back into the club and before long encountered the man in a cap: Dýrason, then 35.

“He ended up telling me that he was in an Icelandic band and they were recording an album. I just guessed that it was Sigur Rós,” Boyd told Pitchfork. “I got a little bit excited. I told him I was an artist. And he seemed sort of interested.”

Boyd told Pitchfork that Dýrason invited her back for drinks at the place in Silverlake where he was staying. Boyd drove and he sent his driver away, she said and Dýrason confirmed in his September 27 emails.

“Sometimes when you have admiration for someone you just trust them,” Boyd told Pitchfork. “That’s why I went along with it. There’s no other circumstances that I would have left the club with a guy, ever.” She said, “When you work in environments like that you have to expect that men are going to feel like they have the right to disrespect you. But when I met Orri he didn’t seem like he was one of those guys… You wouldn’t think somebody in that band would even be at a strip club.”

Boyd said they arrived where Dýrason was staying and had drinks together. “At this point, it was like 6 or 7 in the morning,” she told Pitchfork. According to Boyd, Dýrason told her he was married and his wife had recently given birth. “It was a kind of a reality check,” she said.

Boyd was thinking about leaving, she said, when Dýrason asked her to stay, got into bed, and then asked if she would cuddle with him. “I felt guilty because I was dating someone at the time, but I don’t know—I was sort of charmed.”