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I will continue to support her quest to wellness but I can’t support extortion, false claims, and accusations put forth after the band attained new success without her.” (She says his comments about mental health and substance abuse are “bullshit”.) When she suddenly left Crystal Castles to handle her mental health issues and substance abuse issues I fully supported her. He sued her for defamation and issued his own statement: “Alice and I had a long ongoing relationship both personal and professional. Kath has repeatedly denied Glass’s allegations, describing them as “pure fiction”. She published a lengthy statement accusing Kath of nonconsensual sex, stalking, manipulation, intimidation and isolation, violence (including being dangled over a stairwell), control and derision. Glass with her former bandmate, Ethan Kath. If it wasn’t for them, I’m not sure how long it would have taken me to speak out.” “If someone goes first, it lets you know that you’re safe. But seeing other women speaking out about abuse last October was like watching “someone jumping off a cliff”, she says. Glass says she received cease-and-desist letters from the same firm that represented Bill Cosby, which quoted her tweets and intimated that Glass was making these statements to benefit her career. The song allowed her to speak covertly at a time when she was scared of going outside in case she was served with a lawsuit, she says, claiming that Kath started making legal threats in response to her tweeting stats about domestic abuse fatalities shortly after she announced her departure from the band. Glass had previously alluded to her experience when she released her debut solo single, Stillbirth, in July 2015: “You don’t own me any more,” she shrieked over music that she likened to “being eaten by fire ants”. She felt it was her responsibility, “especially after I had been told he had done similar things to at least one other woman”.

It was not until allegations surfaced against Harvey Weinstein that Glass (born Margaret Osborn) was emboldened to go public with detailed allegations of abuse against her ex-bandmate, Ethan Kath (real name Claudio Palmieri). It took time in rehearsals to shake off their negative associations. Ultimately, she decided to play the material to which she still felt connected – “where I’m feeling worthless and hopeless”, she says. She had polled fans on Twitter to ask which song she should play from the back catalogue of her former band, the anarchic electro-punk duo Crystal Castles, which she quit in October 2014. She apologises for the boxes that entomb the sofa, merch from her recent debut solo tour. Her voice only rises above its perpetual whisper when she calls to her cats, Mr Peanut and Fuzzy, the alpha who dominates her pit bulls, Jacob and Shadow. Glass is less macabre: there is a tattoo of Bambi on her thigh.

A spider crawls out of the toilet roll when I use her bathroom.

There is a fake Goya on the way down to her basement studio, where skulls surround the drums. Her kitchen resembles a graveyard of dead flowers she is annoyed that her living black lilies never droop when she is looking. A lice Glass’s Los Angeles home is a picture of gothic splendour.