Talk:Seth Avett
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Dating of personal relationships[edit]
A previous version of this page stated unambiguously that there was no overlap between the end of Avett's first marriage and when he began dating his second wife. However, the citations were merely to two anonymous "insider" accounts given to Us Magazine. But these conflict with a similar anonymous report published in Radar Online (https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/06/jennifer-carpenter-affair-avett-brothers-drummer/). The Avett brothers explicitly addressed the rumors in a Rolling Stone interview (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-avett-brothers-long-road-233149/ ):
- In June [2013], the Avetts were propelled into the world of TMZ and Perez Hilton when Seth announced he was separating from his wife, Susan. Gossip sites claimed that he’d been dating Carpenter since 2011. Fans viciously lashed out at the band (“[He] left the family values of NC for the money and fame of L.A.,” wrote one commenter), perhaps due to the wholesomeness of some of their songs – their fan-favorite ballad “January Wedding” is an ode to Seth’s former marriage.
- Says Scott, “I was like, ‘Boy, if our fans thought we were better than anybody else, this is the best thing that ever happened to me.'” He’s been married to a North Carolina former nurse for 10 years. “If temptation of another person or something was to show itself, you just have to remove yourself from that. It’s just pretend. It’s not real, and how could it possibly end well?”
- It didn’t help when Radar Online reported that the band’s former drummer, Jacob Edwards, was fired after confronting Seth about the affair. “That was just crazy,” says Scott of the story. “He just didn’t work out in the band.”
- “Sketchy publicity was not fun,” says Seth.
To me, this reads like a denial that the drummer's departure was related, but it does not necessarily read like a denial that there was overlap on the timing of the relationships; at the same time, it seems like a personal matter, ancillary to Avett's page. And so I've edited the article to be more succinct on these points, and eliminated some of the disputed details.
Just trying to document what I did, to save others from going down the same rabbit holes I did. And apologies if I overlooked any relevant sources. I just didn't want the page to inacurrately whitewash things. Engelhardt (talk) 20:16, 23 August 2019 (UTC)