Rock star kicked off tour amid allegations of inappropriate messages with a minor

Modest Mouse dropped guitarist Simon O’Connor from upcoming tour dates amid accusations that the musician sent inappropriate messages to a minor.

“Throughout my adult life, there has been a person who has popped up from time to time with the intention of, for lack of a better term, messing with me,” he wrote. “This person creates multiple social media accounts and deletes them… but always posts similar photos that I often recognize from previous accounts.

“After a long night, I picked my phone up to discover that a similar profile had been interacting (‘likes’ to be specific) with some of my instagram posts and stories.”

O’Connor “assumed” he was dealing with the same person as before, and “with poor judgement, I decided to reach out with a tasteless meme, a sticker that read ‘Simon calls your bluff,’ and an attempt to indicate that I recognized the ‘barrage of likes’ and similar photo content from the previous profiles…. Almost a ‘gotcha.'”

“After a few minutes, I realized that I had made a mistake and this was not the person who I had dealt with before. I unsent the messages and immediately ceased communication,” he wrote.

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“I’m genuinely sorry to the person who received those messages. They didn’t deserve to be put in that position, and I’m sorry for the stress and attention this has brought them.”

He added, “I know some people will choose not to believe me, and I understand that. I can’t change what’s happened. All I can do is tell the truth, take responsibility for my mistake, and apologize.”

O’Connor previously toured with MGMT, and appears on Modest Mouse’s latest album, “An Eraser and a Maze.”