Mikey Way Denies Cheating Allegations Led To My Chemical Romance Split

Read his lengthy statement right here

Published 13th Nov 2013

Mikey Way has released a lengthy statement addressing the allegations from earlier this year that he cheated on his wife Alicia Simmons with a teenage model.

Back in January, an anonymous Tumblr account was set up containing dozens of Instagram photos of Mikey and his new fiancée Sarah.

This was picked up by the media and led to some speculating that the alleged affair contributed to the demise of My Chemical Romance two months later.

Three quarters of a year on, Mikey has spoken out about the media firestorm and claims the following things:

- The relationship had “absolutely nothing to do with (MCR) breaking up”. - MCR had split before the rumours emerged. - The Tumblr account was full of “slanderous and untrue statements.” - There was no cheating involved, as he’d already split up with Alicia. - The Tumblr page was created by “a friend of my ex”.

Read Mikey’s full statement here:

“Now that the air has cleared a bit, I feel like there's a lot of subjects that I need to clarify. As I've said before, my relationship with Sarah had absolutely nothing to do with the band breaking up. The band had dissolved prior to me and her ever being together, but it wasn't announced until much later. Secondly, the infamous Tumblr post that circulated the Internet was full of fudged facts in an attempt to embarrass Sarah and I. It was full of slanderous and untrue statements in an attempt to make a "good news story". In fact, much of it was directed at a person other than Sarah. It was blatantly made by a friend of my ex who did everything in their power to make us look like we were "horrible people". The fact that the post was magically deleted proves that the person knew I would find out their identity, and they would have faced serious consequences. Sarah and I didn't get together until I was already broken up with my ex, and there was no "cheating" involved. The instagram account Sarah had was set to private, and unlocked miraculously by somebody in an attempt to embarrass us further - hence how the instagram was found when only a few people knew who Sarah was in the first place. Its blatantly apparent who was involved in this. Regardless of all of this, it changes nothing. My fiance and I are the happiest family imaginable. All the social media bs, forum slander, internet gossip in the world can never and will never change this. People's opinions on the matter means zero to me. I just started to get fed up with one side of the story being considered factual, when in fact, it's the farthest thing from it.”