Perry Farrell’s Wife Gives Her Account Of The Jane’s Addiction Fight, And It’s Weird

Perry Farrell ’s wife has given her “first person account” of the now-notorious onstage fight between two members of Jane’s Addiction , and it’s unclear if her perspective will help fans empathize with her husband.

On Friday, Farrell, the lead vocalist for Jane’s Addiction, appeared visibly upset during a show in Boston before shoving guitarist Dave Navarro and throwing a punch at him, as video footageposted online shows.

The confrontation spurred a fiasco onstage as several people attempted to restrain Farrell, which eventually resulted in the concert’s abrupt end.

On Saturday, Farrell’s wife, Etty Lau Farrell, decided to post yet another video of the fight on Instagram, sharing her “first person account” while offering some context of the incident.

“Perry had been suffering from tinnitus and a sore throat every night,” Etty Lau Farrell wrote. As a result, she said, her husband’s “frustration had been mounting, night after night,” during the band’s most recent tour because “he felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band.”

Etty Lau Farrell said everything came to a head Friday night when Jane’s Addiction played their song “Ocean Size” because the band began playing the song “before Perry was ready and did the count off.”

“The stage volume was so loud at that point, that Perry couldn’t hear pass [sic] the boom and the vibration of the instruments and by the end of the song, he wasn’t singing, he was screaming just to be heard,” she wrote.

Perry Farrell eventually “lost it” when audience members in the first row “started complaining” and “cussing at him” because “they couldn’t hear him,” his wife said.

Etty Lau Farrell said her husband’s frustration resulted in