Lemonheads' Evan Dando Hospitalized After Sending Explicit Videos to Fan
Following reports that Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando sent sexually explicit videos to a fan, his representative states he is "receiving comprehensive help from experienced doctors and mental health professionals" in a hospital.
After reports surfaced that Evan Dando, the singer-songwriter who co-founded the Lemonheads four decades ago, sent unsolicited videos of himself masturbating to a fan, he was admitted to a hospital on Thursday.
“Evan Dando has long struggled with mental health issues dating back to his childhood,” the artist’s rep told Rolling Stone. “He’s been admitted to a local hospital where he’s receiving comprehensive help from experienced doctors and mental health professionals.”
A fan identified as “Dawn” on journalist Tony Ortega’s substack, The Underground Bunker, said she contacted the artist via social media DMs in October to congratulate him on the release of Love Chant, the Lemonheads’ first album of original music since The Lemonheads in 2006. Dando reportedly replied, “Cool I’m sorry I’m an exhibitionist.” The next day, she found a video of him masturbating in her DMs. “It’s him sitting in a basement or something, and he’s fully masturbating,” Dawn told Ortega. “You can see his penis, and his face. It’s definitely him. He’s filming it from a weird angle.” The Underground Bunker published SFW screenshots from Dando’s exchanges with Dawn.
Dando, 58, lives in Brazil with his wife Antonia Teixeira. He is stepfather to Teixeira’s three children.
“It’s so gross,” Dawn told The Underground Bunker. “I don’t want him to do this to anyone else. It’s just a gross feeling.”
Dando, who rose to alternative-rock fame in the Nineties, addressed his mental health challenges in his autobiography, Rumors of My Demise, released last year. In the book, he described how cocaine and heroin addiction stifled his creativity. “Most of my real friends retreated, hoping things would change,” he wrote. “The rest got a kick out of watching me unravel. I was in horrible shape, losing teeth, and living off cheeseburgers … and a $200 daily drug habit.”
The Lemonheads have tour dates scheduled later this year in the U.K., with one U.S. date supporting the Avett Brothers at Red Rocks.
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