Puddle Of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin has said he wants to draw a line under his legal woes, claiming he “really seriously don’t really do that much wrong things”.
The singer has been at the centre of a string of controversies in recent years, including an arrest in March for felony domestic violence, another arrest last year after a police stand-off in which he was pepper sprayed, and a 2017 arrest for allegedly attempting to board a plane with a gun.
In a new interview with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, he has said that he wants to move on from the troubles in his personal life and argued that he has not behaved as badly as has been portrayed in the media.
“[My] main goal [is] just [to] stay out of trouble,” Scantlin said (transcribed by Blabbermouth). “And I really seriously don’t really do that much wrong things. I really just don’t. But I’m like a big fish in the little pond. I call myself a Christmas dinner trophy for the Poppo. I wonder how many times they’ve explained that they arrested me at their Christmas dinner, at Christmas day. I’m telling you, man. I’m just a big, huge trophy.”
“I’ve made some mistakes, but at certain points I could breathe in the wrong direction and get cuffed and slammed in a dungeon,” he added. “Shoot, man. It’s weird. My whole thing, my whole motto is turn around and run for your life as fast as you possibly can, man.”
“I’m talking about maybe like a girlfriend or something [not the police]. If they hit the ‘psycho wall,’ as I call it – turn around and run… Somebody’s gotta go down, and they usually pick me, ’cause I’m the trophy. But my motto is turn around and run as fast as you can and just run.”
Scantlin has also claimed he was “roofied” by an ex-bandmate after a disastrous gig in March, and he admitted that the band’s infamous cover of Nirvana’s ‘About A Girl’ “looked and sounded like total shit”.
