Post Kris ‘Rainman’ Trindl leaving Krewella, the Yousaf sisters were immediately painted as the villains in the entire saga, which led to lawsuits, and counter lawsuits, until the whole thing was settled just last year.
In a recent interview with Thump, Jahan and Yasmine sit down to talk about the whole incident in detail, explaining what actually happened. Check out some of the excerpts here below:
In August 2013, Kris had gotten over-intoxicated and was hospitalized at a show in Phoenix. His sister, mom, and [our manager] Jake flew to Phoenix to bring him back to LA, and at that point they made the decision that his problem had become very serious, and that he needed help. Unfortunately, the timing of that coincided with Krewella’s first really big headlining tour, the “Get Wet” tour in September 2013. We had to figure out a way to explain why Kris wasn’t on the road for the first half of that tour, and we just said he was sick.
Despite whatever you’ve seen online [about how] we tried to squeeze him out of Krewella, it was actually very traumatizing for us to go on tour without him. We felt that it was very important to have the male member of the group there, who fans thought was the producer. I remember not wanting the fans to think that it was just about the two of us.
Discussing Kris‘ counter lawsuit, which alleged that he was kicked out of the group because the sisters didn’t like for being sober, the said:
Jahan – The most hurtful part of that headline was that it said we kicked him out because he wasn’t fun anymore—because he was sober and we wanted to party.We respected his sobriety, but we were kind of in denial—we didn’t want to think that our brother had alcoholism issues—so when we saw him drinking, we had to almost laugh at it, like “Oh haha, you’re drunk again.” Because it was too depressing to know that nothing we did worked. I remember so many times we were waiting in the car at 5AM because we didn’t know where he was.
Yasmine – The funny part is that we went sober long before he ever went to rehab. I always looked up to Kris like a big brother that could do no wrong, so it was very hard for me to accept the fact that he had a problem. I didn’t think that he was an alcoholic until the day he went to rehab.
A lot of the times he would disappear. We would feel like his mother on the road: worrying about him, tucking him into bed, carrying him to his hotel room.
Speaking about the insinuations that Kris was the only one who did any work, the sisters said:
I think the biggest assumption that pissed me off the most was that [Yasmine and I] didn’t work. [Kris] was getting all the credit. That had a lot to do with us being females. Right before he decided to leave Krewella, Kris himself told me, “I should have known never to trust two beautiful girls.”
It was hurtful because he thought we were screwing him over. No matter what we said, we couldn’t get it through to him that it wasn’t fair that Yasmine and I were working so hard and exhausting ourselves on the road—and that [he] had to step it up.
You can check out the full interview here.
Source: THUMP
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