Perry Farrell’s spouse reveals the REAL purpose behind brawl

Perry Farrell’s wife broke her silence after her husband attacked his lead guitarist at a show in Boston, claiming the frontman was upset by being ‘drowned out’ by his bandmates playing too loudly. 

Farrell’s wife Etty Lau took to Instagram to share her husband’s side of the story after he was slammed for body checking and punching guitarist Dave Navarro on stage on Friday night. 

‘Rather than speculating, I thought to post a first person account of what happened on stage,’ she wrote. 

Lau said Farrell has been struggling with ‘tinnitus and a sore throat every night’ that has affected his voice, and he ‘felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band.’ 

Frontman Perry Farrell began swearing on the mic before marching over to guitarist Dave Navarro and punching him some nine songs into Jane’s Addiction set in Boston

Farrell’s wife Etty Lau (pictured together) claimed her husband ‘lost it’ because he was being ‘drowned out’ by his bandmates playing too loudly 

Lau said that there had been ‘tension and animosity between the bandmembers’, but felt that this was not always a bad thing as it was also ‘the magic that made the band so dynamic.’ 

But on Friday night, Lau said her husband reached breaking point after he was heckled by fans who couldn’t hear him. 

‘When the audience in the first row, [they] started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it,’ she wrote. 

‘He wasn’t singing, he was screaming just be to be heard.’ 

Attendees say Farrell appeared to be heavily intoxicated at the Friday night show, with others claiming it was far from an unusual sight for the frontman who is known to down bottles of wine on stage. 

Fans said tensions began rising during the band’s rendition of ‘Mountain Song’, and by the time they got to ‘Ocean Size’ three song’s later, Farrell was seething. 

‘The band started the song Ocean before Perry was ready and did the count off,’ Lau said. 

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

Members of the crew had to come by to separate the pair and haul Farrell offstage

Lau signed off her Instagram post with a jab at ‘who won the fight’, claiming that bassist Eric Avery came out victorious as he aggressively confronted Farrell. 

‘While Dave (Navarro) was keeping Perry at arm’s length to de-escalate the situation, Dan (Cleary, a band technician) rushed over to de-escalate as well by holding Perry back,’ Lau wrote. 

‘Dave walked away to take his guitar off. Eric walked up to Perry, upstage, in the dark, behind Dan, put Perry in a headlock and punched him in the stomach three times.’

Lau said Avery had to be ‘pulled away’, before the bassist ‘nonchalantly walked off to the front of the stage to apologize to audience for the show ended early.’ 

She said while Navarro ‘still looked handsome and cool in the middle of a fight’, her husband ‘was a crazed beast’ in the aftermath of the altercation. 

‘He finally did not calm down, but did breakdown and cried and cried,’ she said, concluding that Avery ‘didn’t understand what de-escalation meant or took advantage of the situation and got in a few cheap shots on Perry.’