In a statement released on Sunday, Warshaw announced that in light of the allegations, she was relinquishing her day-to-day duties at the label for the foreseeable future and offered a public apology to Loveless.
“I apologize for any hell or even awkwardness I put Lydia or anyone through, due to my actions or inactions. No one, and especially no one within the Bloodshot community, should ever have to tolerate sexual harassment; feeling safe and comfortable should be your right.”“To achieve the part of which I personally can affect meant separating my personal life from my Bloodshot life, which I did. Since this issue came to light, my life partner Mark has not attended and will not be attending bloodshot events and he has not contacted and will not be contacting Lydia.”In a separate statement to the Chicago Tribune, Warshaw said she did not know how long her hiatus from the label would last and that it would depend on what is “best for the artists and the staff.”In a statement to the Tribune on Monday, Panick said: “Anyone accused of something like this that doesn’t immediately do some kind of internal audit is just not paying attention. I am no saint and behaviors learned in the past can be unlearned. I do not remember the events Lydia describes in the same way. But I truly regret making her feel like that and really wish I’d have understood that at the moment.”photo: Vivian HW Wang [CC BY-SA 4.0], via WikimediaCommons– CelebrityAccess
