Lorde's ex-manager fired from Warner for sexual harassment

The singer Lorde -

Scott MacLachlan, the man who helped launch Lorde's international career, is no longer with Warner Music.

The manager, present alongside the New Zealand star when he debuted in 2008, five years before the release of his hit

, admitted to being guilty of sexual harassment.

Hired as Vice President of Warner Australasia in 2018, Scott MacLachlan was the subject, five months later, of an external investigation for “sexual harassment” and banned from the Australian office of the major according to the New Zealand site Stuff .

"He insinuated that he wanted to go beyond our professional relationship"

The publication also quotes the testimony of Amy Goldsmith, an employee of his company, Saiko Management, who also accuses him: “He implied that he wanted to go beyond our professional relationship.

He was making comments about my body.

He asked me if I wanted to kiss him.

Most of the time, I would tell him to shut up.

"

Asked by Stuff, Scott MacLachlan did not hide everything he had to blame himself for, assuring that he "regretted the intense pressure and the responsibility" that he had placed on "this employee", without quoting her.

“I was in a very dark time.

I considered this employee to be a confidante and I turned to her for help.

Obviously, I realize that she was not the right person to ask for help, ”admitted the manager, adding that he lived every day with the guilt of what he had done to his subordinates and to him. his family.

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