Earlier this week, Moe Trooper was removed from his company, management and publicist following allegations of abuse from his former romantic partner Maya Stoner of Floating Room. In the days following Stoner's posts, the troper deactivated his social media accounts, but has now reactivated them and issued a statement denying the allegations.
“This past weekend, I was devastated by allegations of abuse against my ex-girlfriend, Maya Stoner,” the troper wrote. “Due to privacy concerns and, frankly, the paralyzing anxiety I get at the thought of interacting with this person in any way, I have deleted my social media. These allegations are false. I was never physically abusive toward Maya, nor have I ever been physically abusive toward Maya.” Physically towards any partner.”
He continued:
My relationship with Maya was not healthy. We've gotten into terrible arguments, I've incited a lot of conflict, and I've said some terrible things, some of which are now exposed for the entire Internet to see. It's true that I was dismissive of Maya's autism diagnosis. I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome as a child and resented the fact that Maya received support and compassion from her peers while I never did even though that door was open to me. (Maya admits this in one of her many screenshots, where she confesses to a friend that I was “hating autism in a way that hates me.”) There were times when I was a huge, huge jerk and I could see that this behavior was hurting Maya. I'm sorry.
Maya disparaged my “rock star career,” implying that the collateral damage from these accusations was insignificant because music is not my primary source of income. That's not the case, since last year I've been producing and engineering other people's records full time (even though I come from money). As a result of the allegations, sessions were cancelled, recording contracts were breached, and albums that were completed last year and scheduled for release were shelved. Many people have now lost thousands of dollars due to Maya's reckless and unsubstantiated claims of abuse.
Over the course of several days and hundreds of tweets Maya posted about her sex life (I wanted to be scammed), my medical diagnoses, and talked about my body and habits in very degrading ways. I have publicly revealed conversations I had with my therapist that I privately relayed to her and she downplayed my bipolar disorder. She would repeatedly call and harass my friends, run some of them offline, and respond to all dissent with extreme aggression. You weaponized the language of psychoanalysis and portrayed me as a monster on par with OJ Simpson.
What sparked all of this was a quote I didn't write in the bio for an album that most people haven't heard, which Maya interpreted as “I brag about being a torturer.” Somehow this became proof that the entire album is a concept album about me being abusive. That's not the case, and only one of the songs on this album is explicitly about Maya, and it's about the time she pushed me into bed, pinned me down, and screamed at me.
During all this Maya made no attempt to contact me. I don't think it's about restoration, I think it's about complete and complete destruction. She tried to isolate me from my support network after she ruined my career. I do not wish any ill will towards Maya, nor do I have any desire to harm her. I would assure her that no one close to me feels this way either. At this point I'm simply asking for a little mercy.
– Mo Troper (@mo_troper) March 21, 2024
