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Alexa Nikolas, the actress and ex-wife of Rhye frontman Michael Milosh, has accused the musician of sexual abuse, gaslighting, and grooming in a series of lengthy Instagram posts shared on Sunday.

The album earned three-and-a-half stars from Rolling Stone and was longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. This is not the first time Nikolas has spoken publicly of her relationship with Milosh: She refers to a profile in Verse magazine in which she opened up about meeting Milosh when she was 16 and he was 33, though her description of their relationship at the time was largely positive.

In her Instagram post, Nikolas claims that Milosh and his representatives tried to remove the Verse article after it was published, even though she had not accused him of abuse in it. Nikolas then goes on to give a more detailed account of how she met Milosh, describing how she reached out to him via Myspace in One of these requests included asking to stay with Nikolas and her mother in Los Angeles when she was still 16, which she ignored. Nikolas says Milosh was aware she was underage at the time.

A post shared by Alexa Nikolas matchthesource. On her 18th birthday, Nikolas says Milosh asked her to fly out to Berlin, where he was staying at the time with a friend, though he requested that the two of them stay in a separate apartment and that she pay for it. Nikolas then details her first sexual encounter with Milosh on their first night in Berlin together, in which she claims he coerced her to engage in anal penetration and vaginal intercourse without a condom.

She recalls emailing a friend later that night, asking for help and saying she wanted to stay in a hotel instead, and included screenshots of her conversation in the letter. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. By Christine Werthman. Copied to clipboard. Click to copy. Milosh and Hannibal connected with the Innovative Leisure label, where they released their first two singles, "Open" and "The Fall," in The former was licensed for a Victoria's Secret commercial.

Rhye 's full-length debut, Woman , followed in March on Polydor in the U. It charted in Denmark and Belgium, as well as in the U.

Over the next few years, Milosh took Rhye on the road, touring and hitting the festival circuits in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. Minus Hannibal , Rhye returned in recorded form in mid with the slow and seductive "Please," the first of several singles issued through the end of the year. Blood , the second Rhye album, followed on Loma Vista in February It debuted at number in the U.

A trio of singles, "Beautiful," "Helpless," and "Black Rain," appeared in All three songs appeared the following January on the full-length Home, recorded at Miloshi's place in Topanga and at multiple historic studios in Los Angeles.