Pictures of D’arcy Wretzky has resurfaced on social media. Though they are unseen images of her, it is unclear when these were taken.
D’arcy Wretzky photos
In the 90s, The Smashing Pumpkins packed stadiums, becoming the most glamorous and deified outsiders of alternative rock. However, in 1999, the group announced the sudden dismissal of their bassist, D’Arcy Wretzky. She disappeared without a trace.
Almost 20 years later, during a reunion of the band’s original quartet, D’Arcy Wretzky spoke to Alternative Nation. Retired from music, she was living on a farm, training horses, and practicing martial arts. She claimed to be “much healthier and in better shape” than any of her former bandmates. And she also took the opportunity to tell her truth about one of the most bitter, controversial, and prolonged feuds that ever took place on the music scene.
In 1992, D’arcy Wretzky and James Iha — the co-founder of the group — put an end to a four-year-long romance that began during the band’s meteoric rise. The guitarist thus lost her emotional support. D’arcy never had a cordial relationship with Corgan and Wretzky was recruited after a heated argument during a concert.
Wretzky played bass for The Smashing Pumpkins during their first five albums, which catapulted them as a popular band. During their world tour, another traumatic event occurred: keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin died from a heroin overdose in New York, in the company of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Chamberlin was subsequently kicked out of the band and he had already fallen unconscious during several of the tour’s concerts due to his extreme addiction.
In 2018 the return of The Smashing Pumpkins with the original trio (Corgan, Iha and Chamberlin) was announced and the news about a hypothetical return of D’arcy Wretzky forced the artist to come out of her self-imposed exile.
“Getting into the studio with the band was always a fucking nightmare. It was horrible. I was so stressed that I had a miscarriage. Not even the band knows this. It was traumatic,” she told Alternative Nation.
“Billy loved to humiliate and embarrass people in front of others. He was a bully and I was the only one who stood up to him. [But] I got to a point where I couldn’t fight anymore and I needed to leave.”
Wretzky has also denied the rumors that her drug addiction affected the dynamics of the band. She said that the first time she saw cocaine in her life was at the age of 27, when Marilyn Manson consumed it in the dressing room after one of his concerts.
