Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has broken his silence since pleading guilty to charges of drug possession and threatening to kill.
“I’ve seen the error of my ways,” he told Austalia’s A Current Affair, during a 12-minute video segment. “Onward and upward from here.”
Rudd pleaded guilty to the charges in April, shortly before he was due to stand trial in New Zealand. He was first arrested in November 2014 over the incident which happened on 26 September 2014. According to the police’s summary of events, Rudd rang a man he knew and threatened to kill both him and his daughter.
In an interview with A Current Affair, Rudd said: “You make your own mistakes and it was a mistake of the charges. We all make mistakes.”
He also talked about his wish to join AC/DC on their current world tour, which they’ve gone ahead with using former drummer Chris Slade.
“I’m fit and ready to go,” Rudd said, but admitted the band had not contacted him since the charges were laid.
A rather unsupportive statement by guitarist Angus Young suggests this isn’t likely to change any time soon: “Phil created his own situation,” it reads. “It’s a hard thing to say about the guy. He’s a great drummer, and he’s done a lot of stuff for us. But he seems to have let himself go. He’s not the Phil [we knew] in the past.”
Rudd is due back in court on 26 June for sentencing.
