Jackie Fox: Joan of today would not let assault happen

[RoadWarrior]

Former Runaways member Jackie Fox, or as she is known today, Jackie Fuchs, appeared on HuffPost Live Thursday to discuss her sexual assault by band manager Kim Fowley in the mid-70's.

Fuchs went public with the allegations two weeks ago and, since then, both Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, who were Fuchs' bandmates, have said that they don't remember the incident. In today's interview, Jackie appeared to be accepting of Jett's lack of action although she still says that Joan was a witness to the assault.

The important thing to focus on is that certainly the Joan of today would not stand by and watch a bandmate being assaulted in any way without doing something. But at the time of the incident, Joan like most of the other people in the room was a teenager. And we all like to think that we are the type of people who would stop an assault in progress because most of us are good moral people. But even good moral people have a hard time acting when they see an event of bullying or of sexual assault or anything similar. They looked around, the adults weren't doing anything, the people in the band weren't doing anything, and they just didn't want to speak up in case they were misinterpreting the situation.

She also talked about wishing she could hear an apology from Fowley, who died earlier this year:

I really had wanted to just hear him tell me what he was thinking that night. to find out if there was something that I hadn't realized. Ideally to hear him say, 'Look, I'm really sorry for what I did to you. I wronged you, and can you ever forgive me?' Because I would like to get to a place where I can forgive him. And I'm not there yet, but I want to be. Not for his sake, obviously, but for my own. Because carrying around hate and anger doesn't do me any good. I'm working on that.