Weezer bassist’s wife breaks silence after police shooting

Weiser Bassist Scott Schreinerestranged wife, Jillian Laurenrevealed that her “world came crashing down” after she was shot by police in Los Angeles in April.

“It’s like, you spend a lifetime putting a whole deck of cards in order. One day, you pick them up and throw them up in the air, and I’m still waiting to see how they’re going to land,” Lauren, 52, told us. rolling stones In an interview published on Saturday, December 20.

Lauren was arrested He was charged with attempted murder following a tense standoff with police in Los Angeles in April. Los Angeles Police Department officers were in the area investigating a suspect in a hit-and-run that occurred the previous day.

According to police, officers witnessed Lauren “handgun-wielding” outside a “neighboring residence,” leading to a backyard showdown.

“Officers ordered Lauren multiple times to drop her handgun. She refused,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement at the time. “(Lauren) then pointed a handgun at officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred.”

Lauren was allegedly shot in the arm and ran into the home, where police later recovered a 9mm handgun. The author was arrested for attempted murder and eventually released on $1 million bail.

this everything you want The author has now told rolling stones She spent a lot of time in her cell, memorizing the graffiti on the walls.

“It gave me a chance to get out of my head during those few hours in the cell and imagine who else was there,” she recalled. “Throughout the pain, I said I would never write a book about this because I could never go through something like this again.”

Prosecutors ultimately decided to charge Lauren with negligent discharge of a firearm and assault with a semiautomatic weapon.

Lauren pleaded not guilty but later agreed to undergo a two-year mental health diversion program. At that time, her lawyer Hilary Potashner Publicly thanked the district attorney for “carefully reviewing this matter” and finding a “fair” resolution.

Looking back on this ordeal, some girls: my harem life She agreed to enter a diversion program “to protect (her) family,” the author said.

“When the headlines come out, my joke is, ‘I’m not just a gun-toting criminal, now I’m a crazy criminal,'” she joked. “My PTSD is a very real thing. I was a victim of sex trafficking and domestic violence. … When the headlines said ‘mental health diversion,’ what I really thought was, ‘Okay, great. People are very afraid to talk about this … and I’m in a position where I can talk about it.'”

Schreiner, 60, told TMZ shortly after his wife’s arrest The couple is “okay” Despite going through “a rough patch.”

However, us weekly It was reported on December 2 that Lauren files for divorce after the holy land Married for 20 yearsand cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the breakup.

lauren admitted rolling stones The media coverage of her divorce was actually more painful than the “headlines” about her arrest.

“The headlines about divorce really hurt me,” she said. “I’m here for my husband, but it’s really painful to see this in public. It’s definitely a day spent under the covers, blocking out all the noise. Divorce is painful, and I don’t care who you are.”

As for where the estranged couple are now, Lauren explained to the publication that Schreiner “is still[her]best friend,” but they’ve “grown apart” as a couple.

“We still have beautiful children and have always supported each other through our various transitions,” she added.

us Shriner has been contacted for comment.

Shriner and Lauren married in November 2005 and later adopted Tariku in 2007 and Jovanni in 2009.