Guitarist Jen Majura and Evanescence parted ways earlier this year after the band initiated the split. “It has been a very special chapter in the band with our dear friend Jen Majura, but we have decided it’s time to go our separate ways,” the band said at the time.
Singer Amy Lee commented further on the split saying: “It’s hard to explain what I’m saying without being specific. And we all love Jen; we had a great time with Jen. [I] don’t want to make it like it’s anything negative there. But sometimes that chapter just ends, and when you feel that and you know that as a band, that’s how you keep things going. That’s how you keep your team, your band, and everything healthy and moving the way it’s supposed to move. It’s complicated but at the same time you just need to follow your heart. At the end of the day, when you follow your heart and trust each other, you can move forward into a better place than you could’ve imagined for.”
Majura has commented previously on the split and she elaborated on the difficult time she’s had since in a new interview with IbagensCast.
“I’m tired,” she said. “I am very, very tired because there are many opinions and there’s a lot of judgment out there. It got to a point where no matter what I posted, people had opinions about that. And it seems ridiculous to me, but if I would say honestly how I feel — I’m hurt; it’s hard; of course I’m not feeling great — people would go, like, ‘Oh, you’re playing the victim.’ So, I’m, like, ‘Okay. All right then.’ So I said, ‘Actually, I’m doing okay. I’m all right.’ And then, of course, people would go, like, ‘She never gave a shit about the band.’ And it got to a point where I’m, like, ‘You know what? I could post about my blueberry yogurt, and you would still find a way to connect this to what happened.“
“I must say I turned very quiet on social media, because I just wanted to avoid all that white noise, all that blabbering, all these opinions — I was just tired of that,” Majura continued. “And also, at the same time, when you break up with an ex-partner — that’s the easiest example; you break up with your partner — the last thing on planet earth is that you wanna see that ex-partner on social media moving on. It’s, like, ‘No. I don’t wanna see that.’ I needed time to digest the whole thing. And like I said, I think the first few months I was just very busy with convincing everybody that I was doing okay when I honestly wasn’t; I was not okay.”
Majura went on to say that it was difficult to have everything she said judged in such a public manner.
“I just realized that apparently this is a topic and people like to talk about it, but I don’t necessarily need to be a part of that,” she said. “So I turned very quiet on social media. And the more I distanced myself from that whole thing, the more I’m, like… I’m gonna say this right now, ’cause it’s horrible, but I’m gonna say it anyway… The more I felt grossed out by the humankind. So altogether, I have not been good. I’m okay, but I’m far away from being good.”
“What this whole past [few] months really did to me is I started questioning a lot more that I feel that I should,” Majura admitted. “I have more doubts. I am way more careful. And I never decided to be like that, because I would like to be this open-hearted, positive, good, welcoming person. But it changed me.”
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