Filter's Patrick Asks Durst To Seek Help After 'Playboy' Comments

06/04/2002 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor

(6/4/02, 3 p.m. ET) -- Filter's Richard Patrick has answered Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's rant against him in the July 2002 issue of Playboy in which Durst called him a "f--king a--hole," among other things.

"It seems Fred Durst and I have a little problem," wrote Patrick on the Filter website. "I'm a little offended about what he said about me in the recent Playboy magazine. Fred, I hate to say this, but you need psychiatric help. Everyone that is good, you s--t on, you think the world is according to Fred Durst and Fred Durst alone, and that's why [guitarist] Wes [Borland] (the main musical genius of Limp Bizkit) left you."

Filter's Patrick added that he felt stabbed in the back once again. "I thought I made up with you at the Puddle Of Mudd concert, and I thought everything was cool but apparently not. If you email me I would be proud to find doctors that specialize in psychiatric help for you. Mental illness is nothing to be laughed at, and you're obviously suffering from some serious bitterness or clinical depression towards the world. All my best to you because I still love your band and I still love you. I just hope you seek the help that you need."

Durst referred in the article to a comment that Patrick made when the Limp Bizkit singer was trying to get with pop star Christina Aguilera.

"Patrick was like, 'Fred f--king ruined the credibility of rock 'n' roll,' F--king a--hole," Durst said in the Playboy interview. "I took his a-- on the Family Values Tour when no one wanted me to. I believed in his record. I'm a huge Filter fan. That guy's an ungrateful sack of s--t. F--king put that in bold letters, man. It's bulls--t the way some people are so two-faced? How did I ruin rock 'n' roll?"

-- Darren Davis, New York

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