Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s estranged wife, Jillian Lauren, is speaking out after a wild year that sparked headlines.
Lauren was shot by cops and booked for attempted murder in April, then filed for divorce from Shriner earlier this month.
The writer was shot by officers after interfering with a police chase in Los Angeles.
After police barricaded her neighborhood in Eagle Rock, Lauren, 52, exited her home with a handgun. She was told several times by law enforcement to drop her weapon but refused, pointing her gun toward police.
Cops subsequently shot her and she ran into her home.
“I was doing the best I knew to protect my family,” she said in an interview with Rolling Stone published Saturday. “[The] impulse was self-defense.”
“My world fell to pieces around me in a heartbeat,” she shared of the aftermath. “It’s like, you spend your whole life just getting an entire deck of cards in order. And just take them and throw them up in the air one day, and I’m still waiting to see how they’re gonna land.”
Lauren is now enrolled in a two-year mental health diversion program. She said she suffers from PTSD.
“I’m a victim of sex trafficking and domestic violence. … When the headlines said ‘Mental Health Diversion,’ what I really thought was, ‘OK, good. People are so scared to talk about this.’ I’m in a position where I can speak to it.”
“I had to go back and work on trauma from a long time ago in order to try and understand myself now, my actions,” she also shared.
As for filing for divorce from Shriner after 20 years of marriage, Lauren told the outlet that they had been growing apart for years and that the incident became a “crisis” point.
“Divorce is painful, I don’t care who you are,” she noted.
But she still considers Shriner, 60, her “best friend.” The pair shares two adopted children together: Tariku Moon and Jovanni “Jovi” Starshine.
“We still have beautiful kids together and have always really supported each other in our various transformations,” she said.
“We’re people who grow,” she continued. “We’re passionate people. We’re creative people. You hope you’ll change and grow together. We grew apart.”
A rep for Shriner didn’t immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
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