Best recalled Campbell making the comment, “Kids will be kids,” in reference to what happened in Brewer’s hotel room. “[Campbell],” he told TRR, “definitely, in his language, alluded to his job as a tour manager is to clean things up or make things go away, and that he’s been doing that a long time.”
Steve Campbell told TRR that he resented “any implication that [he] would ever cover anything up” and denied saying any of what Best recalled.
Rape Test Determines Nicole Was Sexually Assaulted
At the tour’s next stop in Minnesota, Nicole left the tour and was taken to St. John’s Hospital, located just outside of St. Paul, Minnesota, where she completed a rape test that proved she had been sexually assaulted.
Best then accompanied Nicole to the Fargo Police Department to file a sexual assault report. Best told TRR that he felt the detective displayed an unwillingness to pursue Nicole’s allegations and recalled the officer saying, “Even if she had a rape kit, it’s not worth processing it because it’ll take three to six months.”
Nicole told TRR she never heard back from the detective.
‘My Hope, Prayer, and Intention…Is Not [To] Ruin Lives’—Nicole Shares Why She Is Telling Her Story Now
“My hope, prayer, and intention, from the first day I called the police, is not [to] ruin lives and it’s definitely not to tear down the Christian music industry,” Nicole told TRR. She said that she has “worked in the industry for 12 years and can guarantee there are good people.”
Nicole desires that her story save others from the pain she has had to endure. “I’d love for the Newsboys to admit they were wrong [and] to at least stop them from hurting people behind closed doors.”
“I hope my story can somehow save someone else from the pain and destruction of sexual abuse or harassment,” she said. “What if I was your daughter?”
Pulse Releases a Statement
“Today we are standing with our former employee as she tells her story and recognize the courage it takes to do so. We are praying for all the victims and for the truth to come out,” Pulse told TRR.
Pulse has never worked with Newsboys since the incident with Nicole.
