Sebastian Bach has issued an apology following reports of his relationship with actress Christina Applegate when she was 17 years old.

Applegate’s new memoir You With the Sad Eyes was released on March 3. In it, she recounted attending the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989 with fellow actor Brad Pitt and subsequently leaving the event with the then-vocalist of Skid Row.

The rocker has since expressed regret about their past interactions during a recent interview with Billboard.

What Did Sebastian Bach Say About Christina Applegate’s Book?

While discussing his new role as the vocalist for Twisted Sister, replacing Dee Snider, Bach addressed Applegate’s memoir.

“I was a single guy on tour in a band and I met a lot of girls and I apologize if I hurt her…if I hurt anybody. When you’re young you get thrown into the whirlwind of rock ‘n’ roll, meeting a lot of people and you better hold on tight. It’s like being on a roller coaster,” the singer stated to the publication.

“It was a long time ago. If I hurt anybody, I apologize for it.”

Bach Wrote About His Relationship With Applegate in 2016

Bach had confirmed his relationship with Applegate in his own 2016 memoir, 18 and Life on Skid Row. He recounted running into the actress shortly after an encounter with Gene Simmons.

At that time, he had a girlfriend named Maria back home and they had a newborn baby, but he pursued Applegate nonetheless.

“Christina and I hit it off immediately. We exchanged numbers. I really liked her. She was very nice, very beautiful and very famous. Part of me thought that it would be good for the band if I hooked up with her. I thought of Maria back in Toronto but we were not married. No rings? No strings,” the rocker wrote.

The rocker detailed several occasions they spent together but insisted that they never had sex.

“We did not make love. I was very attached to Maria back home and Christina was very young,” he asserted.

What Did Christina Applegate Write in Her Memoir About Sebastian Bach?

In her memoir, Applegate recalled the night she met Bach while at the VMAs with Pitt.

“I had spent all night staring at Bach, who was then a long-haired hunk fronting Skid Row. I hate to put it like this but Brad back then was still making his way as an actor and he wasn’t yet the Brad Pitt, the man of so many people’s dreams,” she wrote [via Entertainment Weekly].

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Years later, she and Pitt reconciled over the situation.

“He agreed that I’d been a kid and though he’d deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row,” she shared. “Of course, Brad is now the Brad Pitt and Sebastian Bach… well, he still has long hair, I guess.”

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