What is TheDirty.com? It was/is a shitty site. As Reputation.ca post states, it was/is a site where anyone could post a person’s name and some horrible accusations about their character. I am not surprised it is down now, but this is what the internet spawns. Anyone can post anything online. It’s like the wild west in a lot of regards, and MeToo and Cancel Culture use that fact just as badly (if not worse) than a site like TheDirty.com does/did.
It shows what a big role social media and the internet have in society. Something I am touching on as I write this site.
Fans Having Sex With Rockstars
Erin is the woman that was posted about on the website TheDirty.com in 2013.
She alleged that she had had a quick brief sexual encounter with Matthew Good in a hotel room. Someone posted about her on the TheDirty.com site.
She was 21 at the time that happened.
If you missed it – you are like most – it was only really known about in the hardcore fan circles. Music gossip. Musician do they gossip or what!
And on fan sites, like the Near Fantastica website at that time and it was brought up again in 2021 (screenshots noting it below).
But it was a big deal, as Matthew Good was married to his second wife Raeleigh at the time. It nearly ended things for them. Raeleigh filed separation proceeding in 2014.
Of course Matthew denied the encounter. Some time later the post on thedirty.com web site was deleted. Someone in the Near Fantastica forum comments suggested they were the MG fan that had the page removed on his behalf. MG’s marriage went on.
Two sides to every story… and then there is the truth.
Erin’s version is she began communicating with Matthew Good and felt uniquely special, she was 18. She says. And was naïve about his intentions due to her young age – and that very random communication went on for a total of 3 years!
Between 2010 and 2013. When she was 18-21 years of age. Still legal by Canada’s Age of Consent laws – but the power dynamic of a musician and fan is questionable.
So a man talking porn and suggesting sex with you, doesn’t show his intentions? That part is hard for me to wrap my head around, but I suppose some women at age 18 are naive?
I don’t get the impression Erin was incapacitated, by her age or mental health, at the time. She knew what she was doing in her description of the events. She even publicly stated she was willing to do anything with her “FAVOURITE ARTIST OF ALL TIME” and she has to live with that.
Erin says Matthew Good claimed to have an open relationship. Which, to be fair, sounds like something he would say!
However I believe that – the open relationship statement – that gives a woman a way of making excuses to do what she wants, when she morally knows it is wrong.
Erin knew the rockstar was married. She knew and met with him anyway.
Some time in the weeks after August 15th, 2013 – she met him at a hotel. Erin says an executive suite, but no hotel named or exact date given. After the sex, Matthew rushed out of the room and left.
Then a week later “a friend” of Erin’s posted the info and her picture on The Dirty website – but she didn’t learn of it until a month late when Matthew Good warned her about it.
Websites – A Reflection of our Society
TheDirty.com post in 2013 set off a chain reaction, Raeleigh (Matt’s 2nd wife and mother of his children) went on a mission to find Erin.
Erin claims, phone calls to Erin’s family ensued, reports were made about her mental health and she was checked on by police, and of course, Matthew denied their sexual encounter.
On January 6th, 2021 Erin posted her version in the Facebook VOMG Group and someone shared it to Twitter – which is where I first saw this.
(That Twitter account is now gone but I am leaving the link.)
Her post was no longer actually on the Facebook group site, when I was accepted in on March 12, 2021. I got them from the internet – anyone can currently see these images on Tumblr.
Her Side
So from Erin‘s detailed post the following is her account of events:
- 2008 Attends Matthew Good concert
- 2010 Winter – Says she wins Meet & Greet (for when?)
- Is she wrong about the year here… **
- 2010 Claims personal emails via ‘fake’ email from Matt
- 2011 Attends Matthew Good concert
- (Only dates in Vancouver in December 2011) **
- 2013 August receives DMs because of Twitter post
- Talks/emails for few weeks during Aug 2013 and then,
- 2013 August 15th, Matt performs at the Calgary Fundraiser
- 2013 End of August meets Matthew at a hotel for sex
- 2013 September says she is told about TheDirty.com site
- 2013 Raeleigh and Matthew denounce her as mentally ill
- 2014-2015 “Sharon” fan says she removed the Dirty.com post
His Side
Matthew Good’s version is that Erin is a mental health patient, and that it was Erin that posted about herself on that Dirty website – for the attention.
Matthew Good claims he never had sex with her.
However you slice it, her story sounds dramatic.
Was Matt telling the truth, was Erin mentally unwell and made the entire thing up?
Or – Did he email her on and off for 3 years leading up? Did she post it herself? Did a friend of hers? I don’t know the truth. There has been zero evidence to back any of Erin’s claims leading up to TheDirty.com post. Only they know the truth. I can, however, believe Matt had sex with her and that he denied it, to cover his tracks to his wife Rae at that time. Sounds like his MO. Sounds like what he did over and over to so many young female fans. This is the only individual I have questions about what really happened.
Victims Facebook Group Side
When I joined the public FB group Victims of Matthew Good in March 2021, I was accepted in by Erin.
She was one of the 2 Admin of the group at the time – Erin and Kim. Hayley was not one. At first I thought that was odd, given Hayley’s public statement, I had assumed she would be one.
Literally – Erin made me a Moderator of the group – 3 days after I was accepted in. She was looking for help to run the place and assigned several others – not just me – as moderators.
The powers of a Moderator vs Administrator are posted here. Admins have the full power, to delete the entire Facebook group. Moderators do not. Moderators can however delete every post and every member in the group except the Admin(s).
March 15th, 2021 post by Erin asking for help in the group, and you can see me asking what to do as Moderator. You can see here she is all ready having issues at home because of her involvement.
You can see my final comment is 100% the purpose – is to feel safe there. Which is why, when I later uncovered that the Admin account that created the Facebook group was allegedly hacked and no one there cared – it seems incredibly odd.
To Share or Not
Erin was very open about her mental health issues. In posting this information about the events of 2013-2014 and TheDirty.com situation – I weighed it out and given how many times and how many places Erin had posted her story, I don’t think this post is telling anything more than she all ready had shared. These images of her story are on the Tumblr site to this day.
It was also her sudden disappearance from the Facebook Group on April 7, 2021 that triggered me into asking some deeper questions about that group. Those questions lead to the events of April 11 – 12th, 2021 and me wondering who is Kim? – and just what all that is really about.
Erin seemed to understand she willingly met up with a married man. She seems to now understand she deluded herself into believing whatever her idol told her. However, she does have every right to be pissed about being lied to, and the treatment she received by the entire Good family at that time – if her version of the story is truth. I tend to believe her story. It rings true to me.
I think it goes to show, Social Media web content – even this site – is not how you go about reporting abuse or serious crimes, but they can be used for the greater good, for exposing bad behaviour.
Cancel Attempt Failed
In September 2023, Erin reached out to me personally, because a third party had contacted her about my website – that person (a fan girl) was attempting to shut Regretful Groupies down. The fan girl complained to my hosting firm. The hosting company only wanted 3 pages revised on this entire site – which at the time had just under 40 posts. I spoke with my retired lawyer friend again. In response, I have made sure all last names, where potentially problematic, have been removed even if they were aliases in some cases – and this was above and beyond the hosting firm request – and my hosting firm is happy with the site.
Erin was informed me she is fine with this information being shared.
Updated October 14th 2023, Uploaded January 11, 2022