My recollection of the whole "Ever-Gate" (based purely on memory. I am too lazy to go back and read that thread)
-In 2007, Billy apparently saw some of Devi Ever's work online. They got in contact, and he brought her out to one of the San Francisco shows to talk about her possibly making some custom pedals. If I recall, the "meeting" ended up being a few minutes long. Billy told her he wasn't interested anymore, but liked her pedals and gave her permission to say he endorsed them.
-In 2011, Billy released that video with Kerry of the two of them going through all of Billy's pedals during the Oceania recording sessions. Billy showed the Rocket pedal to the camera, but said something like "we won't be needing that since we have the original pedals we used on Siamese Dream." In all fairness to Billy, it was not a knock on the pedal itself, but just pointing out he wouldn't need it when he had immediate access to all the gear he presumably used to record the song "Rocket."
-A few months later, someone brought it up here, and Devi went on a huge rant about how unprofessional Billy Corgan had been in his dealings with her, how he was out of his mind to dismiss the pedal in that YouTube video, and how she really hated the band post-2007 and thought the show she saw in San Francisco was bad. Ironically, if Corgan had never responded to this, he probably would have come out looking like the better party. He let Devi use his name to endorse her pedals, and flew her out to see a free Smashing Pumpkins show. She responded by ranting and raving about him.
-Of course, Corgan being Corgan, couldn't let well enough alone, and went on the Twitter rant posted above and sent those messages to Devi. She posted a response video in tears. As someone else in this thread said, Devi Ever was hardly the most sympathetic person, but it seemed a little over the top to threaten to batter her sue her for everything she was worth.
As someone else said, it really was miraculous (for Corgan) that no general media outlets picked this up. Admittedly, Corgan was well into his d-list celebrity years by 2011, but it still seemed shocking quite how vitriolic he got and how quickly he resorted to using transphobic language. It seemed even sadder given Nicole, an outspoken advocate of LGBTQ rights, was in the band at the time. Had some news source really ran with it, his career would have been obliterated even more than it was at the time.
Around this same time, Corgan contacted that guy who faked having Facebook conversations with Jesse Corgan (can't make this shit up). In that case, Billy had a right to be mad, but once more used hateful language similar to the Devi messages.
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