{"id":17643,"date":"2025-12-19T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:38","slug":"tera-wray-statics-former-roommate-issues-statement-in-support-of-matt-zanes-unauthorized-wayne-static-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17643","title":{"rendered":"TERA WRAY STATIC&#8217;s Former Roommate Issues Statement In Support Of MATT ZANE&#8217;s Unauthorized WAYNE STATIC Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ZANE.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17644\" style=\"width:520px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ZANE.png 501w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ZANE-300x248.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Jay&#8217;e Jones<\/strong>, a Joshua Tree\u2013based tattoo artist and former roommate of the late&nbsp;<strong>Tera Wray Static<\/strong>, widow of&nbsp;<strong>STATIC-X<\/strong>&nbsp;frontman and founder&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Static<\/strong>, has released a public statement addressing&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>&#8216;s controversial and unauthorized documentary project. The statement, originally shared publicly by&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>&nbsp;via his official&nbsp;<strong>Facebook<\/strong>&nbsp;page, was issued by&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;in what she describes as an effort to honor the clearly expressed wishes of both&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Static<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera Wray Static<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am only sharing the following because I feel a responsibility to honor the wishes of my friends&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Static<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera Wray Static<\/strong>,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>, she spent significant time with&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>&nbsp;during the final years of their lives and was present for numerous conversations regarding their desire to create a documentary chronicling their lives together.&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;emphasized that&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>&nbsp;was not a casual or incidental choice. &#8220;They were excited about creating a documentary with their close friend&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They trusted him. They believed in his vision. They chose him. This was not a fleeting idea, it was something they discussed repeatedly and with genuine enthusiasm.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;explained that following&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Static<\/strong>&#8216;s passing,&nbsp;<strong>Tera Wray Static<\/strong>&nbsp;became even more dedicated to the project. She preserved music, personal recordings, and deeply meaningful materials with the intention that they would be used in the documentary&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>&nbsp;was meant to create. When&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>&nbsp;later moved in with&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>, she ensured he knew exactly where those materials were kept and who was entrusted with telling their story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the time, I thought it was odd how adamant she was that I knew those details,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;said. &#8220;In retrospect, I believe she wanted to make sure their wishes were honored if anything ever happened to her. After her suicide, which was traumatic and shocking, I took that responsibility extremely seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following&nbsp;<strong>Tera Wray Static<\/strong>&#8216;s death,&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;states that&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Static<\/strong>&#8216;s parents contacted her requesting all materials that belonged to Wayne, including music and personal items.&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;immediately complied, delivering everything in a single box, and also passed along information regarding&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>&#8216;s original intention to use portions of that material for a documentary project with&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>. &#8220;After that, it was completely out of my hands,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years later,&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;agreed to participate in what she believed to be the original documentary project, believing she was continuing to honor&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>&#8216;s wishes. She says it was deeply unsettling to later learn that&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>&nbsp;was no longer involved and that the narrative was being reshaped without regard for those original intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I understand people have strong opinions about&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>, and their past,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;stated. &#8220;But I want to be absolutely clear about one thing:&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>&nbsp;wanted&nbsp;<strong>Matt Zane<\/strong>&nbsp;to tell their story.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;emphasized that&nbsp;<strong>Zane<\/strong>&#8216;s current documentary is the only project that reflects&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>&#8216;s original intention to tell their story honestly, including both the joy and the struggles, through someone who knew and loved them as a friend rather than viewing their lives as a narrative opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t about choosing sides,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;concluded. &#8220;It&#8217;s about respecting&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tera<\/strong>&#8216;s wishes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jones<\/strong>&#8216;s statement arrives amid ongoing objections from the&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Static<\/strong>&nbsp;estate regarding&nbsp;<strong>Zane<\/strong>&#8216;s unauthorized documentary. Despite the opposition,&nbsp;<strong>Zane<\/strong>&nbsp;has remained firm, stating publicly, &#8220;This will not stop me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the month,&nbsp;<strong>Zane<\/strong>&nbsp;claimed that he had received a cease-and-desist letter from&nbsp;<strong>Wayne<\/strong>&#8216;s estate and family regarding&nbsp;<strong>Matt<\/strong>&#8216;s plan to go ahead with the documentary. The legal notice arrived just days after the family made clear they were prepared to take action to halt any unapproved production. In a statement, the family said they &#8220;strenuously object&#8221; to&nbsp;<strong>Zane<\/strong>&#8216;s plan to make the film, explaining that they are &#8220;not interested in the further development of any unauthorized biography or documentary.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crowdfunding campaign for the documentary is now live on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/en\/projects\/mattzane\/wayne-static-tera-wray-documentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IndieGoGo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay&#8217;e Jones, a Joshua Tree\u2013based tattoo artist and former roommate of the late&nbsp;Tera Wray Static, widow of&nbsp;STATIC-X&nbsp;frontman and founder&nbsp;Wayne Static, has released a public statement addressing&nbsp;Matt Zane&#8216;s controversial and unauthorized documentary project. The statement, originally shared publicly by&nbsp;Matt Zane&nbsp;via his official&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;page, was issued by&nbsp;Jones&nbsp;in what she describes as an effort to honor the clearly expressed&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17643\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TERA WRAY STATIC&#8217;s Former Roommate Issues Statement In Support Of MATT ZANE&#8217;s Unauthorized WAYNE STATIC Documentary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17645,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions\/17645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}