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Sebastian Król condemned the passage glorifying violence in Marco Wanda’s book in an Instagram post. The publisher and management previously tried to appease the former Wanda Booker. Now the author himself has spoken out in the comments column.
In his literary self-portrait, published in mid-2025, Marco Wanda describes violent fantasies towards a colleague at his former booking agency. Król, who now works at BACKSEAT PR, recognized himself in the character described and took a stand on Instagram.
There he shared four sildes in which he stated “it is clear” that the passage meant him and explained that he found it difficult to be confronted with the lines. He also criticized the reviews of “That We Ever Existed” from well-known media, which praised the book but ignored the fantasies of violence and torture.
Sung murder fantasies and depictions of torture
Specifically, due to a “busy tour schedule,” the band was already “facing a long series of murderous fantasies on the journey [Firma]” sung. There are also “drawings depicting torture” that Wanda’s father keeps “collected in a folder”. These included “imagined torture,” ranging from “hot embers” to “stakes driven through the body.” There is also said to be a “device” that can be recognized as a “medieval rack.”
“That’s how I was” – reply from Marco Wanda in the comments column
In his response to Sebastian Król’s post, the Wanda frontman explained that the former booker would not be mentioned “by name” in his book. In the drawings, the band “symbolically depicted an employee” – no one in particular was meant. He also made it clear in his work that although he and his colleagues had blamed the booking agency for their “state of exhaustion at the time”, the booking agency was not responsible for it.
He deliberately included the “vile fantasies” in the book so that fans would begin to critically question their idols. Wanda acknowledged both his positive and negative qualities in his commentary. On the one hand, he was “kind, polite, empathetic” at the time, but on the other hand, he was “cruel, prejudiced and angry”. Finally, he addressed Król directly: “I’m sorry that you feel hurt, even though you’re not named or meant.”
A reaction from Sebastian Król to Marco Wanda’s statement in the comment column on his post on the BACKSEAT PR Instagram channel is still pending.