Ash Pournouri’s authorized group characterised the manufacturing of Avicii: True Tales as “unethical and biased.”
Ash Pournouri, the previous supervisor of Avicii, has accused the director of 2017’s True Tales documentary of unethical conduct after alleging the filmmaker recorded the DJ in psychological misery with out providing help, in accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by EDM.com.
The claims surfaced in a file of 138 paperwork filed in December 2025 with the Stockholm District Court docket as a part of Pournouri’s contentious civil lawsuit to “set the factual file straight” relating to his function in Avicii’s 2018 suicide. The actual doc containing the allegations in opposition to the filmmaker, Levan Tsikurishvili, is marked as Case No. T 24718-25, Exhibit 4.
Pournouri’s authorized group asserts that Tsikurishvili didn’t intervene whereas Avicii, whose actual identify was Tim Bergling, appeared visibly unwell. “Whereas Ash was not current, Levan was evidently bodily there throughout filming as Tim expressed misery about his situation, but selected to movie slightly than act,” the submitting states.
The intensive submitting challenges narratives established by True Tales, which many interpreted as implicating Pournouri within the circumstances resulting in Bergling’s tragic dying at age 28. The doc describes the movie’s manufacturing as “unethical and biased,” claiming that Pournouri was by no means given the chance to view or remark earlier than its launch, regardless of formal requests from his legal professionals. Non-public appeals to Bergling’s father, Klas, to appropriate the general public file additionally allegedly went unaddressed.
Pournouri’s attorneys additional claimed that the documentary underwent a number of variations previous to its last 2017 lower, which they allege contained varied “inaccuracies” and diverged from earlier footage shot in 2014 when the previous supervisor and Bergling have been nonetheless collaborating. The submitting argues that “intentionally manipulated edits” created deceptive impressions that blamed Pournouri with out direct proof.
The civil case stays ongoing. As of this writing, Avicii’s property has not issued a public response to Pournouri’s claims.
