Say Everything Author Ione Skye

Air Date: Monday, March 10^th  

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Drew on Living with Ione Skye at Frank Zappa’s House

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Drew: I idolized you like when we were living at the Zappa House, Frank Zappa, the famous musician. We, you were good friends with Moon Unit.

Ione: Yeah, my brother, I think went on a couple of dates with Moon and it turned into a friendship, and then he was going over to the Zappa house and I wanted to go and then finally one day he called me and said, why don't you come over? Moon and Dweezel, or, you know, friends and then after that I was there every day.

Drew: That was kind of my experience I somehow I got brought into the house through Ahmet, her younger brother, and I didn't leave for a few years.

Ione: Yeah, we all just like stayed there. I mean it was so fun.

Drew: It was like romper room.

Ione: And we didn't know what was gonna happen and it was like there was so many like spiral staircases and it was the most you couldn't, I never got to know the whole house.

Drew: Yes, it was like Frank would sleep downstairs and he slept all day and then worked all night and his recording studio was downstairs. I think I saw it once.

Ione: I know it's amazing. One time he came out with us to see a movie and Moon and Dweezel were like, ‘Do you know how unusual this is to be out on the day with Frank doing something?’

I was like, oh my God.

Drew & Ione on Hanging with Jack Nicholson at a Nightclub and Being There at Young Ages

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Drew: We hung out at Helena's the nightclub.

Ione: Yes, I remember that.

Drew: Which was the best. I mean, it was literally everybody you could ever imagine.

It was like Sean and Madonna would walk in and Jack Nicholson, oh yeah, I used to party hard with him.

Ione: Yeah, it was it was fun. I mean it was like a great group of adults actually and it was sort of, I'm sure our mothers were friends with them.

So it was this weird crossover that club was kind of like, you would have the adults and I don't know why I was, I was there, but yeah.

Drew: I was there starting, I mean, at least like probably 8, 9, 10.  Like I, I mean, I was in clubs.

I had my 10th birthday at a nightclub. And I think what's so interesting when I think about the book is that there were relationships we had with all of these people some our age mostly weren't and yet they were our peers, they were the people who felt right to us and it's like you could look at that and be like, oh, that seems crazy and inappropriate or wild, but it didn't feel like it at the time. There was nobody talking about age number appropriateness. It was a hedonistic wild Hollywood world.

Ione: It's true. And when, when we say it was a different time. I, when I say that, I don't mean it meant that everything was always kosher, but it was so, that's just what it was. And now it's just sort of different.

Drew: Nothing would have flown today that was happening when we were kids.

Drew & Ione on Their Relationships with Their Fathers and Ione on Seeing Her Dad Now

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Drew: Because I finally connected with my dad later when he was like dying of cancer and I was like, I'll take care of you and I felt like I got to have this very healing time with him.

Ione: I met my dad when I was 17.

Drew: I didn't know that. I just assumed you and Donovan knew your dad who was a very famous singer, Donovan, the Donovan.

Ione: And having these poetic fathers who were you know, beautiful people and other people knew my father more than I did and listening to these gorgeous songs as a teenager and I was just like, like where is this for me like it really did my head in a bit but it's not that I don't I think it's right like I wish he could have done more but I just for some reason. I don't know. I still wanna kind of get to know him while he's still around.

Drew: Can you?

Ione: Yeah, I might see him in April. He's in Ireland if that works out. If, if hopefully it’ll pull out things from the book and whatever, but he's, he's you know.

Ione on Writing Her Book Because of Social Media Comments

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Drew: It was social media that actually was a really awesome catalyst for you writing this.

Ione: That's right. That's right. So yeah, yeah, there was a celebrity sort of podcast, celebrity book club, I believe, and these two women were saying how could Ione's mother let her be with Anthony, you know, a junkie when she was 16, 17. And so with this podcast, these girls are saying how could your mother let you and I thought, well, I wanna like clap back or whatever the kids call it and I just did a sort of like, well, she really was upset like she and my brother were like sick to their stomachs. Of course they liked Anthony and felt badly for him, but I, let's just say like I'm happy I know Flea and Anthony. I wish I met them 15 years later and maybe just been friends with all of them and not, you know what I mean, because I love them.

Drew: It would be so nice we could go back in all of our lives and redo everything.

Ione on Her Relationship with Beastie Boys Adam Horovitz

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Drew: What was that like, even though I would get glimpses of it. So did not feel like I was in the inside, but you were.

Ione: I mean those guys had just, well, they had the license deal that was their big thing, but now they were doing.

Drew: They changed the world.

Ione: It was so fun…they, yeah, they really, really, they're so talented and amazing. That was like heaven for me because I'd been in this hard relationship with Anthony which was very heavy, and he, he was a heroin addict and he cleaned one year he was doing it and the other year he was like AA whatever but that year was stressful too because he was going through so much anyway. So when I met Adam it was like just like a savior so warm, sweet. The Beastie Boys felt so like fun and light compared to the Chili Pepper scene at that time and it was like one of the best times for sure of my life.

Drew: There was a time I think that a lot of self-expression came in and something I related to with you was trying to figure out like what is fidelity, what is monogamy? Why do we commit to people? What does that look like? How does it function? I mean in some ways now thinking about it it's like we were kids playing house but reading and like seeing about how you talk about your Journey into like being with people like sexually speaking and I was like, OK, I was wild and free. I had a lot to figure out and I was like, oh my God, someone's talking about this.

Ione: Yeah, I mean, I wanted the marriage and I, it turns out I do like marriage. Like now I'm married and I've, I've worked so hard to like get there, but I'm, you know, older now. I wanted it all back then. Like I wanted everything. I wanted to be married and then I what we we were like college age and some college age people are not married. They're experimenting and they're being free, but I was sort of like I could do this. I can play house, but nothing was going to stop me as happy as I was in my marriage and as much as I wanted that security, and it was such a safety against the world and we were both working and,

Drew: You wanted a permanent man in your life.

Ione: I did and I wanted and I was couldn't help but be free.