In her new memoir “Say Everything,” Ione Skye (known for her role in the 1989 film “Say Anything”) opened up about her past relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis – who she started dating when she was just 16 and he was 24.
Skye recently told People that her relationship with Kiedis is actually what inspired her to tell her life story.
“These girls on TikTok were saying things like, ‘How could my mom let me be with Anthony?'” she said regarding how their past romance has come under scrutiny on social media in recent years.
“And I sort of clapped back, not in an aggressive way, but I was like, ‘Well, my mom was really upset that I was with a rockstar like Anthony Kiedis.’ And I don’t know, I kind of started feeling like I was able to tell my side of the story, and I had a lot to tell,” she explained.
In the book, Skye details their relationship and how Kiedis’ heroin addiction complicated things. She also reveals that at 17-years-old she became pregnant and decided not to keep the child – a decision she describes as a painful one.
“I was the type of girl who’d wanted a baby since I was a baby, who used to fantasize about finding a swaddled infant on my doorstep or catching a flying ghost baby with a butterfly net … But fantasizing was different from seeing,” she wrote in the book. “I couldn’t see having a baby at this point.”
While she admits that she should have been more careful, she does not regret her decision.
“I was taking care of myself now, making a choice that felt good and important for my future,” she writes. “I would not have a baby at 17, with someone who didn’t want to be a dad, wouldn’t commit to me and had anger issues. Not to mention the heroin.”
In “Say Everything,” Skye also writes about having affairs while she was married to Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, exploring her bisexuality, doing drugs, and settling down with her husband, musician Ben Lee, who she shares a 15-year-old daughter with.
Despite many of the people she mentions in the book having had a chance to read it before it was published, she didn’t talk to Kiedis about it.
“I stay in touch with his mother, but not with him,” she says. “I’m very curious about what he’ll think — he and my father. They’re the ones I’m most nerve-wracked about. But everyone who has read it says it’s a good read.”
