Actor Ione Skye, known for her breakout role in the 1989 film “Say Anything,” sees fans behind her charming and raucous Hollywood life in a new memoir entitled “Say Everything.”
In her memoirs, the 54-year-old actress looks back on the journey that began when she was 15, starring alongside Keanu Reeves in “The Edge of the River,” before sharing the screen in a film in which the Phoenix River, Matthew Perry and John Cusack cement their status as teen idols.
“When I look back at the photos, I can hardly incorporate younger figures,” Skye said.
The memoir also details her relationship Red hot chili peppers Frontman Anthony Kiedis began when she was 16 and 24.
“I liked the idea of this dangerous, dark prince rock and roller,” she writes, but her perspective has changed over time.
“It shocks me, and I feel bad for myself too,” Skye said. “I’m happy to know Anthony Kiedis and (bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) flea, but I hope we met in 10 years and didn’t date them.”
Kiedis struggled with heroin addiction during their relationship. When asked why she stayed, Skye said, “I thought I had to save him.”
The actress later married Adam Horowitz of the Beastie Boys at the age of 21. Skye said the end of this relationship in particular will be difficult to look back further in more than 25 years.
“I discovered I was writing this book. It was very clear that I am not a bad person in sadness. I have no trouble with loss at all,” she said. “I still feel it hurts. I can’t even hear the Beastie Boys song. It feels like death to me.”
She said she feels that pain comes from hurting “sweet people” as well as hurting themselves.
Many of Sky’s memoirs explore how her relationship was shaped by the absence of her father, Scottish singer Donovan Leich.
“Lising his beautiful music was sometimes very painful because it’s hard to see someone doing beautiful art and thinking, ‘Where is it for me?’,” she said.
The book reveals a disturbing chapter when Skye was already a successful actress when Reich’s lawyer sent a letter requesting her father’s test.
“I couldn’t believe it,” she said.
In the end, Skye opposed taking his father’s test. Sky says he didn’t see his father until just before his 18th birthday.
“It was strange. I was really self-conscious about what I think we were hugging, thinking that we were the first time we were touching,” she recalled. “The sad thing is I wanted more. Yeah, I just, I’m still. I wanted to see him again.”
Skye receives another revelation when she breaks up with her fiance designer David Nett, who is pregnant.
“I was in the shower, I was pregnant, I sobbed, because it was so stressful. And I thought my mother was in the shower in 1969 and was pregnant,” she said. “It’s a very direct repetition of the pattern.”
Currently living in Australia with her husband, musician Benly and family, Sky says she shares the same unique experiences as her early fame.
“When we were teenagers, our careers were really big, so we both had to deal with the ups and downs of continuing our careers,” she said.
Five years ago, Skye took his family to visit his Irish father and stepmother. She also found connections with her father through her role in the film “Zodiac,” which features one of his songs.
Looking back at the completion of her memoir, Skye called it a “act of self-resistance.”
“I was very proud and it felt like I had learned a lot about myself,” she said. “I felt it was a bit whipped for a long time, but I settle in a nice place.”
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