Ione Skye has opened up about her two-year relationship with Anthony Kiedis when she was just 16, while he was 24 and a drug addict.
The pair struck up a romance in the ’80s, with the actress, 54, recently revealing that Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman, 62, impregnated her and then paid for the abortion.
She broke down the details of their relationship in her memoir, and has now spoken on It’s A Lot with Abbie Chatfield, calling him a ‘dominating, controlling person’.
‘I think he’s trying to feel powerful,’ she said when host Abbie asked why she believes Anthony has pursued relationships with much younger women for most of his life.
‘He obviously has a huge ego. And so, I think part of it is to feel in control, and powerful, and a dominating type of person.’
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Ione Skye, 54, has opened up about her two-year relationship with Anthony Kiedis, 62, when she was just 16, while he was 24 and a drug addict
‘You know, if you’re challenged by being with someone [your own age]… he just needs to be the dominating, controlling person,’ she added.
Anthony has been linked to several women throughout his life, including a two-year relationship with model Helena Vestergaard when she was 19 and he was 52.
He also shares son Everly Bear Kiedis with ex Heather Christie, who he started dating in 2004 when she was about 18 and he was 41 – they split in 2008.
Daily Mail has reached out to Anthony for comment.
It comes after Ione spoked candidly about aborting Anthony’s baby when she was just 17 years old and admitted he paid for the procedure, but sent her to the clinic alone.
In her memoir Say Everything, released in March, Ione recalled being in a Beverly Hills doctor’s office alone after falling pregnant with the Red Hot Chili Peppers singer – who was a drug addict and 25 years old at the time.
Explaining her decision to not keep the baby, Ione wrote in the book: ‘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 fantasising was different from seeing. I couldn’t see having a baby at this point.’
The pair struck up a romance in the ’80s, with the actress recently revealing the Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman impregnated her and then paid for the abortion: Pictured: Anthony Kiedis & Ione Skye
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She went on to say of Anthony: ‘He seemed to think that by paying for me to have the termination at a nice Beverly Hills doctor’s office instead of Planned Parenthood he was being a mensch.
‘He hadn’t offered to be with me today, just guiltily dropped me off at the curb.
‘To say nothing of the fact that after our AIDS scare, and the supposed new lease on life he’d gotten with the negative test result, he’d gone on using needles and having unprotected sex with me. And I’d consented to that.
‘Other people in our group had unsafe sex and they were fine, I kept telling myself, using my teenage reasoning. Of course, I could see how irresponsible we were being.
‘Whether Anthony could see it too, he obviously wasn’t ready to grow up, to take care of himself and others, to make real adult choices. Anthony wasn’t yet strong enough for all this. But I was the girl – I had to be.’
The London-born actress also confirmed she has no regrets when it comes to the abortion and wrote: ‘I was taking care of myself now, making a choice that felt good and important for my future.
‘I wanted to be young and also to keep working. 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.
‘And besides that, I was depleted enough from worrying about Anthony and worrying what people thought of us and worrying about my career.’
She broke down the details of their relationship in her memoir, and has now spoke on It’s A Lot with Abbie Chatfield, calling him a ‘dominating, controlling person’
‘I was sure that adding a newborn to my list of things to worry about would be the end of me,’ she admitted.
Despite opening up about the relationship in her memoir, Ione confirmed she didn’t talk to Anthony about it beforehand.
‘I stay in touch with his mother, but not with him,’ she revealed to People. ‘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.’
Ione’s father is Mellow Yellow singer Donovan, and she also opened up about their rocky relationship in the book.
But despite the tell-all nature of her book, Ione insisted she approached it with care.
‘I definitely don’t want to hurt anyone. But some people I named in the book have read it, and luckily everyone has loved it,’ she told the outlet.
She also shared actor John Cusack previewed the memoir, where she reveals they slept together years after the film.
‘I had to get it out of my system,’ she wrote, per the outlet, referring to their rendezvous following her divorce from Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz.
And it seems John’s reaction was priceless as he texted her the following message after reading the book: ‘You made the experience sound so meh! It wasn’t “meh” for me.’
However, Ione stood by her portrayal of the incident and said: ‘I’m telling a story, and it was more about how all of our chemistry was in our working together and stimulating each other’s minds, not sleeping together!’
‘I felt a little bad, but, oh well!’ she added to the publication.