Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis has dozens of stories that may surprise you. His unconventional lifestyle started at an early age when he moved to Hollywood to live with his father full-time at the age of 12.
Kiedis’s father sold substances, and they would often use them together. The future rocker even accidentally tried heroin for the first time at 14 as he thought it was cocaine. His life in the following years was unorthodox, as expected. The musician wanted to write a storybook about his childhood memories, especially his drug use.
The project later turned into an autobiography named ‘Scar Tissue‘ and was published on October 6, 2004. The memoir is filled with unbelievable stories like losing his virginity at the age of 12 with his father’s then-girlfriend, seeing Cher naked, and the time he broke his back. One of the most unexpected facts in the book is that the RHCP frontman was in love with vocalist Sinead O’Connor and the two had a passionate love affair for a while. But if you ask O’Connor, this is complete nonsense.
Anthony Kiedis Thinks He Had An Affair With Sinead O’Connor
According to ‘Scar Tissue,‘ Anthony Kiedis and Sinead O’Connor first met at a festival backstage in 1989. The RHCP singer was in awe of O’Connor’s performance and her beauty. He said this made him fall in love with her almost instantly.
Kiedis started thinking about O’Connor all the time. He said he ran into her in the streets of Los Angeles, and they started having a romantic affair and shared a kiss. If you ask the Red Hot Chili Peppers icon, he was ready to marry Sinead. But she dumped him. This heartbreak inspired Kiedis to write ‘I Could Have Lied.’ Talk about passionate love.
Sinead O’Connor Denied Having A Relationship With Anthony Kiedis
Kiedis says he was madly in love with her and their breaking up was incredibly shattering, but Sinead O’Connor doesn’t think that way. In fact, she denies that the romance happened at all, let alone having a turbulent breakup.
During an interview with Uncut Magazine back in 2013, O’Connor was asked about her relationship with the Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist. She revealed that it’s true that the two hung out for a while, but it was far from a romantic relationship. According to her, Kiedis thought that O’Connor was head over heels for him. But that wasn’t the case.
She felt things could never work between them when Kiedis gave her and her son Jake a lift to the hospital when the three-year-old wasn’t feeling well. Sinead considered this a kind move, but the rocker later blew things up by trying to hit on her while they were at the hospital.
In her own words, O’Connor said:
“Ah, dear old Anthony from the Chili Peppers, or Walter Mitty as I call him. He claims there was some romance between us, which is absolutely untrue. I hung out with the guy for a few weeks. He thinks he’s God’s gift to women, and I think he had it in his head that I fancied him, which I utterly didn’t. One day, Jake, my son, who was then about three, was very ill, and Anthony gave us a lift to the hospital, which was very kind of him.
Then, inside the hospital, Anthony made a bit of a pass at me. I thought it a bit inappropriate to grope me, given that I was distressed and upset about my son, and I did lose my f*cking head at him. And, as for his claims that he kissed me, it must have been some other bald b*tch, ’cos it certainly wasn’t me. I’d have to wash my mouth out A LOT if I did anything like that, for f*ck’s sake!”
