[專訪] The Sun 專訪 AK
大致上是說小Everly的出生改變了AK與老爸的關係。
畢竟大家都知道Blackie不是一個"普通"的父親。
不僅是演員還是毒販，帶著小AK吸毒跟破處。
最後AK的真情告白很感人，AK很難過他一直找不到與他共度餘生的女人。
因為大家已經給他貼上標籤，每個人都認為AK就是"那樣"的人，
所以就對他預設了立場，讓AK無從著力，而他說他並不是那樣的人。
看了好難過 :(
John也結婚了，只剩AK孤家寡人，希望他能找到他的真命天女！
http://anthonykiedis.net/2011/08/anthony-kiedis-interview-in-the-sun-uk/
My son Everly changed my life.
Our relationship makes me forgive my father…
Says Anthony Kiedis
S the frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the world’s biggest band,
Anthony Kiedis was also the wildest hellraiser in rock ‘n’ roll.
At 11, he lost his virginity to his dad’s 18-year-old girlfriend, first
injected coke at 14 and nearly killed himself after driving his mum’s car
into a tree at 90mph while drunk, leaving him with a smashed skull, a broken
eye-socket and “looking like a plate of spaghetti and meatballs”.
Kiedis, a sex-obsessed heroin addict for years, was once fined more than ￡
1,200 for sexual battery and indecent exposure after a female student claimed
he’d dangled his privates in her face in the dressing-room after a gig.
But today, the 48-year-old sex symbol says his only addiction is his
three-year-old son Everly Bear and that the youngster is keeping him on the
straight and narrow.
Although clean of drugs and drink since 2000, Anthony says: “As every heroin
addict will know, temptation is always there. But becoming a father has given
me a reason to live and stay clean for good.”
Anthony first tried to quit drugs in 1988 after losing the band’s original
guitarist, 26-year-old Hillel Slovak through a heroin overdose, but relapsed
five years later.
He says: “Every day since has been a battle to stay clean, but my son makes
me thankful that I am. I feel very lucky.”
And the star says his lad – named after one of his favourite bands, The
Everly Brothers – also impacted positively on the Chili Peppers’ latest
album, I’m With You.
He says: “Having Everly has changed my life. You can hear the new energy I
have, we have, on the new album.”
Becoming a father has meant Anthony has reflected on his relationship with
his own dad, actor and Hollywood drug dealer Blackie Dammett, born John
Kiedis.
Not your average father, Blackie supplied drugs to and partied with rock
stars including Led Zeppelin and The Who’s Keith Moon, movie icons and other
celebrities, exposing Anthony to sex and drugs from a young age.
Just three years ago, the 71-year-old told a BBC documentary: “It wasn’t so
unusual that I let him take a little bit of acid, or a little bit of
marijuana.”
Anthony’s parents split when he was three and at 11 he moved from Michigan,
where he had lived with his mum Peggy, to LA to live with his father. Just a
few days later, his dad offered him his first joint of cannabis.
Then one night just before his 12th birthday, he arranged for Anthony, who
was high on prescription drug quaalude, to lose his virginity with HIS
girlfriend, an 18-year-old called Kimberly, in HIS bed.
But Anthony is forgiving. He smiles and says: “I know whatever my father
did, in his own way, he still loved me.
“Even though we don’t communicate as fluently as I do with my son, he still
has the same feeling for me that I have for my boy. And I should be a little
more patient.”
Renownd in the industry for being a difficult interviewee, Anthony is
surprisingly good-humoured, telling stories about how Everly is a bundle of
energy and keeps him on his toes and laughing at how his young son also likes
to sing.
He says: “I don’t know what songs he’s got in his head but he likes to
make some noise!
“The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my
father and also appreciative.
“Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my
father was very attentive and a great educator.
“He just didn’t have the same tools I have today and there was no way he
could have acquired them at that point in time. So, yeah, I forgive him for
his mistakes and I thank him for giving me so much of his time and energy.”
Anthony says reading Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road
– charting the journey of a man and his young son in a post-apocalyptic
world – made him more understanding of his role as a father and of his
relationship with his dad.
“I read that book within a month of my son being born which was quite
magical for me and blew my mind,” Anthony explains.
“It teaches you never to take a single thing for granted.
“There’s just an apocalyptic hell to survive through and you feel the love
of that father for his son. Even though there’s nothing much to live for,
except caring for someone.
“I love my son and will always be there for him and I know that’s how my
dad feels today about me.”
Anthony admits he still struggles to find the right woman and properly settle
down.
He split with Everly’s mother – model Heather Christie – in 2008 and
although he has dated some of Hollywood’s most beautiful women, including
supermodel Heidi Klum, actress Bijou Phillips and film director Sofia
Coppola, he has found it difficult to get close to someone special.
He reveals: “I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I’m a
certain type of person – which I’m not.
“It’s been hard. I meet people and they say things like ‘I’d never go out
with someone like you, I know who you are’. But they don’t know who I am.
“I run into that a lot with people and so the tragic thing in relationships
is that I never get a fair shake because of that preconceived idea of who
people think I am. So I’m trying at all costs to avoid the pitfall of having
the relationship based on ideas formed from my past.
“I hope someone can open their mind and rediscover who I really am rather
than who they think I am.”
After 28 years with the Red Hot Chili Peppers – during which they have sold
more than 65million albums, Anthony calls them “my other family”.
I’m With You is their first album in five years and Anthony is happy to be
back with the band.
He says the year ahead will be a happy one with “lots of touring but enough
breaks to allow them time to enjoy it and not get burned out”.
Anthony also admits there was some heartache in making this, their tenth
album, when he lost a close friend, an event that inspired track Brendan’s
Death Song.
It was written about Brendan Mullen, the owner of LA club The Masque, who
died suddenly after suffering a stroke in 2009. Anthony says: “He was a very
good friend and an important guy.
“All the LA punk kids who were disenfranchised from other forms of music at
that time and wanted to tap into this other kind of music went to his club.
“He facilitated that and promoted it. That was his nature – to embrace
cutting-edge music and give it a place to exist. So he was greatly admired
and a very humble guy.
“He was the first person to listen to a Chili Peppers demo tape and he gave
us our first gig. So we loved him for giving us that opportunity and it was
the beginning of a long relationship. We miss him terribly.
“But through the dark times there has been plenty of joy and that’s why now
life is all about celebrating.”
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