Celebrity News March 22, 2017
Katey Sagal’s Shocking Revelations About Gene Simmons Affair and Drug Use
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In her new memoir “Grace Notes: My Recollections,” Katey Sagal reveals she had an affair with Kiss frontman Gene Simmons.
Sagal and Simmons reportedly met at a Santa Monica bar, where she worked as a singing waitress in the 1970s. She wrote, "At first, I thought Gene was really weird. I took him home with me that night because he was quite persuasive, and I like men.”
According to the former “Married with Children” star, who even recorded backing vocals for Simmons' 1978 debut solo album, the affair lasted for a few years and ended when she told him that she was going to marry Paul Butterfield Blues Band bassist Freddie Beckmeier.
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After the book was released, Gene's daughter Sophie slammed Katey for her revelation, telling “Allegedly with Theo Von & Matthew Cole Weiss” on Tuesday, "To write about someone and then have it affect their family, I feel like is a really kind of low place to sell a book. I mean, congrats to the one groupie who thought they got ahead, but apparently didn't.”
Aside from her on-again, off-again relationship with Simmons, Sagal also opened up about her 15-year-old battle with drugs. The 63-year-old reflected on her childhood in Los Angeles, citing it as one of the factors that led to her drug addiction. "When I was 12, we lived on the same block as Judy Garland. Her daughter Lorna Luft and I became neighborhood buddies. Lorna's mom had a lot of pills on her bedside table and slept past noon just like my mom. We hung tight. And, of course, I thought everyone's mom took a lot of pills.”
