Vogue Williams calls out Anthony Kiedis for dating 19-year-old when he was 50
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers musician began dating Helena Vestergaard in 2013

The musician started dating Australian model Helena Vestergaard in 2013, and they split after being together for approximately two years.

Before that, Kiedis, now 63, had a relationship with Heather Christie, who was 22 years his junior. When the pair welcomed their son, Everly Bear, in 2007, Kiedis was 44 and his partner was 21.

In the latest episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me, Williams and her co-host Joanne McNally discussed age-gap relationships, with the former I’m a Celebrity campmate saying: “Do you know who else I find really disappointing, because I really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Anthony Kiedis.”

Seemingly referring to his romance with Vestergaard, Williams continued: “He is like 54 or something, and he is going out with a 19-year-old. And it is like, ‘Dude, what are you talking about?’”

McNally replied: “I’ve seen this. I just accept now that most men, all men, are drawn to – I’m going to be very careful how I say this – significantly younger women. That’s all I’m going to say. It is what it is and I don’t think there’s any getting away from it. We judge it but it’s not going to change.”

“I would have to say that it is not all men,” Williams continued. “Because I do think it is a very specific thing.”

Addressing why younger women might decide to date older men, McNally added: “And of course, people like him [Anthony Kiedis] and rockstars like him can get away with it because no 19-year-old girl wants to be going out with some old lad who is driving a Toyota Corolla around town.

  • keiko@fedia.io
    12·
    1 month ago

    From the comment explaining the guy and the event, (again, unless I’m misunderstanding) he did not initially know her age and did not assume that she was a minor. That does not seem to be a pedophile to me.

    I’ve actually got past comments that touch on this subject

    Idk what that means.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      “The next day we drove to Baton Rouge, and of course, she came with us,” Kiedis wrote. “After we got offstage, she came up to me and said, ‘I have something to tell you. My father’s the chief of police and the entire state of Louisiana is looking for me because I’ve gone missing. Oh, and besides that, I’m only 14’.”

      Kiedis continued: “I wasn’t incredibly scared, because, in my somewhat deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love with me, he wasn’t going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one more time.”

      In 1986, Kiedis began a relationship with the actor Ione Skye, the daughter of Donovan, who was just 16 when they started dating, which meant she was a minor in the state of California. At the time, Kiedis was around 24, and the two stayed together for several years.

      In 1989, in a separate incident, during the band’s Mother’s Milk tour, Kiedis was convicted of sexual battery after a show at George Mason University. According to the accusation, he exposed himself and touched his crotch to a woman’s face against her wishes.

      https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/red-hot-chili-peppers-singer-anthony-kiedis-uncomfortable-truth/

      This is who you are defending.

      • keiko@fedia.io
        12·
        1 month ago

        I’m not defending him. I’m discussing your views and the meanings of the words you use. You conflate things which are not the same and you definitely have misplaced hate.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I have past comments where I express support for non-offending pedophiles.

      He said in his memoir that after he learned she was 14 years old, he “had sex” with her again.

      • keiko@fedia.io
        13·
        1 month ago

        I have past comments where I express support for non-offending pedophiles.

        Then they seem hollow with the other things you’ve said in this thread.

        He said in his memoir that after he learned she was 14 years old, he “had sex” with her again.

        That doesn’t negate what I said, which involves his intentions.

        • velma@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          He raped that 14 year old girl. Intentions don’t matter when you’re an adult taking advantage of a child.

          • keiko@fedia.io
            13·
            1 month ago

            The intentions do matter, because rather than a pedophile specifically seeking out a prepubescent child, it reads like a guy who thought she was 18 and then (selfishly, yes) did it with her again after she told him. That’s not comparable to child-predators who knowingly seek out children.