Rhiannon
A well written and thoughtful memoir on growing up in Hollywood royalty with all the famous friends and relatives that a young woman could hope for and yet still struggling to find her place in the most understandable of ways.
Candid without being salacious, Skye reveals her emotional loneliness and desperation to be seen in a chaotic and discordant lifestyle where she is invariably surrounded by rich and/or famous friends and family, yet always searching for validation. All of which is obviously the result of her father’s complete absence during her childhood and teenage years, and his irksome aloofness in her 20s and 30s.
Whether she’s shacking up with a serial cheater and heroin addict (Kiedis) or blowing up her fairy tale romance with one of the Beastie Boys (Ad-Rock), discovering her undeniable attraction to women, working through her complex and relatable abandonment issues, and succumbing to the very things that her previous partners were guilty of (infidelity, drug use) her famous lifestyle, glamourous as it was, was still very much emotionally relatable to me. Her honesty about her own role in her life is refreshing and frank – she doesn’t shy away from her culpability in her relationships.
Skye is the same age as me, and her emotional ups and downs as a young girl and young woman trying to find her footing and who she is, her self-sabotaging behaviour, even in this glittery world of privilege and precarious existence, struck a raw, nostalgic nerve.
Originally posted at www.instagram.com.
A well written and thoughtful memoir on growing up in Hollywood royalty with all the famous friends and relatives that a young woman could hope for and yet still struggling to find her place in the most understandable of ways.
Candid without being salacious, Skye reveals her emotional loneliness and desperation to be seen in a chaotic and discordant lifestyle where she is invariably surrounded by rich and/or famous friends and family, yet always searching for validation. All of which is obviously the result of her father’s complete absence during her childhood and teenage years, and his irksome aloofness in her 20s and 30s.
Whether she’s shacking up with a serial cheater and heroin addict (Kiedis) or blowing up her fairy tale romance with one of the Beastie Boys (Ad-Rock), discovering her undeniable attraction to women, working through her complex and relatable abandonment issues, and succumbing to the very things that her previous partners were guilty of (infidelity, drug use) her famous lifestyle, glamourous as it was, was still very much emotionally relatable to me. Her honesty about her own role in her life is refreshing and frank – she doesn’t shy away from her culpability in her relationships.
Skye is the same age as me, and her emotional ups and downs as a young girl and young woman trying to find her footing and who she is, her self-sabotaging behaviour, even in this glittery world of privilege and precarious existence, struck a raw, nostalgic nerve.
Originally posted at www.instagram.com.