by Ione Skye
First published 2025
Ione Skye lands her breakout role as Diane Court in Say Anything at sixteen, but success cannot fill the void left by her absent father, folk legend Donovan. A ninth-grade dropout seeking validation, she finds herself drawn to costars like Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, and John Cusack. After escaping a damaging relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, she marries Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, believing marriage will solve her problems. Instead, awakening to her bisexuality and battling deep insecurity, she begins affairs with nineties "bad girls" that destroy her fairytale union. As her marriage crumbles, so does her faith in herself and her future. Moving through rock royalty compounds and supermodel circles during the making of films like River's Edge and Wayne's World, Ione must confront her patterns of seeking love in all the wrong places.
Genres: autobiography, contemporary, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, self-discovery
Period: 1980s, 1990s
302 pages · Kindle Edition · HarperCollins
Content warnings: addiction, depression, sexual-content