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.

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[–] 108 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

I'll never miss an opportunity to shit on Anthony Kiedis. But no one did it better than Mike Patton, so let's just relive one of the most epic public fuck yous in musical history.

In the late 90s, one of Mike Pattons many acts, Mr Bungle, was on tour opening for RHCP. Patton believes it was due to them putting on such a hard to follow set that Kiedis kicked them off their tour stating that they were "Trying to rip off his style."

What followed was, well, this. Mr. Bungle Halloween Show dressed as RHCP. Pattons way of saying "If I wanted to rip off your style I'd do it like this." In the video their bassist, dressed as flea, can be seen miming injecting a syringe into his arm. Their guitarist, dressed as Frusciante, can be seen snorting invisible cocaine off the keyboard.

Patton decided the final piece of his revenge was to get back to the studio with Mr. Bungle. He hired out fucking John Zorn (Saxophonist for Zappa) to produce their new record. They titled it "California" and released ~5 weeks after RHCP released "Californication" as a final statement, to say something to the effect of "THIS is my style. RHCP doesn't have style to rip off, you're an easily replicable pop act."

If you've never heard "California", you owe it to yourself to make it your next full album listen. It is truly one of the best records of all time. Mike Pattons range is frightening.

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    [–] 66 points 1 month ago (17 children)

    If you want to continue to enjoy the music of your childhood, never look into the personal lives of the artists who made it. It will make you very sad/angry

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    [–] 56 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    From Kiedis’s Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kiedis ):

    Kiedis acknowledges in his autobiography Scar Tissue that he had sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was 23, before and after learning of her age, in the 1980s. This inspired him to write the song "Catholic School Girls Rule"

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    Kiedis had a relationship with actress Ione Skyein the late 1980s starting when he was 24 and she was 16.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Insane.

    We put a dude from my hometown in prison for doing that shit.

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    [–] 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    If you read his book, he has done much worse.

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    [–] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Its better than in was in the 70s just about every musician was dating 14 years olds...

    *barf

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    [–] 34 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    meh, she's of age and consenting. I'm more upset about the time he raped a 14 year old.

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    [–] 33 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    This is not music, it's gossip.

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    [–] 20 points 1 month ago (24 children)

    Damn I don't know what it is about Lemmy, but it just brings the pedophiles out of the woodwork. This comment section is bleak.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Yeah, seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people? A 60 year old sniffing around teenagers and young 20 year olds are creeps and sleezebags. It is not laudable, nor is it "evolutionarily normal", it is a power imbalance. We are humans, not base animals. We can choose to be better.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    For all the free will people purport to have, there are so many people who would much rather not have a choice and wrap themselves in deciet to defend their abhorrent behaviour, rather than actually just choose to be better.

    Perhaps everyone is coasting so hard they don't even comprehend that they can choose

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    The sexism and pedophilia openly embraced on Lemmy almost pushed me away completely when I first came here. I'm trying to be the change I want to see here instead.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I haven't seen that, personally, I have found the majority here to be rabidly against those things. I was made aware of this particular pedophile right here on lemmy maybe a year ago and stopped listening to their music

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 month ago

    A very similar conversation about Steven Tyler happened in the lemmyshitposting community that was appalling. There was an incredible amount of defense for pedophiles there, similar to this thread, except those comments were highly, highly upvoted and supported.

    The sexism I have experienced first hand. You should see some of the DMs I get.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I've literally seen not one thread on the topic in which pedophile lovers don't come out of the woodworks. It's important to remember that a lot of people are on this website because they were banned from Reddit, some of whom for good reason.

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    [–] 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    19yo women don't have agency, apparently.

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