Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman called out over 31 year age-gap with 19-year-old
Vogue Williams has called out Anthony Kiedis for his former and current age-gap relationships, comparing it to speaking to a child about school.
According to Williams, Kiedis has been a bit Red Hot silly when it comes to his girlfriends and she made it clear that she finds the tales of his love life 'really disappointing'.
Kiedis, like many others in the world of Hollywood, has faced criticism for having relationships with someone far younger, and Williams was keen to bring up the fact that he dated 19-year-old model Helena Vestergaard when he was 50 years old.
He is currently dating Eileen Kelly which represents an even larger age gap, as he is now 63 and she is 31, and despite her defending that relationship in a recent article for Vogue, the celebrity with the same name clearly isn't on board.
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Speaking on the My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast, she said: "Do you know who else I find really disappointing, hasn’t broken the law, but really disappointing cause I really like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Anthony Kiedis."
Her co-host Joanne McNally chimed in: "I just accept now that most men are drawn to significantly younger women. That’s all I’m gonna say. It is what it is. I don’t think there’s any getting away from it.
"We judge it, but it’s not going away, it’s not going to change."
Vogue wouldn't buy it however and suggested that having such a large age-gap in a relationship will always be baffling to her because of the lack of things in common with someone so much younger.
She added: "What am I going to talk to, let’s say, a 16-year-old about?
"How was school? Did you have fun in school with your friends? Did you get your new pencil case? It’s September coming up…"
Although most would argue that the age gap with the 19-year-old was controversial because she was so young, there seems to be less anger about his relationship with Kelly, who only just turned 31, despite it being a larger gap between the two.
Joanne concluded: "It’s rock stars like him that can get away with it because no 19-year-old wants to be going out with some ale lad who’s driving a Toyota Corolla around town, d’you know what I mean?
"They want to be going out with a millionaire rock star who’s going to treat them like a princess and they’re going to have a gorgeous life and he’s cool. He’s in the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
It does seem as if the break-up between Kiedis and Vestergaard did hit Kiedis hard after two years of dating, as it actually inspired him to write some emotionally-fuelled lyrics for his album The Getaway.
He said: "Lyrically, I’m embarrassed to say, a 2-year relationship that completely fell apart like a nuclear bomb, just left me feeling pretty raw and available to the emotional universe for writing.
"So even though the relationship was a bit of a disaster, I feel that in some way, I did get something out of it, which was about half the songs on this record," he told BBC Radio at the time.
Kiedis, of course, isn't the only name in Hollywood to be part of a significant age-gap relationship, as Courtney Stodden married Green Mile actor Doug Hutchinson when she was just 16, while we also have famous faces such as Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Sarah Paulson who have married women far older than them.
LADbible has contacted the reps of Anthony Kiedis for comment.
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James Moorhouse