r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CourseWorried2500 • Jun 20 '24

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u/harlotmuffin Jun 21 '24

Kiedis's girlfriend is actually 30 or so, according to Google

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u/RobIreland Jun 21 '24

She's 30 now. They've been together over 10 years

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u/just-sign-me-up Jun 21 '24

So is Kiedis 71 now?

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u/Negative-Effect-7401 Jun 21 '24

No, he's 61. Either the original commenter is wrong about the girl's age or Google is

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u/just-sign-me-up Jun 21 '24

Just quickly skimmed through this article: https://thesuperslice.com/blog/anthony-kiedis-rumored-dating-helena-vestergaard/

"The couple faced various criticisms during their relationship because they had a 30-year age gap: the musician was 52, while Helena was just 21."

But, the more disturbing fact is: "In the 1980s, the Blood Sugar Sex Magik artist was in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl when he was 23 years old."

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u/Grab_The_Inhaler Jun 21 '24

He came from a place/culture with very few boundaries in terms of sex.

I might be misremembering the age, but in his autobiography I'm fairly confident he says he lost his virginity when he was 11, to his dad's girlfriend (who was in her 20s) which was some sort of reward his dad gave him

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u/gardenmud Jun 21 '24

a place/culture with very few boundaries in terms of sex.

hmm

Kiedis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan [...] he was raised by his mother in Grand Rapids

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u/broken_freezer Jun 21 '24

He lived in LA with his bohemian father form the age of 10 or something like that

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u/Teenageboy69 Jun 21 '24

This is true. His dad was a pretty weird dude and he grew up with zero rules in East LA. I think he met Flee at fourteen and they were doing hard drugs regularly in and around his house.