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Yahoo
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Actress Ione Skye recalls the night that her ex-boyfriend, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, learned that guitarist Hillel Slovak had died of a heroin overdose
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On June 25, 1988, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak died at home in Los Angeles as the result of an accidental heroin overdose. Slovak, who was a founding member of the Californian punk-funk band, was 26. At the time, Slovak's best friend, Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, was dating Hollywood actress Ione Skye, perhaps best known for her starring role in the film Say Anything, as well as her acclaimed performances in films such as Rivers Edge, The Rachel Papers, and Gas Food Lodging. Skye recently published her revealing best-selling memoir, Say Everything, and in it she recalls the fateful night that she and Kiedis learned of Slovak's death. Skye knew that Kiedis was a heroin addict when she began dating him as a 17-year-old. So when the singer's friend Bob Forrest, frontman of cult LA band Thelonious Monster, phoned the couple's home on the evening of June 27, 1988, "crying so hard that he couldn't get words out", Skye originally feared that the call had been made to share bad news about her boyfriend, who had gone out that evening to see his drug dealer. Recalling the horror of the night in her memoir Skye writes: 'What is it?' I said. 'Is it Anthony?' It was Anthony, I knew it. He'd gone to meet his dealer and hadn't returned. 'It's Hillel,' Bob sobbed. 'They found him at his place…' "Bob hung up," Skye recalls, "and I stood in the dark, holding the empty phone till I heard Anthony rev into the driveway." When Kiedis didn't immediately come into the house, Skye went out to his car, and found her boyfriend "hunched over in the front seat, a plastic THANK YOU shopping bag crumpled next to him." The sight initially made Skye think that Kiedis was shooting up heroin, but the singer was actually just writing in his notebook, working on potential lyrics. Skye urged him to come in immediately to phone Bob Forrest back. "I couldn't be the one to say it," she writes. "Anthony dialed the phone, his warriorlike shoulders slowly curling around the blow of Bob's news," Skye continues. "Then he straightened, hung up, grabbed the THANK YOU bag, and strode to the bathroom. "You're doing that now?" I said, following him. "Anthony whipped his head toward me with a look so anguished that I understood. "Of course he was shooting up. He'd just lost his best friend. Who wouldn't numb that blow if they could?" Red Hot Chili Peppers later paid tribute to their friend's tragic passing with the song Knock Me Down, on their 1989 album Mother's Milk. This was the first album that the band recorded with their new guitarist John Frusciante.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Cybersecurity engineer who injected his dying fiancé with meth to 'balance her out' after a heroin overdose goes MIA after cutting off his ankle monitor
An I.T. worker who injected his dying girlfriend with meth to 'save her' from a heroin overdose instead of paying $800 for an ambulance has gone on the run. Amy Bowden, 26, was found dead at her Redwood Park home in Adelaide 's north-east on February 8, 2024. Ethan Ross, now 29, pleaded guilty to one count of supplying/administering a controlled drug, namely methamphetamine, earlier this year. He was released on home detention bail to a Salisbury address in January. Ms Bowden's parents received an email on Tuesday informing them Mr Ross had fled his bail address. The Victim Support Unit of the Department for Correctional Services told Ms Bowden's mother, Michelle Sposito, her daughter's ex-boyfriend had cut off his ankle monitor, which had been used to track him after his release on bail. 'Please be advised that Ethan Ross has removed his electronic monitoring device and his location is unknown,' the email, seen by The Advertiser, said. 'We will advise you when we hear of further updates.' Ms Sposito said she and her husband Bryan Bowden are frustrated that they were only told about Mr Ross going on the run days after he cut off his ankle monitor on Friday. 'What more can we take? We have no idea where he is or what he's capable of doing,' she said. 'Now he's on the run. It was hard enough hearing he'd even been released on bail in the first place but now this? It's only adding to our anxiety.' Mr Ross disappeared just days after he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching his bail conditions in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court. It's not clear what those breaches were, but for each count he was released without further penalty and ordered to pay court costs and the victims of crime levy. He was then released back onto home detention bail on Thursday. A day later he removed his ankle monitor and went on the run. After Ms Bowden's death, it was revealed her boyfriend injected her with methamphetamine after she overdosed on heroin to 'balance her out'. Ross (left), now 29, pleaded guilty to one count of supplying/administering a controlled drug, following his girlfriend's (right) death Last year, the court heard that Mr Ross messaged a drug dealer to drop off meth after Ms Bowden overdosed on heroin. 'On the afternoon of the 7th of February, he messaged a person asking for meth so he could 'shoot her with it' and 'pick her up',' prosecutors told the court. 'He makes references to the deceased taking smack, and reversing a downer with an upper. He asked for a point of meth.' Originally from Victoria, Ms Bowden had recently moved to Adelaide from Melbourne, where she was studying pharmaceutical sciences at RMIT University. She was about to start the third year of her degree in biochemistry and pharmacology.
