Fiona Apple reveals she quit using cocaine after ‘one excruciating night’ at Quentin Tarantino’s house
Fiona Apple is getting ready to release her first album in eight years, entitled Fetch the Bolt Cutters, while opening up about how she quit using cocaine.
The 42-year-old singer (real name Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart) revealed in an extensive profile in The New Yorker that she kicked the habit after spending ‘one excruciating night’ at director Quentin Tarantino’s house.
At the time, she was dating another director, Boogie Nights and Magnolia filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, and was forced to listen to both of them ‘brag’ about their accomplishments.
No cocaine: Fiona Apple is getting ready to release her first album in eight years, entitled Fetch the Bolt Cutters, while opening up about how she quit using cocaine
‘Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with Q.T. and P.T.A. on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again,’ Apple joked.
Apple and Anderson dated for just over two and a half years from November 1997 to June 2000, but she described the relationship as ‘painful and chaotic.’
She described the director as ‘coldly critical’ while adding he had a bad temper, recalling a time after the 1998 Academy Awards where he threw a chair across a room.
Addict: ‘Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with Q.T. and P.T.A. on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again,’ Apple joked
Critical: She described the director as ‘coldly critical’ while adding he had a bad temper, recalling a time after the 1998 Academy Awards where he threw a chair across a room.
The singer recalled thinking, ‘F**k this, this is not a good relationship,’ and left to go to her father’s house (actor Brandon Maggart) but she ultimately returned to him.
She added that he would whisper mean words into her ear at parties while behaving outwardly normal.
Anderson himself declined comment, and Apple said the director never physically harmed her, but she wanted to end the ‘nostalgia’ fans had about their time together.
Not good: The singer recalled thinking, ‘F**k this, this is not a good relationship,’ and left to go to her father’s house (actor Brandon Maggart) but she ultimately returned to him
Whisper: She added that he would whisper mean words into her ear at parties while behaving outwardly normal
‘It’s a secret that keeps us connected,’ Apple said.
The singer also revealed in the extensive profile that the title of her new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a reference to the Gillian Anderson TV series The Fall.
The phrase is uttered when Anderson’s character, Stella Gibson, finds a lock sealing off a door where a young girl has been tortured behind it.
New album: The singer also revealed in the extensive profile that the title of her new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a reference to the Gillian Anderson TV series The Fall
The album is her first in eight years, since 2012’s The Idler Wheel, though there is no indication when the release date will be announced.
Apple was just 17 years old when her 1996 debut album Tidal was released, with her hit song Criminal winning a Grammy for Best Female Vocal Rock Performance.
She released her second album When the Pawn… in 1999, followed by Extraordinary Machine in 2005 and The Idler Wheel in 2012.
Coming soon: The album is her first in eight years, since 2012’s The Idler Wheel, though there is no indication when the release date will be announced