Say Everything

A Memoir

By: Ione Skye

Narrated by: Ione Skye

In this instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Gen X icon Ione Skye shares her “delightfully juicy” (People) and achingly vulnerable story about chasing fame, desire, and true love in the shadow of her famous, absent father.

In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye skyrocketed to fame with the breakout role of Diane Court, the dream girl who inspires John Cusack’s iconic boombox serenade in the hit Cameron Crowe film, Say Anything. While Skye seemed perfectly typecast as an aloof valedictorian, she was anything but.

Deserted by her dad, the folk singer legend Donovan, Skye dropped out of school in ninth grade and sought validation through her Hollywood career, working alongside iconic costars like Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Matthew Perry, John Cusack, and Robert Downey Jr. But like her sixties It Girl mom, Skye’s greatest weakness was musicians.

On the heels of a toxic relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers’s frontman Anthony Kiedis, which began when she was just sixteen and he was twenty-four, the actress leapt into wedded bliss with her first great love, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

But marriage was not the magical hall pass to adulthood Skye had imagined. Awakening to her bisexuality and desperately insecure, she risked her fairytale marriage for a string of affairs with gorgeous nineties “bad girls.” The dream marriage imploded, and Skye’s trust in herself and her future went with it.

Set against the backdrop of rock royalty compounds, supermodel cliques, and classic late-century films like River’s Edge, Gas Food Lodging, and Wayne’s World, Say Everything is a wild ride of Hollywood thrills as well as lyrical reflection on ambition, intimacy, and a messy, sexy, unconventional life.

Critic reviews

"First known for her iconic role as John Cusack’s love interest in SAY ANYTHING, Ione Skye speaks candidly of her acting career, the Hollywood scene, and her love interests. Her voice has an enthusiastic and captivating tone as she tells listeners about her life’s journey, starting with childhood and moving to her years as a high school dropout and how she became the woman she is today. Skye tells fascinating stories about the entertainment industry and her celebrity connections, which Gen X listeners will especially love. Her openness about her complicated relationships with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ lead singer Anthony Kiedis and Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz is particularly alluring. Skye is conversational, warm, and expressive in her racy and offbeat memoir."

Love love

young love and its tales and trists. I love it and the way she tells her journey

Amazing!!!!

Was completely pulled in until it was over. Love her even more for her open honesty and ability to share what she has learned in life.

So well written!

This memoir was fantastic. Ione didn’t try to gloss over her life. She shared wonderful, poignant, memories; but was candid about mistakes she made, and how she grew from them. I would recommend this book to anyone, but it’s especially nostalgic and resonant for a GenX-er.

she said everything

one of the most eloquently written memoirs. the details in her stories were so vulnerable and raw. almost as if she were my friend and we were sitting together in real life. loved everything about this audiobook.

Great story & storytelling

Story is extremely interesting and inspiring. Especially for young creative women finding their way in this world