
Say Everything
A Memoir
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Ione Skye
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Ione Skye
About this listen
Gen X icon Ione Skye bares all in an achingly vulnerable coming-of-age memoir about chasing fame, desire, and true love in the shadow of her famous, absent father.
"Yep, Ione Skye wrote a memoir. I gobbled it up." – MIRANDA JULYIn 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye landed 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 was a ninth-grade dropout who sought solace and validation in the eyes of audiences and dreamy 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 the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 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 along with it.
Set against a 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 a lyrical reflection on ambition, intimacy, and a messy, sexy, unconventional life.
©2025 Ione Skye (P)2025 Simon & Schuster AudioCritic Reviews
"Yep, Ione Skye wrote a memoir. I gobbled it up. She’s just really honest and detailed and heartfelt which really only works if you have heart, and she so obviously does. You want to know her, hang out with her, cuddle with her in a way that maybe leads to more, even if the relationship ultimately is more like sisters (this kind thing happens a lot with all the people you would love to be brothers and sisters with, following hooking up.) The biggest shocker (for me) was JUST how bisexual she is" – MIRANDA JULY
"Deeply personal, riveting, and funny, Ione has created an emotional diary that feels like a song you never want to end. As an actor and as a writer, her honesty is unforgettable.” —CAMERON CROWE
“Ione Skye’s unflinching memoir embodies the grit of Eve Babitz mixed with the enchanting guilelessness of Alice navigating her way through the most illogical wonderlands of them all: Hollywood. Ione tells her story of grappling with primal abandonment, love and heartbreak with compassionate candor and a true visual artist’s recall of detail. As the title states, she really does say everything and left me wanting even more.” —MOLLY RINGWALD
“Always charming and witty, Ione was in the center of my nineties LA.” —SOFIA COPPOLA
“Ione Skye has always been a bit of a mystery; beautiful, elegant, and artistically accomplished in various realms of the arts. It was a pleasure to read her engaging book.” —CRISPIN GLOVER
“Ione Skye captivated an entire generation as a new kind of ingenue—idiosyncratic, almost vulpine, and a fascinating fixture of LA lure. But this book proves that even though she was on everyone’s screen (and wall) she had more to say than anyone else’s work could contain. And that the most fascinating, funny and ferocious version of events was her own.” —LENA DUNHAM
I listened as an audio book, which I like to do when I’m “reading” a biography. I enjoyed Ione’s reading and especially liked her occasional chuckle. I felt like she was enjoying recalling some of her outrageous shennanigans.
As an Aussie, I do have a sense of familiarity with Ione, like we could run into each other in a Sydney street and we’d say hi. I love that she’s married to a fellow Aussie, particularly Ben, as even though I don’t know him, I feel sure he is the kind man she deserves.
What a life! As a fellow Gen Xer, I loved hearing about all of the pop culture in my own life.
Ione writes beautifully. I admired her as an actor, but didn’t realise how much of a creative she is in other mediums.
I really do hope we run into each other now, so I can tell her in person how inspiring her openness is.
Wow. Inspirationally brave to bare all.
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Loved it
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Honestly so good and beautiful to listen to her sincerity
Felt so in those moments and in that time 😊😊
Raw and sweet
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Loved it
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Stunning and powerful
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Honest, raw and touching
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Iconika, Ironika, Ionika! Frankly, my dear, Ione really DOES Say Everything ...
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Beautifully told story
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Beautiful & interesting
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Honest portrait of a life that could have been in any industry.
The known and unknown
characters in her life story were equally interesting.
Her humble reflection on the part she played in events in her life was refreshing.
It took me back to the 60’s when my father played ‘Catch the wind’ by Donovan her father.
Loved it
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