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Say Everything

A Memoir

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Say Everything

By: Ione Skye
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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 JULY

In 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 Audio
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"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

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I found Say Everything to be just as the title said it would be. Ione saying everything. I was taken aback by how open Ione was with her story so far, especially knowing that she has daughters at a similar age to her when this story starts. How could she be so open without fearing her daughters knowing it all? Without being shameful? I found it to be completely brave and I want to know how can I be like that?

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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This was a really great book. I’m so glad I listened to the audio book version. It was great hearing Ione read it. Highly recommneded.

Loved it

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Loved reading about this awesome and relatable girl in a time when I was same age
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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Great story, narrated by author Ione, finished in one sitting. Gen X here, loved hearing about your amazing life.

Loved it

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Ione this was the most perfect story of a vulnerable powerful Gen X woman. Everyone should hear what you have to say

Stunning and powerful

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Loved this book, it had everything I enjoy about an autobiography and more. It doesn't disappoint.

Honest, raw and touching

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Involving, both e- & pro- vocative; emotional, ironicly humourous, sometimes startlingly naive & frequently, unexpectedly searingly frank. Wonderfully directed, drawing out Ione's charming, self-deprecating joy, before hitting hard with a genuinely startling twist in her story, or a rawly-related, devastating event, she seems to take you by the hand to walk beside her, as she recalls the people, events - but mostly relationships - that have made her the woman she is. It is of course crowded with celebrity, but it hardly feels like the mandatory list of honorable/dishonourable mentions, and is never mere story-padding, when this has been the genuinely OG & Nepo Kid-rich milieu since her very conception, then upbringing, profession - entire existence. It's a truly memorable memoir, especially for her contemporaries, most familiar with her film personae. Intriguingly it has eschewed the temptation for a performative-heavy delivery, opting for a personable accounting and hence her funny, eccentric, questioning and Big Feelings are intimately shared for us to lean into, flow with, be carried along by - or not! - thus revealing her innately quirky charm that always manages to uplift beyond the heavier subject matter - and quite audibly, her own exhaustion, as she remembers it for us. In this, Ione's book differs notably from that of her fellow Child Artist with whom - on the outside - one could say she has a MOTZA in common: the ubiquitous Drew Barrymore, whose narrative offering of her own memoir is exuberantly 'acted' throughout. I was so surprised by Ione's story - as much as by her telling of it - that I finished it in one willingly sleepless night, letting her whisper her truths to me under the covers - as she did with her own friends - keeping me on the woke side of sleep, with an occasional chuckle, a quick burble of joy gurgling up while she higgled at herself, or a funny moment, that I came to look forward to all the more for it's unexpectedness - just like this book.

Iconika, Ironika, Ionika! Frankly, my dear, Ione really DOES Say Everything ...

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Such a great story. Even without the famous characters, this is a story that is a warm and heartfelt account of a woman growing up in the same way so many of us have grown up. Loved it!

Beautifully told story

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I devoured this book. So many themes that many women can relate to, told with a sweet kindness. Lovely voice to listen to. I put my earphones on every morning & went about my morning routine while listening.

Beautiful & interesting

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Well written book.
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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