FIONA Apple reveals in a new interview that was secretly married in her late 20s to Lionel Deluy.
The Grammy-winning singer says she is still friendly with her ex-husband and almost every other man she has dated over the years, with one notable exception – Louis CK.
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Fiona, 42, is opening up about the men in two rare interviews she did with The New Yorker and Vulture.
“My ex-husband, Lionel Deluy, is a very good friend of mine too. He’s lovely,” Fiona casually mentions in her Vulture profile.
“I was married very briefly to Lionel.”
The singer first hinted at the union in a 2012 interview, but said little else of Lionel, 57, beyond the fact that he was a photographer.
Fiona does not give away much more information in this latest interview either, though she does say that she was “twenty-something” and reiterates that the union “was very brief.”
Lionel may not be a household name, but many will recognize his portraits of Hollywood stars from Angelina Jolie and Kathy Bates to Snoop Dogg and Lil’ Wayne.
He also took many of Fiona’s most recognizable images.
The Sun was able to find a photo of the pair posing with their arms around one another at an event in 2003.
Fiona was almost a decade into her career at that point, and had dated two markedly different but equally famous men prior to Lionel.
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In the wake of her 1996 debut Tidal, Fiona began dating magician David Blaine, 47, who was a member of Leonardo DiCaprio’ infamous posse.
That relationship was brief, but she spent four years with boyfriend Paul Thomas Anderson.
Fiona appeared with Anderson, 49, on red carpets at the Oscars and he directed her music videos for Paper Bag, Across the Universe, Limp and Fast As You Can.
The young couple’s relationship was a bit romanticized Fiona told The New Yorker, due in large part to their critical success.
Anderson released two Oscar-nominated films over the course of the relationship – Boogie Nights and Magnolia – while Fiona released her follow-up to Tidal.
The full title of Fiona’s much-lauded second album was When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won’t Matter, Cuz You’ll Know That You’re Right.
Fiona says that she recognized problems in that relationship early on when Anderson threw a chair across a room after the Academy Awards.
The singer is quick to point out however that she and her beau were equally unbearable at times.
As an example, she recalls one evening the two spent with her parents by saying: “We both attended that dinner as little f***ers.”
When Fiona’s parents asked Anderson what was wrong with their daughter, he responded: “Ask yourself—you made her.”
In the wake of their split in 2001, Anderson began a relationship with Maya Rudolph, with whom he has four children.
Anderson also released a romantic film based on his relationship with Fiona, Punch Drunk Love.
Fiona released an album about her time with Anderson, the notably less romantic Extraordinaru Machine.
The two are still close though, and in 2012 Paul directed Fiona’s music video for Hot Knife off her fourth album The Idler Wheel.
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Another ex who Fiona talks about in these profiles in writer Jonathan Ames, who created the HBO series Bored to Death.
Ames, 56, is still a friend as well says Fiona.
Not Louis CK however, for whom Fiona has few kind words.
“I know he’s got such a great brain and he understands why he did that shit. I feel robbed that he’s not giving us what he thinks about that,” says Fiona, who expresses her shock that the 52 year old began to victimize himself in stand-up sets after he was outed as an alleged predator.
“And the fact that he’s complaining about the money he lost, and that tired joke of, ‘Hey, how’s everybody’s 2020? Did everybody have a great year?’ That was a bad joke when it was done the first time, but it’s not even a joke.”
She also had few kind words for his die hard fans.
“The one thing I will say about that situation is that the women he harassed continue to be harassed by his little bros. By the little Louis bros,” says Fiona.
“F*** you, Louis bros. And fuck him for not even just acknowledging that. And for the record, he didn’t apologize.”
Fiona notes that she does not want to talk about men too much in the profile, which were done ahead of last week’s surprise release of her fifth album, Fetch the Boltcutters.
It has been universally praised by critics, who are near unanimous in their belief that it is the best work of her career.
Pitchfork gave Fetch the Boltcutters a perfect 10, making it one of just 99 albums to receive that distinction and the first since Kanye West’s 2010 release My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
“Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound, a wild symphony of the everyday, an unyielding masterpiece,” began the review.
“No music has ever sounded quite like it.”
The New York Times meanwhile eschewed a traditional reiew and instead assembled all their critics to gush over what they call “a bold, cathartic, challenging masterpiece.”
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