She was the first child of a psychotherapist mother and a father who managed the Grateful Dead. Her godfather? Phil Lesh, the band’s founding bassist. And by the way, her parents met at a party held for Dizzy Gillespie in 1963.
Her family tree is a fascinating tangle of Cuban, English, Irish, German, and Jewish roots, with connections to novelists and screenwriters. She was even named after a character from a 1950s novel, foreshadowing the dramatic life story she would one day write herself.
According to her mother, our star showed signs of brilliance from an early age: “Her imagination was fabulous — she was always making up plays and stories. She had an amazing, creative, artistic energy.”
”I was actually doing a lot of children’s radio, and I was going to the Ashland Shakespeare festival camp for children that we have in Ashland, Oregon every year. So I knew a lot about acting as a child – I wanted to be an actress – I also wanted to be a rock musician – so I wanted both things,” our icon wrote in her memoirs.
Father gave her drugs
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