Down the Drain

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Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. Sadiq Khan effigy chosen to burn on bonfire night gets town's seal of approval as 'brilliant choice because. The former dominatrix was heading to a book party to celebrate her memoir, Down the Drain — which hit shelves earlier this month on October 10. She was enrolled in Catholic school, which went as well as you might expect (among other things, she discovered that two girls who sat behind her in class were “keeping track of the colour of my thongs in their notebook”). It’s like you’re releasing your rage onto ahuman punching bag – and they love it, that’s the plus side!

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Back in New York and out on the town, Fox and a friend get so drunk that when a bunch of men kerb crawl and offer them booze, they get into the car and end up the next morning out of it in a motel with blacked-out memories of the night before. Open grade books were supposed to be a bridge between teachers and parents, but often it’s more like disruptive missed-assignment push notifications. There's a sense that much of this narrative is fictionalized and glossed over -- and for good reason, as you'll find a majority of these stories are pretty unflattering for all involved, and not to its detriment -- but everything is well-told and dishy.

So when I was eyeing purchasing this book, it had also come to my attention that Spotify had started including audiobooks on premium. A friend of Fox’s had been working on a film that no one in their circle thought would amount to anything. Let grief, rage, or need slip for even a moment and it can be used to cast you as unwell and therefore unserious. At 12, she and Trish, her best friend, persuaded a sketchy tattoo artist to give them tattoos and nipple piercings.

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Now the book is finally out in the world, over 18 months after Fox announced that the “masterpiece” was in the works on the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscars party, and the details of the many lives she’s lived – tearaway teen, dungeon dominatrix, acting ingénue, celebrity girlfriend to name a few – are out in the world. Fox is ararity in aworld of carefully curated celebrity; she’s brutally honest, frank, funny and hardcore.

A hunger for chemical experimentation led Fox to become ensnared in drug use – most notably heroin – and she suffered a near-fatal overdose at the age of 17. It was really fun, I think it made for a good read, but ultimately I don’t want to live my life like that anymore.

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You could join Fox in splitting hairs between “famous person” and “celebrity,” the latter of which, she suggests, requires a level of intention. This turned out to be from “a billionaire with a private jet [who] wants to take us to Art Basel in a few days!Julia Fox is eating amouthful of vegetable soup, sitting by herself in acorner of the posh Ham Yard Hotel in Soho, London. Fox claims that West insists on approving what she wears every time they meet; his assistant even hauls her into a restaurant toilet to change after Fox arrives for dinner with West in an outfit he doesn’t like.

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Written in a confessional, first-person voice, the book races through Fox’s scrappy childhood between the streets of Upper East Side’s Yorkville and a slower pace of life in Saronno, the Italian town where her mother originates. Fox and Liana adjourned to Teterboro airport, boarded a private jet with an “intoxicated rich guy”, and his bro-y sidekick.I’ve overdosed more times than Ican count, and I’ve lost the two closest people to me in my life to overdoses. It’s a cause that’s very near and dear to my heart, my best friend in the world [Shazam] is a trans woman and I was by her side during the transition. But Fox is here to promote her new book, Down the Drain – the long-awaited autobiography first teased in aMarch Instagram post. I didn’t grow up in a home that had warm, feminine energy, so I’m very interested in cultivating those spaces. she asked, and she says he lifted his head enough to slur, “You wanted to pee on me” before passing out again.