So like I said before Ive lived in LA/Hollywood for almost 4years and I know you all watch TMZ and hear the stories of celebs doing this that and the other and let me tell you first hand almost all of it is true. Ive stayed up all night with starlets, musicians, comedians and actors of whom are household names. I wish I could give you their names but to keep it interesting im just going to keep you guessing.
My best friend Audra and I came to LA for a visit at the tender and impressional age of 19 with a hometown friend of ours who was a CRAZY, insane, impulsive drug addict (may he rest in peace). The flight and the adventures getting to our hotel room on the Sunset strip is a whole other story for a whole other day. We arrived at our hotel at around 11pm on a Saturday night, we were staying at the Grafton on Sunset next to the Mondrian where the Sky Bar lounge is located. Now growing up in a small farming town 40mins outside the city of Pittsburgh you only hear and see these places on MTV. One of the main things we wanted to do was go to the Sky Bar where Pdiddy had filmed one of his music videos, the only problem was A: we weren't old enough and B: we knew NO ONE. Now both Audra and I had terrible fake ID's but we decided hey, what do we have to lose and walked confidently up to the door of the Sky Bar and asked if we could come in. The guy at the door was young and started flirting with us and to our luck happened to be from a town not to far from ours back home, he was hesitant but let us in Audra and I were thrilled we were in awh at the people whom surrounded the outdoor bar, everyone was dressed in amazing clothes and it was easy for us to be approached for drinks within the first few minutes of being there. The funny thing is the 2 people we ended up hanging out with ended up still to this day being 2 of our closest friends and also mentored and helped us throughout our first year in LA. Audra was THRILLED that she got to meet the red head from "The babysitters dead" movie and we ended up drinking the night away with a well known "dboy" and a very famous "fashion designer" after the Sky bar closed they invited us to an after hours club called "xeni" a very exclusive private after hours spot that you had to be invited to. Inside we saw almost EVERY celeb doing things that they would not want public, Audra and I were in heaven we couldn't believe what we had walked into within our first few hours in the state of California.
Skip ahead 2days, we moved hotels from the Graftin in Hollywood to the Hilton in downtown LA. I remember this day all too well. There was a raging pool party on the rooftop that particular day and Audra and I got all dressed up and went up to mingle. A few mins after we got there we were approached by 2 boys. They told us that there was going to be a birthday party at the House of Blues for the ones brother. We asked who his brother was and his answer made Audra almost go into convulsions. Ill give you a hint as to who he was, he was a VERY popular child star from the early 90's he played in a movie EVERYONE has seen and his best friend, who recently passed away had the same name as him. So anyway there was NO way in hell Audra was not going to this party. Even though I was a bit worried about going with these boys I agreed and off we were, YES we got into a car with 2 strange boys we didn't know and headed to Encino, a lesson I learned all too well was a VERY bad idea.
WARNING: DO NOT GET IN A CAR WITH PEOPLE YOU DONT KNOW IN HOLLYWOOD, we are actually both very lucky we weren't raped and dumped into the ocean, this is not something I am condoning nor proud of.
After these boys persuaded us to take ecstasy pills, which at the time I had never done at their house we were off to the House Of Blues in Hollywood, the party was and is a complete blur all I really remember is meeting Ron Jeremy and thinking how incredibly short the birthday boy was. Audra was on cloud 9, not only because of the ecstasy but because the man she so adored was totally into her, well, him and his wife were totally into her. Not knowing that thing like "swingers" existed I was totally weirded out and wanted to go back to the hotel, the boys however wanted us to go to an after party at his brothers house and promised he would take us back in a few hours, us being "newbies" believed these two sleaze balls and went to the party. We walked into the house and looking back now it seemed like it was straight out of a porno only a few pictures on the walls, white couches trimmed in gold and fake light pink and purple flowers in vases adorned the coffee table and fire place mantel, and the activities that were going on in the house well, it looked like one was being made, I had never seen anything like this and I was totally freaked out, the drugs made it even worse and all I wanted to do was lock myself in a room. Audra was having a ball, I guess she took to the drug better than I did, see im a very observant person Im always watching my surroundings and the people around me. I tried to pull Audra into another room and tell her I wanted to go but she was having the time of her life with "the birthday boy" and everyone else, soon everyone decided it was "time for bed" and I was so relieved when someone showed me to my own room. I got into bed and my mind was racing but my body was exhausted I had no idea where Audra was but everyone assured me she was fine. As I started to doze off I felt someone crawl into bed with me, it was "the birthday boys" brother and I wanted nothing to do with him, I told him I wanted him to take me and Audra home immediately, he pretended to be too drunk and left the room and as I realized in the morning the house as well (what an asshole). I somehow fell asleep and woke up in a complete panic and had no idea where I was, I immediately started crying and ran to find Audra, she was pacing around the master bedroom in a robe with a toothbrush in her mouth that was lighting up red and purple (so weird) I grabbed her and asked her if she was ok, she was still semi out of it and said she was fine and had a lovely time. I gave her a blank stare. We collected cab fair from "the bday boy" and his wife and Audra had explained to me on the way home what had happened, now Im not going to tell you all of the details because thats up to her but I'll tell you one thing, ecstasy is one HELL of a drug for my dear friend Audra and she now liked the "birthday boy" and his wife equally.
In the years to come we still stayed in touch with these people, if fact Audra and "the birthday boy" still talked frequently and hangout up until she had found a boyfriend, they would spend nights in her bed drinking big gulps and chain smoking Marlboros.
Let me give you a HUGE piece of advice here ABSOLUTELY DO NOT go to an after party with people you don't know, once youre in that house you are vulnerable to whatever they feel they want to do. DO NOT take drugs or alcohol from people you don't know nor have never met, Audra and I both could very well have died that night and no one would have known where or how, you have to be VERY careful as to whom you trust and in this town it's NO ONE but yourself and your best friend.
But at the end of the day I laugh pretty hard about that night, it was my first experience with drugs and what REALLY goes on behind the closed doors of Hollywood it definitely is sex, drugs and RocknRoll. Now that Im older I would never be in that position again but I guess if it benefited in anyway, it makes for great reading.
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