Cherie Currie - Post Runaways Interviews

Cherie Currie of The Runaways doing some post Runaways interviews about her life and drug addiction.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

she had an awesome voice for a 15 year old. I love the ch ch ch sound on cherry bomb.

[@lovesick7104]

@Lebo leigh Leigh Shut up you old fart

[@davidleerothlovesme2777]

@Lebo leigh Leigh I would like to take this chance to say fuck u 🤗

[@jm-rf7kl]

@Coy Leigh I used to like Cherry Bomb, but you're right, it is ridiculous. 15 year old child dressed like an adult film "star" singing about flaunting parental authority and how she'll make you sore. I smell a Fowl rat.

[@Tessmage_Tessera]

@@jm-rf7kl People weren't as sexually repressed in the 70's, as compared to today.

[@gollywogholly]

She's so honest. Takes responsibility for her drug taking. Good on her. Makes a difference from all the famous people blaming everyone else for it. Glad that she came out on a note, bless her. I love her. Loved her in the runaways. Love her now.

[@MacBjorn]

She figured it out on her own early. Self intervention is pure wisdom

[@brimichelle6271]

She seems so sweet and classy.

[@thetommyknockerman7193]

Anyone who is a fan of Cherie or the Runaways should read Neon Angel. There's a part in the book where Cherie is literally dying on her feet from cocaine. It's mentioned in this video but she quite literally was dying. She did "narrowly escape" death. By mere weeks. Very good but also very intense book. I'm glad she managed to get away from that. Strong woman.

[@waynej2608]

Yes, I read it, and it is scary. Poor Cherie really had some heavy shit to deal with. Being raped by a lunatic, for starters. Glad she got into recovery. A great woman, with beauty and spirit and rock and roll grit.

[@shadylee1745]

Shes a ridiculous idiot.

[@thetommyknockerman7193]

@@shadylee1745 Learn to spell correctly if you want to call someone an "idiot", sweetheart. I'm sure she's far stronger than you are.

[@shadylee1745]

@@thetommyknockerman7193 She is over rated.She is not some great rock singer by any stretch of the imagination

[@JB4375]

@@shadylee1745 Feel better?

[@WemmieFemmie]

What a poised, talented woman who knows her mistakes and takes responsibility for them.

[@dkblack3461]

She has such a sweet look here. She reminds me of a young Meg Ryan.

[@brookebinion1981]

I just don't think these uptight media people understand what a badass theyre talking to..."could you have done it without the drugs?" "definitely"

[@AnnaLVajda]

It would not have been the same though teenage girls sex and drugs it's a rock n roll image. People have to learn to do it straight later for their health but it's ingrained by then it's easy to do.

[@luciferdy9]

she's really opened about this issues. amazing.

[@rayshamrock]

Joe Biden's listening

[@Eljonno]

Holy fuck, talk show hosts from back in the day were so horribly insensitive. "Former Teen Rockstar Turned Coke Queen" .. and this is what they call her _after_ she's quit. Television broadcasters were on a massive drug tirade whenever Cherie gave an interview.

[@angelocatapang6054]

Jon still were jon.so much more 1,000,000 times awful than ever!.buncha jerk offs,subversive douchebags in the media.

[@moarroz]

As I'm reading your comment she starts singing and she sounds like a demon🤯🤯🤯😂😂 it's been a minute

[@nancy4005]

A person in authority *cough* Kim Fowley *Cough*...

[@kendallevans4079]

He was a asshat, he's dead and that's good

[@KateryReminiec9399]

Fowley should've stayed as a record producer...he had no idea of how to be a artist's manager

[@KateryReminiec9399]

All girl hard rock band

[@MRGXX64]

Glad to see Cherie Currie is doing very well today. And knew when to stop before it destroyed her life. Can't wait to see the movie "The Runaways".

[@lcagee]

One thing I find interesting about The Runaways. All of the girls in the band were very intelligent and really very nice sweet kids. Most have lead very interesting lives and have all accomplished a lot. A friend of mine knows one of them and she’s really kind and nice and cool.

[@f-tech5497]

except Sandy West

[@Armistead_MacSkye]

​@@f-tech5497What about Sandy Pesavento is an exception to that comment?

[@lorewilhelm9182]

I played in a band with Sandy West in the late 70's. R.I.P. Sandy.

[@AntaresSelket]

Wow, I remember being a little girl who listened to the Runaways, and watched the movie Foxes, and realized for the first time that Cherrie Currie rocked my life in more ways than one! She was so sexy, still is, but in Foxes she was a blonde bombshell to me. Thanks for the memories.

[@speedracer1945]

I saw most of that film at didn't know it was Her at first , She was skinny and frail , She looked very well in these films healthy. If You are from the 60's-70's drugs was accepted and cool , it just wasn't in Hollywood , it was everywhere

[@AntaresSelket]

I was a pre-teen at the time, and remember all the older people doing drugs. I grew up watching people snort cocaine and separate seeds from the pot so they could roll a joint... so ya, I remember the drugs! Not that any of that has really changed now, but people are heavier due to the processing of food, I suppose. I just remember wanting to be apart of a Cherrie Currie and Joan Jett sandwhich...right in the middle!

[@danah4551]

She was super hot in "Foxes." Great, underrated film.

[@AntaresSelket]

Dana H Yes. I liked the film so much that I bought it on DVD. There are many great actors in the beginning of their careers in 'Foxes'.

[@roxannemoser]

I loved her in Foxes. I think she upstaged Foster.

[@NH165]

She seems like a very real and down to earth person. Glad she overcame her drug addiction. Rock On!

[@jayschankman214]

[@_birdie]

it’s crazy. the Runaways weren’t together that long. already began dissolving just in over 2 yrs. so it really says something bout the industry that she went from zero to 100 so quickly. in just 2yrs a quaalude and coke addict, pregnant by a manager, i mean wow. it’s also odd-she looks younger here than she did performing cherry bomb live on stage back in the day.

[@DiamanteDea]

I loved her hair in the 70s

[@peterpanfan010]

"a person in authority" aka kim fowley

[@kaydailey5863]

peterpanfan010 Right.

[@levinmoser4001]

It was common knowledge he did that and called all of them dogfuckers

[@roxannemoser]

Kim Fowley is the dogfucker, hopefully burning in hell.

[@trysometruth]

I didn't know about this, and I'm kinda appreciating that I didn't. The underbelly of the 70's was freakin' brutal. Especially to women and girls.

[@rayshamrock]

@@trysometruth Joe Biden was there

[@melle7peace]

Im glad Cherie finally overcame her drug addiction. :) Altho she was great in The Runaways!!

[@ornamentdesigns]

I just watched the movie The Runaways (Dakota and Kristen are awesome!) and I find it amazing that this old footage is on youtube. Wow, I remember Sally Jessie from when I was a kid. Amazing that after all these years something has survived. Thanks for posting.

[@kendallgreenewalt3714]

"I didn't want to be one of the popular kids cause I didn't like the popular kids" YES CHERIE

[@daniellinehan63]

Cool

[@REIREI29]

A true fucking Rock Star, who knows what hard times really is. Unlike nowadays, with these fake ass, wanna be Rock Stars who create this bogus: "Bad girl" image because they wanna be like Rockers from the seventies.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

exactly.

[@Hacker73]

Cherie Currie is sooooooooooo cute here... CUTTEST GIRL IN THE WORLD! Like a cat from Japan... That's the Real Prettiest Beautiful Women Who Walked in Earth.

[@rrhone]

She's beautiful.

[@hazor777]

This was probably from the late 80's /early 90's - regardless, I've always thought Cherie Currie got much better looking as she got older and into her 30's, 40's and 50's ......

[@Strawberry3008]

"down dog" that does kinda sound like Kim "without me you're trash" really it does

[@femke6313]

Strawberry3008 it has Kim written all over it. He raped Jacky one of the base players they had. And convinced she wanted it. The girl was half awake and couldn't move. They never rebelled against him during the band's running as they were afraid of him. Hell they still are

[@slbiggs36]

Why does nobody ever mention Lita Ford being in the group!?

[@topangasideeye]

slbiggs36 did Lita have a hit on her own before “Kiss Me Deadly”? This might have aired before that record.

[@chillybop]

Yes she did have hits before kiss me deadly.

[@jamespardee6103]

She's still popular as a Heavy Metal performer.

[@LittleLulubee]

@Rich Myers She wasn’t just a guitarist- she was lead guitar and she killed it.

[@lynnhall9766]

Exactly!!!

[@onomanapua]

awww...she turned out so sweet & classy. Amazing

[@brainseatpeople1]

Thanks so much for these! I'm writing a book on the Runaways and any interview is really helpful.

[@BeauWorldWinnipeg]

I love Cherie's hair in these videos.

[@sweetlittlerocknroller1193]

She never changes, Foxes, i still see that side of cherie :P

[@smokeyroxursox]

@musclecars60 her dad was an alcoholic and her mom was in indonesia. I just finished her autobiography :P She really didnt have anyone to look out for her

[@zaymarelize]

cherie the best

[@WickedWest512]

I like her attitude. And I totally understood her high school story.

[@ShelterDogs]

Joan had a pretty good career actually. More success as a solo artist than with The Runaways.

[@longhorn2615]

super 80's hair!

[@dmdiamond220]

i'm so amazed and happy that she ended up healthy

[@Crashbanksbuysilver]

I wish she could have continued in rock, it sucks that she stopped, I love her...

[@DanyaHethail]

I lovee her!!

[@QueenJaneway]

I hate how they are so negative, I mean yeah it was awful with the drugs but hell, discuss the overall problems instead of WHAT SHE DID WRONG.

@Des Harris You are absolutely correct. My ex worked for a pharmaceutical company that was partners in developing Suboxone, a heroin replacement therapy. I saw lab rats opt for drugs over food until they died, addiction takes over the brain for sure. And fast!!

[@davidallen346]

Cherie Currie , Former Teen Rock star turned Coke Queen lol

[@JB4375]

@Des Harris Indeed. I saw an interview with Kathy Valentine from the Go Go's, the first time she did heroin she said: "I knew right then that this was the way I wanted to feel for the rest of my life". It was 7 years later before she kicked it. The same thing exact story for Danny Hutton from Three Dog Night, only it was 15 years for him. No happy endings down that road.

[@Chrysblu3]

She’s a survivor , some people can’t stop

[@Armistead_MacSkye]

​@@JB4375Didn't you mean Chuck Negron? ✌

[@ravenking803]

so a head of their time!! god love you! xoxoxo

[@darast.angelo261]

She was my idol!!!

[@jadeshannon5583]

U have done so well Cherie!

[@azrael193]

...She was just so cool...this girl new how to rock!

[@nonplayerzealot4]

Haha. Oh, Jeez. Before I was a cocaine addict, I was a Quaalude addict. Man, is that a mid 1970s statement.

[@jamestcallahanphotographer]

😆 seriously!

[@angelanetherton8240]

nonplayerzealot4 love your pic!!!

[@TheSWolfe]

Yessirree! As an aging punk, I couldn't help but laugh out loud at that one.

[@AliceLivesAgain]

She is really amazing, the fact she turned her life around after going through what she did. And holy shit, look at Sally Jessy Raphael, hahaha.

[@Armistead_MacSkye]

Cherie came full circle with Fowley. She nursed him when he died of Bladder Cancer, in her home. She did not simply forgive him, she practiced it.

[@toddlavigne6441]

very happy and healthy, and looking better then ever. ( at this time )

[@kaydailey5863]

Love Cherie Currie, thanks!!

[@maryk0505]

Thanks so much for this. I was out of touch with the Runaways during the 80's, strange to see Cherie with big 80's hair!!!

[@juliereminiec4937]

The Runaways weren't even known in America.. Their material wasn't played on the radio Look at the record charts in 1976

[@absenteechildhood8172]

Wonderful family??? Her mom went to airport in disguise to dodge her. She said in book she was devastated.

[@femke6313]

Absentee Childhood maybe she didn't like to publicly slaughter her mom as she was getting along with her. Or trying to be her daughter again.

[@cheriebomb158]

Absentee Childhood well I think she meant that he parents weren’t physically abusive or anything like that

[@DA90027]

Both Joan and Cherie are today both gorgeous women in their 50's. They both sound great too now. I'm glad they didn't go down the wrong road like Sandy West.

[@tombrunila2695]

Watch "Edgeplay" a documentary of The Runaways.

[@RebeccaStout]

THANK U SO MUCH

[@shannonD68]

She always maintained her good looks.

[@garima57]

cherie... and joan .. u r soooo inspirational.... thanks

[@SaoirseK]

I love you Cherie! :)

[@SweetieGord]

hi L7! thankee so much indeed for posting this! i'd heard the audio interview of Sally Jesse Raphael's segment but have waited years to see it on video! thanks again! and your other Jett interview clips are humdingers as well....regards!>...ggx

[@McAwEsOmE119]

frickin love the runaways and joan jett yaaa!!!!!!

[@sweetlittlerocknroller1193]

LOL ya, the movie, 'The runaways' sorta gave that, "Person of authority." Away already :)

[@nizzystar]

she's so amazing!

[@consciousbeing1188]

Could you imagine a 15yo girl these days getting on a stage dressed like Cherie was in 1977??... The media would have a field day!!

[@Tessmage_Tessera]

People weren't as hung up back then. That was before AIDS. Sex was fun and everyone was pretty open about it.

[@TheSWolfe]

Ever watched K-Pop? Or most mainstream pop? Beautiful production value/frequently-but-not-always vapid subject-matter/scantily clad teens choreographed to a tee. Many of today's performers, from very young onward, still exploit their physical assets to augment their stage shows. Not judging either way just saying, the beat goes on, and sex sells. That said, I'd like to think they're wiser than my gen was concerning unsafe sex, chemical assistance and money management, at least I hope so.

[@Blisteryn]

"If you play that image long enough, you become that image". TRUTH!

[@starqz5176]

Does anyone have Cherie's appearance on Oprah from around this same time (1988-89)? I have been looking around for that interview forever!

[@stevenmccann2891]

Love that movie, Foxes.

[@XavierKatzone]

Thank goodness she made it out the other side!

[@fallspeed]

She's very intelligent and sharp in these clips; glad to see the drugs didn't do any serious damage. Though I wasn't aware the Runaways performed in San Diego just a few weeks after she joined the group. That story sounds made up from the beginning, and it has only grown every time she tells it.

[@AxilaRosa]

*Tenho essa compilação de entrevistas da Cherie toda legendada aqui no meu canal, pra quem tiver interesse.* 😉

[@kellyi.4353]

2:05 What??? Madonna ain't got shit to do with Joan Jett! Joan Jett is pure 100% rock and roll gold. Madonna is an unquestionable pop queen. Two different worlds.

[@TallBootsRock]

Some verrrrry insigthful and honest info here. Thanks for posting these interviews!! xo Joannie H. (IDAHO)

[@takerdust]

Her book came out like in 1989, so its most likely this is her book press tour.

[@kimkrisrich]

She seems like a cool mom to have. wow how she still has a perfect nose even though she did all that cocaine for so many years, i'm so surprised it didnt eat her up. Even all the smoking didn't do any harm to her, shes still healthy and looks great for her age. Sandy didn't come out on all the videos smoking like Cherie did, and she still died of cancer.

[@RowanWarren78]

@musclecars60 Mom was a socialite who was never home, Dad was an alchoholic and absent much of the time.

[@yorkandpomona]

great compilation

[@MichaelSullivanHD]

Fuck I love her story

[@ChenalOfficial]

I love her :)

[@dinorivera9153]

No blame game here take responsibility for what's going on always. This is what it means to take your life back.its not about drugs, friends, parents, school etc. It's about you only you. Be your own boss. Don't let anything or anyone run you.

[@nicparker3809]

I WAS 8 AND IN LOVE

[@rudybigboote3883]

They weren’t jailbait to me... I was a couple of years younger than them so they were legal to me.

[@SpiralsHappen]

@agenthelios1 Whenever a family unit has the level of dysfunction that Cherie's family had it is very easy to succumb to the feeling canceling effects that drugs and alcohol provide. Addiction can be more profound. I am referring to people that are more prone to being sensitive. People that genuinely love their family and cannot bear to see such unhappiness and suffering of those that they care about. I hate it when people that are not sensitive judge others for being so.

[@WKADESIGNS]

She seems so sweet here compared to what she did with the Runaways! It's so wierd!

[@theatheistparade]

Wait! How about how awesome it was to play in the Runaways.

[@marksundermeier7513]

This is amazing!

[@SpiralsHappen]

Reality is for those that cannot cope with drugs. I saw that on a t-shirt once lol. I have used lots of alcohol, lots of pot, lots of coke, lots of crack, lots of meth, some acid, some mushrooms, X, speed pills, heroin, hash, hash oil, Thai stick, and opium. The whole time I always used organic health foods and weight lifting / exercise. World class snowboarder, skier, wind surfer etc. Ultimately I self-studied macrobiotics and know I am a fragment of God. Experience everything you need.

[@nicholasjames2097]

+DISOBEY NWOrder. Good on you, the organic foods and exercise counterbalance,also genetic dispositions I believe. Had some experiences and came out ok. All the best to you.

[@SlothfulKiko]

@L7JETT She called her Cherry after she said it was found by Joan Jett. I think that it just brought back memories when she heard the interviewer say that. She actually smirked when she was called Cherry haha

[@162Jenni]

She is just a perfect woman !

[@justpeachy918]

@iCatey If you read Cherie Currie's book, she explains how after the Runaways she really didn't talk to any of the girls for quite some time and downspiraled into a very, very hard addiction to cocaine and crack cocaine. She was also raped multiple times and tortured during one of those occurrences.

[@maranderson56]

It is good to see that she is doing so well now. Although these are very dated interviews, obviously. Is there any newer information on her these days? @agentthelios1 it is true that those of you who haven't ever done the stuff she or others did, I agree wholeheartedly with @ncwdane, that God rejoices not only in those who are walking right, but rejoices when one of those were lost and are now found.

[@skylarsmom1]

the runaways kick ass 2 this day

[@fishstick42]

that was an awesome interview.

[@Zak_Meents]

@wheelinthesky300 I don't know if she got breast implants, but what you have to remember is in the early photos of her - in in the corset and fishnets she was only 15-16 years old and just starting to actually develop breast, but as I say, she could have had implants, I don't know.

[@carebonez]

does anyone want to create a band? im 13 and i live in PA. I play rythmn and sing like Joan Jett. And ps. to REIREI29 some girls you see are bad girl and some act fake. You should be able to tell the difference. Since rock n roll isnt as popular today as it was back then, any girl rocker that comes along should be good. And you should be more thankful for her!

[@dismas10]

I play drums!? lol

[@larryburnopp8691]

+Pansy Parkinson why did you quit the band of The Runaways you guys were good

[@ben_jamin4529]

Please don't be so naive and stick to people you actually know.

[@tacomadc]

She actually seems really nice.

[@satelliteheart100]

thanks a lot!

[@Sarasdad91]

I have this interview. It's part of the Story of Rock and Roll with John Bowman

[@Agent009B]

@rrhone This was the early to mid '80's as they mention Madonna in here and the movie Foxes which Cherie Currie did in 1980 which means whe was at least 21 years old.

[@EdieSexwitch]

She looks a little like Sharon Stone.

[@larryburnopp8691]

hi honey give me a call I'm just text me send me send me a picture of you my name is Larry

[@jasonhuntley4203]

she was hot then and STILL IS NOW SHE IS A M.I.L.F

[@sweetlittlerocknroller1193]

Ya. That was really her too. Lol, funny to think about right? She wasnt really acting, that was the amazing Cherie Currie :)