She finds all the emotional fulfillment she needs with Valentino, she says: “All the validation I could ever get, I get from my son - the love, the intimacy, the closeness. That romanticized idea of men doesn’t exist anymore.” Has she dated at all during that time? She replies with a whiff of boredom. I sleep so well,” she says, laughing with her mouth full. Earlier this year she publicly swore off men, but she says the cleanse has been going on longer than that. It’s kind of wild.”įox’s author era is also her celibate era. “I know for a fact I’ve been up for certain things and couldn’t do it because of dating Kanye. Fox says she suspects she’s been blacklisted at times since the end of the affair. “It really wasn’t that big of a deal, but other people made it such a big deal,” she says of their time together. I never have, and I never will,” she says before quickly adding, “unless it’s a professional opportunity, then sure.”ĭespite the media attention the relationship brought - including an Interview Magazine shoot and article that Fox says she was unaware of until it was happening - she’d rather shake the association today. “I’m not signing a f- NDA just on principle. By 18, she is working as a dominatrix under the name Valentina, flaunting her talent for revenge by depositing her waste in the locker of a colleague who destroyed her Jimmy Choos.įox insists she “went lightly” in describing their relationship in the book, but she never signed an NDA. Now that I’m a parent” - Fox has a 2-year-old son, Valentino, with her ex-husband, Peter Artemiev - “I have way more sympathy for how hard it is.”įox has her first kiss at 11 with a man who’s 26, tries heroin for the first time in high school and ends up in an abusive relationship with a drug dealer who stalks her from prison. “He’s just neurodivergent and was doing the best he could. “I don’t want people to think my dad’s such an a-, because he’s not,” she says now. It begins with a chaotic upbringing - a distant mother who lives in Italy and a father who struggles to parent. “They don’t understand that life is a gray area.” “I feel like people just have such black-and-white thinking,” she says. “Down the Drain” is teeming with nuclear-level anecdotes, alongside accounts of troubling interactions with family, friends and lovers - everything ranging from neglect to sexual assault. Suffice it to say her dalliance with West (sexless, she claims) only amplified a notoriety she’d been courting since birth. But even beyond that, it makes sense that she was hesitant to box it in: Fox’s life as she knows it was an amalgamation of soap opera, Mafia flick and “A Star Is Born” topped with a heaping of heroin. She does concede now that some timelines have been altered and characters composited. When asked about the book earlier this year, she initially referred to it as a “masterpiece,” and not exactly a memoir. “ Down the Drain,” Fox’s debut memoir, spares no one, least of all herself, in its shocking tales of a New York wild child. Fox is ready to speak for herself as she enters her author era - and boy, does she have stories to tell. The world beyond is also about to know her better. She may be the star of “ Uncut Gems” and a regular social media meme whose brief relationship with Kanye West famously took over the tabloids, but on the Lower East Side, she’s a known character. The second she enters this Italian eatery, the hostess anxiously beams, “You’re Julia Fox,” and the owner, whom she knows, frequents the table to offer menu updates and give her branded merch and condoms. But even if the actress and model, 33, weren’t sporting an oversize vintage tee featuring a Persian bodybuilder and a camo cap emblazoned with the word “Salem’’ over crimson hair, she couldn’t blend in if she tried. Seeing Julia Fox seated in a millennial pink restaurant is almost as shocking as watching her daringly strut along the streets of New York City in a metal barely-there bikini and a black trench coat. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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