Things got serious when Nicollette moved into my house. But it was crazy too. For one thing, I was getting busier than ever. After my album Can’t Explain came out, I headed back over to Europe to do shows and appearances throughout Italy and Germany. Then it was back to the US for appearances on a bunch of TV shows, including Solid Gold, then a beauty pageant and a bunch of other things I am hard-pressed to remember. But most important, we were too young to live together. But it felt like the right thing to do. It also raised a lot of eyebrows, given her young age of just seventeen. But we didn’t care. Her mom didn’t mind at all. We were in love, we were in lust, and little else mattered. Living at the house, though, created some tensions that hadn’t been there before. My mom and Nicollette got along for the most part, but occasionally there were flare-ups. Two Scorpio women arguing over the Scorpio man in the house made for some interesting and intense situations. There was also tension between Nicollette and my sister, Dawn. It was awkward all the way around, but we tried to make the best of it.
The relationship, for all of its passion, was also volatile. We were both very young and reactionary. When we loved, we did so with fire, but the same went for when we argued. Everything was always a production. And yes, we were jealous of each other. If someone else so much as looked at one of us, that was cause to argue. Looking back, maybe that should have helped us appreciate each other more, the fact that others found us desirable. But we were obviously not that mature.
Nicollette and I attended the premiere of The Sure Thing directed by Rob Reiner in 1985. It was a big night for Nicollette. Even though her part was small, it was pivotal and people loved her. I felt like I had “discovered” her first, but the more the world got to know her, the more they fell in love the same way I did. She was that beguiling. I was planning to spend the rest of my life with her. I know that sounds crazy given my age and my circumstances, but that’s how in love with her I was. I had been with so many girls up until that point, and Nicollette made me forget almost all of them. And we were so lustful! We stopped at nothing when it came to being together. It’s not that our relationship was built on great sex, but it certainly was enhanced with our lack of inhibitions. I remember getting off the ski lift at Squaw Valley by Lake Tahoe; we skied down a small slope, went behind some trees, and had sex there. When I took Nicollette to London and we saw Duran Duran, even though we were backstage, we climbed up to the catwalk at the Hammersmith Odeon and had sex looking down right on top of the band. Another time I had rented a house in Lake Tahoe for New Year’s, and we drove up early in the morning with my mom and sister in the back seat. While they were sleeping, Nicollette climbed on top of me as I was driving and we had sex. We were insatiable and it was unbelievable. Anytime. Anywhere. Anything went.