Minka Kelly recalls the first time she met her dad — former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay — and the cycles of addiction that ensnared her parents in a new excerpt from the audiobook of her memoir, Tell Me Everything, out today, May 2.
Kelly was three when she first met Dufay, who spent the early Eighties playing with Aerosmith, replacing Brad Whitford between 1981 and 1984. Father and daughter’s first meeting was orchestrated by Kelly’s mother, Maureen, who showed up at an Aerosmith concert in Los Angeles and spent the show pelting Dufay...
Kelly was three when she first met Dufay, who spent the early Eighties playing with Aerosmith, replacing Brad Whitford between 1981 and 1984. Father and daughter’s first meeting was orchestrated by Kelly’s mother, Maureen, who showed up at an Aerosmith concert in Los Angeles and spent the show pelting Dufay...
- 5/2/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Minka Kelly says it was a long journey to repair her relationship with her father Rick Dufay.
The Aerosmith guitarist wasn’t around for most of her childhood as he was about to embark on a tour with the band and wasn’t ready to be a father at the time she revealed in her memoir Tell Me Everything.
“My mom was on her own for a very long time, so she was just surviving and doing her best and maybe not totally well-equipped to have and raise a child,” she told People. “But she did it anyway because she wanted me and she loved me to the best of her ability.”
While her mother Maureen did reunite with Dufay for a brief period, the relationship didn’t last long as she moved into an on-again off-again relationship with a man named David who would act as Kelly’s father figure at times.
The Aerosmith guitarist wasn’t around for most of her childhood as he was about to embark on a tour with the band and wasn’t ready to be a father at the time she revealed in her memoir Tell Me Everything.
“My mom was on her own for a very long time, so she was just surviving and doing her best and maybe not totally well-equipped to have and raise a child,” she told People. “But she did it anyway because she wanted me and she loved me to the best of her ability.”
While her mother Maureen did reunite with Dufay for a brief period, the relationship didn’t last long as she moved into an on-again off-again relationship with a man named David who would act as Kelly’s father figure at times.
- 4/19/2023
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
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