Actress Katey Sagal’s new memoir Grace Notes: My Recollections has a number of amazing stories about her work on Married… With Children, Futurama, and Sons Of Anarchy, but the story that has us most interested is how she finally ended her relationship with Gene Simmons.
Sagal worked as a vocalist in the last ’70s, and met Simmons at her job as a singing waitress in a Santa Monica bar. “At first, I thought Gene was really weird,” she recalled. “I took him home with me that night because he was quite persuasive, and I like men.”
Sagal and Simmons never officially dated, but she sang on his debut album, and the on-off relationship was serious enough to Sagal to present Simmons with an ultimatum: that he either propose to her, or she would marry Freddie Beckmeier of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Simmons laughed at this suggestion, and she swiftly ended things for good.
Grace Notes: My Recollections chronicles Sagal’s life “from the tragic deaths of her parents to her long years in the Los Angeles rock scene, from being diagnosed with cancer at the age of 28 to getting her big break as the wise-cracking Peggy Bundy on Married … With Children.”
