In a recent interview with Metal Voice, legendary The Runaways frontwoman, Cherie Currie, talked about how she was kidnapped by a man, who almost killed her!
The story took place after she left The Runaways…
” I just left The Runaways and this man pulled up and it was like Cherie long time no see. Good looking guy and he’s in a green limousine. I’m thinking to myself, oh I don’t recognize him but I was a people pleaser. I didn’t want to make anyone feel bad I didn’t want to turn around and say gosh I don’t remember you. I played along with it and there was a guard right there to my left. My friends were right there and he said look at my new car and I said well that’s nice. He goes well, why don’t you jump in as I pull around to park. This voice immediately said don’t do it but I looked and I saw the guard was right there. I thought for some reason that they overheard him but they didn’t and it was being a people pleaser not wanting to hurt his feelings.
I got in the car and he’s pointing at all the gadgets, look at this, look at that. And we’re coming around this horseshoe and I saw him pass one spot and it’s a limousine right so there were only a couple of spots that it took and then the Master locks came down and he just went right out the parking lot. I didn’t have my purse, I had nothing on me. I didn’t have an ID, nothing .
He took me probably 15 miles to the Osborne exit off the 170 freeway to a desolate area to a house. I screamed enough trust me no one came. He got me probably at about 10 at night, my sister was supposed to pick me up at 11:pm. He held me until about 5 in the morning when I talked him into going back with him to Dallas, this is after I’d stabbed him with a knife. I’m very lucky he didn’t kill me but I literally was so desperate because he kept telling me he’d killed six women and he was going to kill me. So I was in that kind of terror.
After I’d stabbed him he was beating me, he drugged me, he knocked me to the ground and dragged me by my hair into the bedroom and he literally straddled me and was punching me in the face where I started to go unconscious. Then I heard this voice saying don’t you remember we used to do this. I was just playing, I was just playing. I didn’t mean it, you know , I love you. I was just falling into this Blackness of unconsciousness and all of a sudden the blows became less and less and less and I said take me home and I’ll get my stuff and we could be together and he believed it. It bought me my life.
I’ll never forget he’s driving to my friend Vicky Ronald’s apartment and my dear friend Andy Raffles. I knew Andy would be there. I knew they were searching for me at this time because I left my purse. I had him drive me to Vicki’s apartment. He brought me down into the underground parking lot and I said I’ll be right back and I get out and I get into the stairwell and I collapsed. I mean I just literally fell on the floor and I crawled up the stairs and I got to the apartment I knocked on the door and Andy opens that door and he lifted me up and I just said he’s downstairs that’s all I said. Andy grabbed a butcher knife and a flashlight and he went out that door and he got that license plate.
It took the police literally 30 minutes and they took me from the hospital in the patrol car to ID the house which I did about 7:30- 8:00 in the morning. Then the police waited till the following morning at about 4 a.m. and they busted through that door and they dragged him out naked and you know he I went to trial and he had decided to take a plea deal. He pleaded to sodomy by force and got one year in county and they dropped the kidnapping, the baiting, everything, all the sexual assault because it was you know arms length what he had done and more. So he pleaded guilty to sodomy by force and got one year in county I think he’s dead today to be honest or changed his name.”
Check out the entire interview here:
