Down the Drain

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Specter, Emma (January 6, 2022). "Who, Exactly, Is Julia Fox? 5 Things to Know About the Uncut Gems Star". Vogue. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022 . Retrieved January 7, 2022.

In 2019, a close friend of Fox's died of a fentanyl overdose. Fox has spoken about how her friend's death influenced her to remain sober. [58]

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Ziegler, Hannah (January 13, 2020). "So You Watched Uncut Gems and Want to Know More About Julia Fox". Elle. Archived from the original on November 28, 2020 . Retrieved August 5, 2020. Fox, Julia (January 6, 2022). "Date Night". Interview. Archived from the original on January 7, 2022 . Retrieved January 8, 2022. I was 14 years old in clubs, you know? By the time I was 18, I was tired,” she told Paper magazine in 2019. “It just got boring and repetitive. I already knew what the night would be like — it just wasn’t fulfilling to me anymore. It was this really cheap thrill that I had become immune to.” Fox has described herself as a “Renaissance woman” Fox was born in Italy and moved to the U.S. at 6. In her memoir, she candidly describes her erratic upbringing in New York City, with parents who were often in conflict with each other, she says.

Testa, Jessica (September 25, 2023). "Julia Fox Gets Dirty to Come Clean". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 25, 2023 . Retrieved September 25, 2023. Read on to learn more about Julia Fox, including revelations from her new memoir, “Down the Drain.” She has been open about her turbulent childhood One thing they don’t do in Fox’s telling is have sex. When Ye takes Fox to his hotel room after dinner one night, it’s not to strip her down but to dress her up in an unreleased collection of Diesel by Glenn Martens for a photo shoot. They were turned on by overlapping circles of art: fashion, photography, and themselves recording it all. “As I strike poses and twirl in front of the camera,” Fox writes, “he leans in to kiss me, the flashbulbs illuminating the room with a dazzling light.” Instead of love, they were making art.The difference for Fox, these days, is that where in previous phases of her life, when bad things happened, she would spiral towards drugs and drink, now she tries very hard to stay sane for her two-year-old. She is not entirely sober. “I don’t go to AA meetings. I love AA, and I’ve gotten a lot of tools from it, but now I really just abstain. I’ll have a glass of wine if I’m going out but it’s very rare. I stopped smoking weed, because I was such a pot head. I stay away from the things I know will derail my life and I have no control over.” The pandemic happening so soon after her debut movie came out put a big dent in her progression in the film industry, but she has some roles in the works. She is promoting the book. And, in the meantime, she lives with Valentino, who, she prides herself, engages in none of the “twitchy things” she had going on as a child. She has a stable co-parenting relationship with her ex-husband, Peter. And her son, she says, “is so happy, kind, generous, loves to dance”. For all her difficulties, Fox has never had trouble giving herself praise when it’s due. “I’m like, oh, mission accomplished.” Fox started as a clothing designer and launched a successful women's knitwear luxe line, Franziska Fox, with her friend Briana Andalore. [4] [16] She also worked as a model, posing for the last nude edition of Playboy in 2015, [20] and as an exhibiting painter and photographer. [21] She self-published two books of photography, Symptomatic of a Relationship Gone Sour: Heartburn/Nausea, published in 2015, and PTSD, published in 2016. [4] [21] In 2017, Fox hosted an art exhibit titled "R.I.P. Julia Fox'", which featured silk canvases painted with her own blood. [22] Anderson, Samuel (December 1, 2019). "V Girls: Julia Fox". V. Archived from the original on January 8, 2022 . Retrieved January 7, 2022. On their second night together, while at dinner at Carbone, West asked her to be his girlfriend. But Fox instantly shut it down, claiming that it’s way too early to take their relationship public. He responds by saying that if she’s worried about him embarrassing her, he wouldn’t. He credits this to the fact that she has a son and his own mother was a single parent. “That’s odd, I think to myself,” she writes. “Would he offer me the same courtesy if I had a daughter?”