Jewel is a multi-platinum recording artist, poet, and actress. ‘Pieces of You,’ her debut album, produced the hit single “Who Will Save Your Soul.” Did you know How did Sean Penn meet Jewel?
Jewel, a singer-songwriter, was in a relationship with actor Sean Penn. After seeing her on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” in 1995, he tracked her down with a phone call to her father’s home in Alaska. Jewel’s father mistook it for a prank call.
Falling with Sean Penn
The songstress’ memoir Jewel—Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story is now available and is proving to be a juicy tale. According to an excerpt from the book, the “Foolish Games” singer had a romance with the actor when she first appeared on the scene.
She recalled how it all started when her music career was just getting started, and Penn was still married to now-ex-wife Robin Wright.
Around this time, in 1995, I got my first TV break,” she writes of her television debut on Conan O’Brien’s show. “I think I was wearing purple polyester pants with a black T-shirt and a tacky belt with a rainbow buckle that I loved. The performance was a huge break for me
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Massive, indeed! Penn called because he saw Jewel on the show and wanted her to write a song for his film The Crossing Guard.
He began to court me in earnest, following me around on tour, acting as my de facto roadie, I was nowhere near famous, opening for Peter Murphy of Bauhaus in small clubs.
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Jewel would go on to record the film’s theme song, “Emily,” and accompany Penn to the Venice Film Festival. Nonetheless, the new relationship went unnoticed by tabloid reporters.
I kept our burgeoning relationship very quiet, I was determined not to be ‘discovered’ because I was dating someone in the public eye. I liked his mind, and I had fun sparring with him.
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Jewel would walk the red carpet (as a singer-songwriter for the film, not as Penn’s date) and dine with Hollywood heavyweights such as Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, and (later, back in Los Angeles) Warren Beatty.
I enjoyed Sean and would eventually fall in love, but I did not go around holding hands or trying to be seen or noticed
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The couple eventually divorced, and Jewel married cowboy Ty Murray in 2008. In 2014, the couple announced their divorce after six years of marriage. Kase, their 4-year-old son, is their only child.
I liked his mind sober, and had fun playing this way. When I told him this in all seriousness, in a dive bar after a sound check, he responded with a melancholy stare and then canary-eating grin and said it would be impossible not to fall in love with me. I looked at him to see if he was serious. It seemed he was
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The singer recalled a trip to the Venice Film Festival with Penn, where Penn introduced her to a new glitzy and glamorous world.
took me to see the sights in Montartre and wrote me in notes that he hid in my pockets…I enjoyed Sean and would eventually fall in love.
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(Source:Eonline)
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