Short summary of his life

Anthony (Tony) Keidis was born in Grand Rapids, Michagan. When he was three years old his parents divorced and when he was 11 years old he moved to Los Angeles with his dad. Thats when he was introduced to marijuana and other drugs by his dad, who was a well known drug dealer of the area. At a very young age he was introduced to the club life and with the blessing of his father lost his virginity to his fathers girlfriend Kimberly at the age of 12. He attended Fairfax High School in Hollywood, where he met his future bandmates Hillel Slovak, Flea, and Jack Irons. He attended UCLA but dropped out his sophomore year due to his worsening heroin addiction. He was struggling with his band and with heroin and coke addiction for many years until 1988 when his best friend and the band guitarist Hillel Slovak died of heroin overdose. After that he put himself into rehab and managed to stay sober for 5 years, it was around this time the bands popularity began rising and they started to become more well known. He was sober for 5 years until he had to go to the hospital and a doctor prescribed him ultram despite the fact Keidis asked for drugs not in the opiate family due to his past addiction. Because of that his 5 years of being sober came tumbling down. Somewhere in all the years of drug addiction Anthony contracted Hepatitis C, but he has been treating it with an herbal remedy that seems to work well for him. He is a full vegan and just went through a divorce with his wife Heather Christy, who he had a child with on October 2, 2007.

showing off his sexy tattoos

Anthony Keidis Performing...sooo beautiful