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CAMILA: Do you know what Daphne said to me the night of my wedding? That I should run, I should run far away and not marry the guy because you don't marry guys like Billy Dunne.
DAPHNE: Tour was, unfortunately, what Rod and Teddy had imagined it'd be like for me. I don't even want to think about where I'd be now if I were alone that 'round.
I sometimes wonder if I'd still be alive.
Some type of ego hit me so hard the second we headed out and saw we had real crowds. I had people calling out my name, and the band's. I had Billy Dunne by my side singing my lyrics as I did his, he'd get a large chunk of the set on his own as I headed back to my guitar with Eddie and Graham... I was content on the sideline 'cus I got to play at every show.
I still got a couple songs in for me though.
I'd argue I was still saintly in comparison to Billy, not in our behavior... that was equal. He was just a liar from the beginning, lied to himself the whole way through. At least I was honest about the drugs.
He told everyone he was just gonna sing our songs every night and call home and blah blah fucking blah. I don't know how nobody saw through it.
Everyone was scared to confront Billy, the pride of the band. Part of him being so tough was my fault I'd say, I didn't let him off at all. It might've been torturous. I thought it was a relationship, that's what I thought it was. Toxic, harbored anger and lust.
Billy Dunne and I never, and I mean never, kissed or slept together on this tour. Quite frankly, that toxic bubble faded in about two weeks and I found myself avoiding him besides the stage.
I guess the stage was the worst part though, we couldn't help but be close.
He was different on stage. It hurt every part of me.
When I said I'd started to sober up, that went to shit. I made him an anchor when we wrote, bad on my part but when you see that person you put above you fall into the depths with you it really gets you thinking.
I liked being drugged up because then I could blame myself for the way he was acting when I woke up. Sounds weird but I mean, maybe the drugs really clouded my head? Maybe the bubbly made me see something I didn't.
EDDIE: She overdosed four weeks in, found her, brought her to a hospital. Daphne talked about it like it was normal, kept slurring for water on her face while we waited when she was finally conscious. She had a small piece of ripped paper with a phone number, the one I had to call and not an ambulance.
I was fucking terrified but she wasn't. I mean, surely deep down she was but she fronted like this was under control. Like it was normal.
ROD: You couldn't call an ambulance in the same way [shrugs]. It's no secret we had special doctors who could discreetly help out the artists, it was safest for Daphne's career. The reason she wasn't in the dirt was because there were rumours of her drug abuse, rumours of her possibly od'ing. The public likes a scandalous rockstar but they don't wanna deal with the reality, you spoon fed 'em.
