Jason Priestley by Jason Priestley

Author:Jason Priestley
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Sunset Strip

West Hollywood

90069

Christine and I had been fortunate for nearly five years to actually live a pretty normal life in our house in the hills. Everyone at the local grocery store knew me; same with the local deli and wine store. All the stores plus a dry cleaner were in one convenient location. It was a great little neighborhood, and when I stuck close to home I was in my own space, where no one cared who I was or what I did. There didn’t tend to be packs of paparazzi chasing people around and camping outside their homes in those days, at least not outside our home. They would be at the clubs and restaurants, but they didn’t stake people out the way photographers and TMZ do now.

The seventh season was ending—along with what had been a happy and rewarding relationship between Christine and me. Things had been unraveling for a while. It was clear we were drifting in opposite directions. Ultimately, Christine and I just wanted different things out of life. She was perfectly content with our arrangement—and don’t get me wrong, we had a great life. Still, I knew that someday I wanted to have kids, and that was something she was not interested in. I knew I had to make some changes to my life in order to eventually have a family life, and while I was nowhere near ready for kids, I was ready to at least start considering the possibility.

A conversation I’d recently had with my friend Michael Budman was on my mind. Michael is one of the owners of the Canadian clothing company Roots and a brilliant businessman. He, like many of my friends, was considerably older than I; he told me one day that the best move he’d ever made was to wait until he was forty to have kids. “Your twenties are for fucking around; your thirties are for making money; your forties are for raising a family and devoting your life to your children,” he told me. Wow, write that one down and remember it. A road map to life right there . . . if you don’t get derailed somewhere having too much fun.

The actual split with Christine happened just as summer hiatus began on 90210, and it was extremely unsettling for me. She remained in our house for a few months until she could find something new, so I moved out and rented Peter Weller’s place on the Sunset Strip while he was in Italy making a movie. I was living in this rented bachelor pad alone and starring on a hit TV show. This was really the first time I took advantage of that situation vis-à-vis dating, because up to that point I usually had a steady girlfriend. I didn’t do a film on hiatus that summer. Instead, I found quite a few short-term girlfriends at the SkyBar in the Mondrian Hotel, which was very handily within walking distance.

My life on the eighth season of 90210 was quite active, to say the least, and for a while I was out every night.

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