‘My partners would all tell you I was a nut job’: Jane Wiedlin on the Go-Go’s, fame and the freedom of sex dungeons

As she releases a brutally honest memoir, the new wave icon opens up about industry sexism, living with bipolar disorder and becoming ‘the world’s first atheist ordained minister’

The first thing Jane Wiedlin tells me before our interview even begins is that, an hour or so earlier, she downed two beers. “It keeps me cheerful,” she says with a laugh. The disclosure dovetails with the reason we’re doing the interview in the first place, which is to unpack her new memoir, a tome that deserves a truth-in-advertising award for its title alone: TMI (as in “too much information”). “I’ve always been TMI!” Wiedlin proudly announces. “I’m the one who always wanted to expose the truth. This book is my first opportunity to do so.”