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Julia Fox will not call Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, by his name. In her searing new memoir, Down the Drain, Fox refers to him only as “the artist.” Their relationship, which lasted all of two months in 2022, turned Fox from downtown darling with a scene-stealing role in Uncut Gems into a near-permanent fixture in People magazine. Suddenly, more people than ever wanted to know about this New York–famous former dominatrix who also happened to be a devoted, latex-clad mother of a beautiful baby as well as an art girl who once used her own blood on canvas.

But to obsess over Fox’s relationship with Ye — which she writes about in her 318-page book’s final chapter, covering an eight-week blip in her 15-year history with an unbelievable number of terrible men — is to miss the point entirely. The details of their relationship are gossip, but the way she relays the rest of her romantic history (which is rife with abuse, mirroring her formative relationship with her parents) is what makes her a different kind of survivor.

We tend to see survivors in one of two ways: the “good survivor,” a strong woman who identifies herself by her trauma and internalizes shame, or the “bad survivor,” a talented and unrepentant train wreck who shamelessly acts out. But Fox, through her memoir and public persona, presents a third option. She dares to be honest without yielding to the tremendous pressure to confess to the abuse she has endured from a vantage point of crystalline respectability. And while she has branded herself publicly as a sexy, post-shame woman, in her book she writes that she actually feels shame acutely, in response to everything from so-called friends turning furniture into a burn book by graffitiing a couch with her name and the words dirty and ugly to a boyfriend who puts her down while idolizing the DJ-cosplaying rich girls who have had it too easy to be half as cool.

In her memoir, Fox introduces us to Giovanni, the 23-year-old to whom she lost her virginity when she was 14. He winks at her while she is play-fighting in the dirt with her cousin in a small Northern Italian town near Milan, where she was born (Fox lived between there and New York City off and on as a kid). Later, Giovanni plies her with alcohol until she can barely stand. Then he has sex with her — outside, on the ground, in the middle of the cobblestoned street near his car. After, she drips blood over his crisp white sweater, and the next day word spreads through town that she is a whore.

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