Actress Katey Sagal briefly romanced Kiss frontman Gene Simmons after meeting him when she was a young waitress in California.
The Sons of Anarchy star was a 20-year-old employee at a Los Angeles restaurant when she served Simmons following the band’s concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the mid-1970s.
Sagal, who was an aspiring singer at the time, performed for the rocker, flirted with him, and went home with Simmons.
“He was quite persuasive, and I like men,” she writes in her memoir Grace Notes.
Simmons accompanied her to her band practice the next day and introduced her to the president of his record label, Neil Bogart, who signed her group. However, her big break never came to fruition after the band’s first album sold poorly and they were released from their contract.
Sagal maintained her relationship with Simmons even though she knew he wasn’t a one-woman guy.
“I fantasized that I would be the exception,” she continues.
The relationship eventually came to an end after another musician proposed to Sagal. She reportedly told Simmons about the engagement and informed him she would decline the marriage offer if the Kiss star wanted to wed her, but he reportedly laughed.