Sebastian Bach, the ’80s rock vocalist famed for leading Skid Row, has responded after Christina Applegate suggested in her new memoir that she once dated him.
In her newly released book, You With The Sad Eyes, Applegate opens up about past relationships, including a story in which she reportedly left a then-unknown Brad Pitt at an event to head home with the singer.
Applegate had previously kept the man’s identity under wraps for years, but she names him directly in the memoir.
After the book’s details began circulating, Bach addressed the anecdote publicly and confirmed he was the person Applegate was referring to.
“I was a single guy on tour, in a band, and I met a lot of girls, and I apologize if I hurt her… if I hurt anybody,” Bach said in a new interview with Billboard.
“When you’re young, you get thrown into the whirlwind of rock & roll, meeting a lot of people, and you better hold on tight. It’s like being on a roller coaster.”
“It was a long time ago,” he added before reiterating, “If I hurt anybody, I apologize for it.”
In the memoir, Applegate recounts attending the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards with Pitt, explaining that they’d been close friends for some time before their dynamic began to change.
She writes that the night itself went well, but says things took a turn at the end of the evening, when she chose to leave with Bach instead of Pitt.
“I felt so powerful and sure of myself for once that when the awards show was over, I left with Sebastian Bach, not Brad Pitt,” she writes.
“I had spent all night staring at Bach, who was then a long-haired hunk fronting the band Skid Row,” she elaborates. “I hate to put it like this, but Brad back then was still making his way as an actor, and he wasn’t yet the Brad Pitt, the man of so many people’s dreams.”
Applegate says she was 17 at the time, and that the decision damaged her bond with Pitt. She adds that he was hurt by what happened, and the two drifted apart for years afterward.
She also notes that they eventually reconnected and later returned to friendlier terms.
“Eventually, we agreed that I’d been a child, and though he deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row,” she writes in the book. “Of course, Brad is now the Brad Pitt, and Sebastian Bach… well, he still has long hair, I guess.”