But like any 21-year-old, she detests being reminded of what she was like when she was a teenager.Īll this would be beside the point, only Bijou's latest movie, Bully, is about what happens when American teenagers find themselves too far out of their emotional depth. Feet tucked under her, she is as jaded as any middle-aged rock star, but with the fragile self-confidence of any post-adolescent. She sits on a sofa in a photographer's studio, two parts nerves to one part feistiness, dressed in a pink shirt and brown mock-sheepskin jacket. 'If you were 14 years old and able to live on your own in an apartment in New York City, and you got invited to all these clubs, and you got a bank account and you had a car service you could call so that you could go wherever you wanted. Her father sent her into rehab, a process he knew a little about.Īt 21, an older, wiser, soberer Bijou Phillips looks jumpy the moment the subject of her teenage indiscretions are raised. At 17 she fell apart after her friend - the 20-year-old Manhattan socialite Davide Sorrenti - died after overdosing on heroin.
She grew up on the pages of America's tabloids, where readers lapped up stories of her precocious misbehaviour: how she ended an affair with Cher's son Elijah Blue by throwing his belongings out of the window how she allegedly tried to French kiss one girl interviewer how she half-sliced a man's finger off with a cigar-cutter in New York's Spy Bar. She flashed her breasts to photographers on what seemed like a regular basis, and at 15 lost her virginity to the famously drug-bingeing singer Evan Dando. She drank and took drugs - anything from coke and ecstasy up to heroin. Then, at 14, she quit school, left home and moved into her own apartment just off Fifth Avenue - with her own housekeeper. She was one of the bored, pouty adolescents showing white underwear in a Calvin Klein campaign that was widely condemned as eerily paedophilic. Bijou began to make a name for herself at 13, initially as a model.
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