'I was living in my car because I wouldn’t have sex with my boss. I refused to be leveraged and he wouldn’t give me my paycheck.' Jewel speaks out about the harassment she faced from male journalists in the 90s.
Jewel continued, “I said that at the time, I said that in every interview, but it was almost like people didn’t even have the ears to hear it. They would just write the story, ‘Jewel lived in her car to pursue her music career.’ That’s not why I lived in my car. I was not even thinking I would be a musician. I was trying to figure out how to stand up for myself, how to refuse to be leveraged for anything or anyone. It was an active defiance, it was an act of courage.
While Jewel gained a reputation for being irascible in interviews in the mid-to-late Nineties, it was often the direct result of the harassment she faced from male journalists in a pre-#MeToo world, who reportedly asked her such inappropriate questions as, “So, Jewel, how do you give a blowjob with those fucked up teeth?” And that’s only one of many times she was asked sexually loaded questions or cast in misogynistic light.
“I remember South Carolina live on air, ‘Hey, you may have heard me describe my next guest as a large-breasted woman from Alaska. Jewel, how are you?’” Jewel said. “I said, ‘You must be the small penis man I’ve heard so much about from South Carolina.’ Escorted out of the radio station. Like, that was just life.”
Jewel also recounted her infamous interview with Kurt Loder in 1998, when the MTV News anchor was openly dismissive of her then-new poetry collection and evena poem’s misused word on-air. “He was just a dick. What an ass to show himself like that,” Jewel told Stereogum of Loder, who never apologized to the singer. “It was almost that thing where you’d feel sorry for somebody, it’s like, ‘Wow, here’s a full-grown man who does news for children, on a children’s network, for teenagers.
“I lived the life, I stood up for the things I wanted to stand up for, and you do it because it’s the right thing to do,” Jewel added. “But it is fun to be around long enough to be able to talk about it.”
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