Lenny Kravitz Tells How Parents’ Rocky Marriage Was Nothing Like “The Jeffersons”
Rock legend, Lenny Kravitz, revealed a lot about his parents’ marriage in an interview with The Telegraph. For those who didn’t know, his mother is the late actress, Roxie Roker, best known for her role as “Helen Willis” on “The Jeffersons” and his father, Sy Kravitz, was a TV executive for NBC back in the day.
Lenny detailed what it was like watching his Mom deal with his Pops’ cheating ways when she was at the height of her career on “The Jeffersons”…and let’s just say that Roxie was no “Helen” and Sy was no “Tom” in real life…
LENNY: ‘MY MOM STEPPED TO MY DAD LIKE A SCENE OUT OF GOODFELLAS’
Lenny described the incidents that oftentimes went down when his Pops got caught with his hands in another cookie jar, so to speak. And sometimes Lenny was smack dab in the middle of it. Turns out, our beloved Roxie Roker had some gangsta chick in her, bless her soul.
In other words, she didn’t just sit around and quietly accept her man’s cheating ways, she confronted him and his mistresses (yes, mistresses, as in many) head on. This was all while we were watching her on “The Jeffersons”:
