Lenny Kravitz Tells How Parents’ Rocky Marriage Was Nothing Like “The Jeffersons”
ROXIE’S & SY’S MARRIAGE STARTED OFF ROCKY WITH MUCH FAMILY TENSION
Lenny said that from the beginning, his parents’ marriage was rocky because his Jewish side of the fam’ didn’t even show up to their wedding:
Via Telegraph: ‘My dad was a sergeant, a Green Beret – the most hardcore, above the Marines. He was a very hard man.’ He fought in Korea, as did his younger brother, Leonard. Sy came home alive. Leonard did not. ‘He got blamed for that. His parents. Just the fact that his little brother followed him to war.’ That blame hadn’t eased by the time Sy married Lenny’s mother – ‘there wasn’t a white person at the wedding,’ Kravitz says. ‘And I had a great relationship with my Jewish relatives, and I knew nothing of this until I got older.’
Like we always say at ILoveOldSchoolMusic, celebrities have accomplished great things, but neither they, nor their lives, are perfect. They’re simply perfectly flawed human beings, just like the rest of us and that is A-okay. We all live and we learn.
