Exene Cervenka

At 68 years old, Exene Cervenka has this physical status:

Exene Cervenka (born Christene Lee Cervenka; February 1, 1956) is an American singer, artist, and poet.

She is best known for her work as a singer in the California punk rock band X. Her surname is pronounced as "czer-vehn-kuh".

Personal life

Cervenka was married to John Doe from 1980 to 1985. She met her second husband Viggo Mortensen in 1986 on the set of the comedy Salvation!, a parody of televangelism. Mortensen played her husband Jerome. They married on July 8, 1987. On January 28, 1988, Cervenka gave birth to a son, Henry Blake Mortensen. Mortensen and Cervenka lived in Idaho for three years. They separated in 1992, and were divorced in 1997.

Cervenka married musician Jason Edge, who went on to play in her band Original Sinners. Edge and Cervenka are now divorced.

Cervenka moved from Los Angeles to Jefferson City, Missouri, for four years, and then returned to Southern California. She now lives in Orange County.

On June 2, 2009, Cervenka released a statement revealing that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Well before this diagnosis, she and X had actively supported Sweet Relief, a charity that aids uninsured artists. Sweet Relief was begun by musician Victoria Williams when she herself was diagnosed with MS. In 2011, Cervenka said she may have been misdiagnosed. However, Cervenka had to cancel a Spring 2011 tour due to problems associated with her MS. During a July 2015 interview, John Doe said that the multiple sclerosis diagnosis was a misdiagnosis, that Cervenka, after consulting with various doctors who were not able to diagnose her, is healthy.

Cervenka, as a self-styled "conspiracy therapist," has provoked controversy on social media and on YouTube, under the name "Christine Notmyrealname," by advancing conspiracy theories including the view that the Isla Vista shootings were a hoax designed to bring about stricter gun control laws. After the backlash, she has issued an apology on her Facebook and Twitter accounts and her conspiracy related YouTube videos are no longer available for viewing. However, when pressed in interviews, Cervenka has insisted on a talking point of a "fake" news media, and has given tacit approval to what critics describe as fringe ideologies espoused on message boards and by then-President Donald Trump.

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Music career

At a poetry workshop at the Beyond Baroque Foundation in Venice, California, the 21-year-old Cervenka met 23-year-old John Doe. Cervenka joined the company and began to work there.

Billy Zoom (guitar) and John Doe (bass and vocals) formed X in 1977, with D.J. Bonebrake is joining the bandwagon as a drummer. Doe asked Cervenka to join as a co-lead vocalist soon after, and the pair were also the band's primary songwriters. They released their debut album, Los Angeles, in 1980, and their next six years, five more albums, Los Angeles.

Dave Alvin of The Blasters showed her how to play guitar.

Cervenka published Adulterers Anonymous, her first in a series of four books in collaboration with artist Lydia Lunch in 1982. In 1996, she and Lunch released Rude Hieroglyphics, a spoken word album that was also on tour in support of the project.

The Los Angeles store "You've Got Bad Taste" was co-owned by John Roecker and Cervenka from 1996 to 1999. The store was limited to kitsch and some "off-color" novelties.

Exene ervenková, a 1999 actress, appeared on the cult film Decoupage 2000: Return of the Goddess, alongside guests Karen Black and the band L7. In an interview skit with Decoupage 2000 hostes Summer Caprice, she gave a reading of her poem "They Must Be Angels" and appeared in an interview skit.

Art career

Cervenka's journals and mixed media collages were on display at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 2005 as part of a one-person exhibition titled America the Beautiful. Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan curated the exhibit. In January 2006, an expanded version of the exhibit opened in Washington, New York, at DCKT Contemporary.

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