# Jane Wiedlin’s memoir revisits the Go-Go’s, fame and mental health

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/my-partners-would-all-tell-you-i-was-a-nut-job-jane-wiedlin-on-the-go-gos-fame-and-the-freedom-of-sex-dungeons/
- Published: 2026-11-11T10:00:36+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T10:32:40+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/ng-interactive/2026/nov/11/jane-wiedlin-go-gos-fame-sexuality
- Topics: Culture, Government, Politics

## Key points

- Jane Wiedlin’s memoir recounts her life with unusual candour.
- She describes mental health struggles and relationship difficulties.
- The Go-Go’s remain the only all-female band to achieve their US chart milestone.

## Summary

Jane Wiedlin has published an unusually candid memoir, *TMI*, recounting her life in the Go-Go’s, her relationships and struggles with mental health. She says she wanted to tell her story without making herself look good or hiding difficult experiences, while reflecting on the pressures women faced in the music industry and in her upbringing.

Wiedlin, 68, says she has experienced depression since age 11, lives with bipolar disorder and has made two suicide attempts; she has also been married and divorced three times. The Go-Go’s became the first all-female band to top the US album chart with members who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs, and remain the only group to have achieved that distinction. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.

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