“You go from getting laid once or twice a year to getting laid a hundred times by a hundred different women. We all have our issues and vices, and I saw Gene’s behavior affect him and the band sometimes in a negative way.”
Frehley added: ““[Gene] would [bleep] almost anything. Short, tall; plump, svelte; attractive, merely tolerable.”
The result?
“[He] seemed to live in a state of perpetual infestation,” Frehley said of Simmons’s battle with lice.
Simmons, whose mother, Flora, is a Hungarian Jew who survived the Nazi concentration camps, had his own probems with Frehley during the band’s heyday.
In his autobiography, Simmons wrote that Frehley once got dressed up in a German Nazi SS uniform and knocked on Gene’s hotel room door and yelled at him in a German accent.
“Fact: Ace has been a drug addict and alcoholic for 35 years,” Simmons told The Post. “Fact: We love Ace and wish him all the best.”
(The above photo on the left features me and my brother in-law, Jeff, with two original KISS members, Simmons and Paul Stanley, along with two replacements for Ace (Tommy Thayer) and Peter Criss (Eric Singer.)
