“You will never find true happiness until you can truly accept who you are,” says Daniel Radcliffe, turned Weird Al Yankovic, in the trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Roku’s upcoming film is being billed as a biopic, but it’s not the usual music star biopic you’ve grown accustomed to: In true Weird Al fashion, the project is a mockumentary that pokes fun at the biographical genre.
Weird Al gained fame ridiculing pop culture through parody music and creating original music based on other productions. It took nearly 40 years for a Weird Al album to debut at number one on the Billboard chart.
When told by his manager that the album would probably debut at number one, Al couldn’t help but get excited. “Honey,” his wife, Suzanne Krajewski, comforted him. “They’re just people who love you like they always have.”
Weird Al fell in love with his wife Suzanne Krajewski before meeting her in person
Suzanne Krajewski was a bit skeptical of Weird Al when Bill Mumy introduced her to him. “Then I thought, ‘It’s a little shallow of me to just look at one person.’ People are often so different from how they appear,’” Suzanne said. Rolling Stone. And we clicked right away.”
Weird Al said he fell for Suzanne after weeks of phone conversations. “Going to meet her for our first date, I thought, ‘I hope she’s cute,’ because I could marry her,” Yankovic said. cabling.
Suzanne, a former television and film executive, was just as cute as Al expected. The couple married with no intention of remarrying. Rare Al explained:
“I guess we got married a little late in life, but neither of us had ever been married before and neither of us have any intention of remarrying. I enjoyed being single. But when I got married I found that I was even happier, and when I had a child I was even happier.”
Yankovic had to make some changes to his home after he married Suzanne. strange to said Vice that Suzanne donated several hundred of his shirts to Goodwill shortly after the wedding. He said:
“She ended up wearing some of the t-shirts I wore in high school, which she still had in her early 40s! And they fit him well; she looked great. She helped me stop hoarding stuff.”
Reluctantly, Weird Al also got rid of 40 boxes of fan mail. Weird Al was sad to let go of the trinkets and keepsakes collected over a long career, but they had to go for the couple to enjoy an orderly life. He continued:
“I have kept a lot of the art because it is easy to store. There are a couple of small sculptures that we have kept and there are other things that the fans have worked a lot on, but my wife certainly wouldn’t want them displayed in the house. So it’s more like, ‘Take a picture of it and let it go.’”
Yankovic and his family enjoyed camping out on the deck of their Hollywood Hills home.
Nina, Weird Al and Suzanne Yankovic | Jeffrey Mayer / Alamy
Yankovic’s house in the Hollywood Hills has an interesting history. Its previous owners were marijuana advocate Jack Margolis and rapper Heavy D, who left behind an industrial-grade oven and large shower. Heavy D modeled the house for him, presenting problems for Suzanne.
“A lot of things here in this house are very heavy the size of D,” Yankovic said. Rolling Stone. “My wife is a short woman, she is not very tall and she has a hard time standing on our bathroom counter because they are a little taller than normal.”
It is also likely that an adult movie was filmed there. “My best friend from high school was like, ‘Yeah, I think I saw a porn shot at your house,’” Yankovic said. “There’s a lot of history here: rock & roll, porn, and the Yankovics.”
Despite the residence’s bawdy history, Al and Suzanne raised their daughter, Nina, there. talking to Rolling Stone, Yankovic described Nina as “an ideal girl”. “She likes to play outside, animals and nature,” Weird Al said. “She was always watching TV at her age. Where we went?
girl said Rolling Stone that the family, including their dog, enjoyed camping on the terrace of their house, overlooking Los Angeles. “We scoop out mini marshmallows and put them on sticks and roast them over a candle,” Nina said. “It’s a lot of fun. Sometimes an owl will climb a tree and we look at it through binoculars.”
On February 11, 2021, Yankovic celebrated Nina’s 18th birthday by posting a video of her daughter reaching for her gecko, which was on her face. “Today marks the day my daughter legally becomes an adult,” al wrote. “Sorry, this is the most recent recording I could find of her.”
Suzanne has tried and failed to get Weird Al to swear
Suzanne was skeptical of a romance with Weird Al because she only knew of his eccentric stage persona. She, like many others, was surprised to learn that Al is shy, extremely reserved, polite, and an introvert.
per piece in The New York Times, Weird Al does not raise his voice in anger and does not swear. Suzanne has repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to get him to curse.
Suzanne is just as reserved as Al and prefers to avoid being the center of attention. She briefly made headlines in March 2018 after calling 911 to report a creepy phone call from a man. It was unclear what the person she called said, but Suzanne felt threatened, prompting her to inform authorities.
Krajewski informed authorities at his home that he had seen a man standing in the yard several days before the phone call. The intruder fled after Suzanne saw him.
Sources who spoke to TMZ revealed that police did not believe the events were related, but promised to monitor the home for the intruder and the sinister caller.
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