Fiona Apple details ‘excruciating night’ with Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson that made her quit cocaine

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Fiona Apple has revealed that she decided to quit cocaine after spending an “excruciating” evening listening to Quentin Tarantino and her ex-boyfriend Paul Thomas Anderson bragging. Speaking to The New Yorker, Apple joked: “Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with QT and PTA on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again.” The singer-songwriter called filmmaker Anderson, who she was in a relationship with in the late Nineties, “coldly critical” and “contemptuous” and described her relationship with him as “painful and chaotic”. She also shared details of her and her band’s time at Sonic Ranch studios in Texas where one band member “accidentally ate snake poison, and watched the movie Whiplash on mushrooms”.