Showtime’s The Go-Go’s charts the band’s meteoric rise, fall, and more.
But before any of that could happen, the ladies had to agree to do the project.
According to Carlisle, they were initially hesitant.
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She totally got us."
In fact, it was a turning point in their relationship.
“It was such a well-crafted story, and we were so happy with the results.
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There were a lot of realizations that I know I made even when I was being interviewed.
I thought, ‘Wow!
I didn’t clearly understand my part in the toxicity until I was actually spewing it.’
“We all went on this extraordinary roller-coaster experience together at a very young age.
Then when you throw in money, drugs, and egos, it’s just so much.
I wasn’t my best self back then, for sure.
Carlisle laments that there wasn’t any reconciliation between her and Olavarria, who appears in the documentary.
“No,” Carlisle responds when asked if there was any healing between her and Olavarria.
But I have really fond memories of her.
We had a lot of great times together and I wish we had done things differently.
Margot really was great.
She was very funny too, she was a larger-than-life character.”
In a2016 interview withBillboard, Olavarria said she and Bello were the ones who founded the band.
“No, no, no, that’s not true,” she says.
“It was Margot, Jane, and myself at a party sitting on a curb.
Margot said, ‘I’ll play bass.’
Then Jane said, ‘I’ll play guitar.’
That left me with a choice between playing the drums or singing.
Then Margot said she has a friend who is a drummer, so I said, ‘Okay, great!
How are we going to start?’
Well, we should invite Charlotte because she will know how to plug guitars into amplifiers.
So that’s how the original incarnation of the band happened.”
Does this mean the band is back together, with plans for a full album in the future?
“And we all have our own things going on but who knows?
Never say never, but we’re not planning on anything like that right now.”
