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Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider Defends His Marriage In Debate About “Creepy” Age Gap Relationships
When it comes to his wife, Dee Snider’s loyalty appears to be unwavering.
The legendary frontman of Twisted Sister has never been shy about standing up for himself and what he believe. And this extends to his love for his partner Suzette Snider as well.
The rebellious rocker recently joined in on an online debate about age-gap relationships and defended his own marriage on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Highlights
- Dee Snider defended his decades-long marriage to Suzette Snider during an online debate about age-gap relationships.
- The legendary frontman shared his opinion after a social media user tweeted, "age gap relationships were creepy."
- “Wait…what? She’s only 5 years younger than me! Lol!” the heavy metal icon said.
- The singer previously revealed he met his wife, Suzette, when she was 15 and he was 21.
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The Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider joined an online debate about age-gap relationships and proudly defended his 43-year-long marriage to Suzette Snider
Image credits: Dee Snider / Instagram
Image credits: Dee Snider / Instagram
In a tweet that has since been deleted, a social media user said, “age gap relationships were creepy,” as quoted by Newsweek.
The heavy metal legend clapped back with: “Wait…what? She’s only 5 years younger than me! Lol!”
Later on, he wrote another tweet to defend his relationship with his wife of more than four decades.
“I met my wife, Suzette, when she was 15 and I was 21,” the heavy metal legend previously said in an interview
Wait…what? She’s only 5 years younger than me! Lol! https://t.co/6cgynflMSS
— Dee Snider🇺🇸🎤 (@deesnider) September 18, 2024
What are you trying to say…Michael.
Suzette was 15 and I was 21. I didn’t adopt her. Her mob family threatened to kill me on the first date. I’m still alive. Why? Because I showed respect and restraint and 45 years later we are still together. Fuck you. https://t.co/O7G7axapxK— Dee Snider🇺🇸🎤 (@deesnider) May 6, 2021
“When I had nothing Suzette was there, when i made it big in the 80s she was there, when I lost it all in the 90s she was there (and I never thought for a second she might leave me) and today she is still with me. To the end,” he said.
The couple first met in the 1970s when Suzette, a teenager at the time, used a fake ID to get into a Twisted Sister show without even knowing who the band was.
After meeting in 1976, the couple tied the knot in 1981 and have since remained together through all of life’s ups and downs
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Image credits: Dee Snider / Instagram
“I met my wife, Suzette, when she was 15 and I was 21,” Dee told The Sydney Morning Herald in 2019. “She turned up to our show on her cousin’s ID and thought she was seeing a girl band. I saw her and flipped.”
“She was this hot Italian beauty. I told her I’d be famous one day. We’ve been together ever since – that’s 43 years,” he continued.
The singer has also never shied away from admitting that he has gone for counseling with the mother of his four children.
Dee and Suzette are parents to four children, Jesse, Shane, Cody, and Cheyenne
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Image credits: Dee Snider / Instagram
“Suzette and I married in 1981 and nearly broke up in 1984. Twisted Sister was at the top of the charts and it went to my head. I became a megalomaniac. We ended up going to counselling,” the metal-head said.
“By 1992, I’d lost it all and Suzette went back to work until I got back on my feet. She is a costume designer who came up with the band’s logo, did our make-up and made my costumes,” he continued. “Suzette has stuck by me through thick and thin.”
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
Hear me out: I guarantee you that I was no more mature at age 21 than I was at age 15. (Then again, I'm now 42 and I've still got the maturity of a 13-year-old boy -- tell a fart joke and I'll laugh for days.) BUT, we do (somewhat arbitrarily) place the age of "adulthood" at 18. So, while Dee and Suzette may have emotionally been on the same maturity level when they met, he was still an adult and she was still a minor, legally speaking. Things were definitely different in the distant past (when girls were married off VERY young) and even in the 70s/80s, it wasn't seen as overly weird if a high-school-age girl was dating a 21-year-old who was already in college. I think we view it as VERY creepy/weird now (as we should!) but sometimes we have to look at the past with a tempered lens and realize that they didn't view things then the way we view that same thing now. If that makes any sense. XD All else aside, good on them for having a loving relationship for 43 years!
Brian irby 3 months ago
Sure, I would have thought it was weird and inappropriate back then, but somehow it must have worked. They have been together for over 40 years. No need to have to defend himself against anonymous people on the internet who don't know him, his wife, their family, or anything about them.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
Hear me out: I guarantee you that I was no more mature at age 21 than I was at age 15. (Then again, I'm now 42 and I've still got the maturity of a 13-year-old boy -- tell a fart joke and I'll laugh for days.) BUT, we do (somewhat arbitrarily) place the age of "adulthood" at 18. So, while Dee and Suzette may have emotionally been on the same maturity level when they met, he was still an adult and she was still a minor, legally speaking. Things were definitely different in the distant past (when girls were married off VERY young) and even in the 70s/80s, it wasn't seen as overly weird if a high-school-age girl was dating a 21-year-old who was already in college. I think we view it as VERY creepy/weird now (as we should!) but sometimes we have to look at the past with a tempered lens and realize that they didn't view things then the way we view that same thing now. If that makes any sense. XD All else aside, good on them for having a loving relationship for 43 years!
Brian irby 3 months ago
Sure, I would have thought it was weird and inappropriate back then, but somehow it must have worked. They have been together for over 40 years. No need to have to defend himself against anonymous people on the internet who don't know him, his wife, their family, or anything about them.
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