Does Joan Jett wear a wig?

She shaved her head in 2000.

Maybe in the late 80s.

Could be a wig here.

Wig?

She's bald. She left a wet wig and dirty syringes in the bathroom sink of a loft party I was at. I think she injected into her neck because the hand towels were covered in blood. Her head is shaved with bald patches. She's been a junkie forever. Can't sing either can she?

R5 You post this a lot. Do you have an axe to grind with her?

She's old enough to be my mother and doesn't interest me at all. Your the one obsessed with her talentless junkie ass R6. 5 of the posts here are from you.

R7 What party was this? When was this?

R5 This never gets old.

Is R5 the weirdo troll who insists that Joan is heterosexual?

R10 Yep, I believe so. I've heard she's Bi.

She don't give a damn about her bad rep.

Joan has a regular wig/hairpiece swap with her friend Janeane Garofolo.

Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if she wears a wig for some public appearances. An old acquaintance had done hair & wigs for theatre and TV and was a pro at spotting wigs on actors, singers, newscasters, etc. I've learned to assume that about half of the people you see onstage or on TV are wearing fake hair. It's not that they're all bald, it's that many cannot be bothered trying to achieve camera-ready hair day after day after day.

Most First Ladies have owned and worn wigs, by the way. Just saying.

R13 Who did she say wore them?

R13 She knows Janeane? They did do the Howard Dean campaign together.

My friend , a lesbian, toured with Joan for years as her sound person until the early 2010s. Joan is not a junkie, but I don't know about being bald. I will ask my friend.

I know Joan shaved her head when she was in The Rocky Horror stage show in the 90s. Her hair was real when she was fronting Evil Stig (Miz Zapata's band, The Gits, after Mia was murdered). The Pacific Northwest music scene is small, and I also know the woman who did her hair for those shows.

I think Joan Jett would laugh her ass off being called Bisexual.

R16 Joan shaved her head at the start of 2000 to signify a new beginning. She got the "Rocky Horror" job because of it. I knew she wasn't a junkie.

Who wears wigs in that scene?

I don't know about a wig back in the MTV days but she probably does now as middle age is probably graying and thinning her hair.

ouch. didn't notice the repetition of "probably"

R19 Since then, she's had cheek implants in 2005, veneers that are too big for her mouth, and an ill advised facelift in 2013.

This looks tres wiggy to me.

Signature old-school look: not a wig.

ALOT of entertainers wear wigs. They don’t have to shave their heads or be bald.

Recent blonde do. Not a wig.

R25 Recent? Haha, that's from 1997.

WHET JHETT?

In the wind.

R28 THAT’S a wig. She has some of her front hairline on her sides showing but sweetheart that’s definitely a wig. And I know my wigs.

R29 Wouldn't it have flown off?

No hon! I actually zoomed in on that more and that’s a 3/4 cap wig. When you secure that to a wig cap properly, nothing is going to blow that off. How do you think those bitches film movies with wind and water their hairpieces stay on?

R31 Haha, you're funny. There are other pictures from that event and it's clearly her hair. One of the appearances she made before getting that horrible facelift.

I don't know, but I saw her concert tour this past summer (with Heart) and she still kicks ass. She draws a young crowd in addition to us oldsters, which surprised but gratified me. There were some 17 year olds in front of us, one of whom wore a denim jacket with "Cherry Bomb" hand-painted on it. They were there expressly to see Joan...left before Heart came on..

R33 Probably due to all these younger artists mentioning her.

Really R32 you're even funnier because you didn't post any of the picture pussy face. hahahahahahaha

R35 Here

I saw her in August with Heart in Utah. She was awesome. Still wearing that black jumpsuit. You see her belly is getting bigger. For her age is still lots of energy. I really think it's a wig too. Her damn weird manager talked for a bit. I wanted to tell him to shut up.

Except for maybe her early days with the Runaways when she was only 16 years old she had always looked unwell. Maybe it was partially due to her tough rock chick look (dyed black hair, heavy black eyeliner) but as she aged she looked progressively worse. She has looked like a junkie for years.

R37 And she's a vegetarian, you'd think her waist would be slimmer.

R36 hon I'm not going to say that there's a possibility you're not wrong but a lot of those pictures were taken from a distance. These closeups are clearly a wig. Now, there are other pictures in that album where she's not wearing a wig but the particular performance you and I are speaking of I'm 99.7% sure that's a wig. There are a lot of celebrities that wear hair pieces that you would never guess. This is especially true of people who perform on stage. The wig or hairpiece gives the hair a more full appearance enhancing the stage presence.

R40 I agree. What wig wearers do you know of?

I'm just going to go with the men since I can pretty much always tell on the TV, though it took me awhile to catch Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback. Of course William Shatner in Star Trek, Sean Connery in James Bond and Robert Pattison in one of the Twilight movies because he had already shaved his head are three very well known wigs. Robert Pattinson isn't bald he had just shaved his head before filming began. Alex Trebek has actually been wearing a hair piece for years. They are only now saying that he is wearing one as the result of his chemo. Remember John Travolta looked good for a long time as did Nicolas Cage. Charlie Sheen sometimes wears a piece.

The signs of wig wear and that can be identified from the ones in R40 are, you don't see any scalp at the part or any of the hairline. You'll also notice a lot of times you won't see a lot of the front hairline though this has gotten pretty rare with better lace front wig and toupees like Rupaul wears and many other TV shows use. I just know how to look for them because I've worked with them. Emilia Clarke's on Game of Thrones was an excellent example. The most obvious sign of a wig or hairpiece though is from the back. Hardly ever, ever, except on a very expensive custom piece, is a crown put in to the back. That is almost the sure way to tell whether someone has a piece on.

How about the women?

R42 You might like this.

I've met her twice. Once in the mid 80's and again a couple years ago. I can't say if she wears a wig but I can say she is not a junkie and more importantly, doesn't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks about her.

There ya go.

R5 well at least she didn’t kick your child in the cuntbone.

[quote]she's a vegetarian, you'd think her waist would be slimmer.

Carbs/booze+menopause= thick middle

R48 She's not much of a drinker, if at all.

Fuck you r43 Thank you r44

R50 Are revealing women wig wearers taboo?

Honey there’s just too many and women wear them quite often at different times. Look at what I said.

I don't know if she's a junkie or not, but she sure as hell looks like a druggie. I'm sure she indulges in that sort of thing frequently.

R53 That's just her look.

"That's just her look."

And just how would you know? And why did she shave her head? Was her hair falling out? Heavy drug use can cause that.

R55 She shaved her head because it was the end of the 20th Century and she felt like it.

R56, are you Joan Jett's brain? If not, then you don't know shit about her drug use or why she shaved her head.

R57 She said in an interview on Roseanne's show in 2000. The video has been removed from YT.

R57 I was wrong, it's still up.

R59 She looked hot.

R54 it’s just her look to look like a druggie? Strange. I would want my look to be anti drug.

R61 it's not a druggie look.

R52 i love when you call me "Honey".

If she does, how many does she own?

She is hot.

Try and ask her.

Just shitloads of hair dye, that's all.

If she wore a wig during the "Up Your Alley" period in the late 80s, does she still have it?

I don't see why people are getting so offended over this.

You should try this.

R69 You should try this in addition to the thread by R70.

Bump.

R69 She's the queen.

I think it's highly likely that she wore a hair piece at some point, during the "big hair" days of the late 1980s, but other than that, maybe just a few times spread out over the decades, but not often. And to those who are thinking she would be bald without it, no, not if this video is any indication... Click on the link, and you'll soon notice her scalp, as her hair is blown in the wind- proving that it is indeed her read hair.

I don't know why all this talk about her wearing (or needing to wear) a wig anyway. I mean, back in 2000, when she shaved her head by choice, the shadow of her hair was still clearly visible, making it obvious that she was in no way really balding.

As for claims of her being a junkie, far as I know, and from her own words, she used to be into heavy drinking and dabbled in other things, but that's been behind her a long time. She says that now, she does pot, but that's all.

R74 I guess people think with all the work she had done, a wig wouldn't be out of the question.

r75- Maybe so. And maybe she does wear a small hair piece for a thicker look along her hair-part- but that's just a guess, I don't know anything about hair-pieces. But she definitely doesn't wear a full wig.

I'm just going to chalk up her thicker looking hair most of the time to the cut. A person's hair-cut can do a lot to make their hair look thicker or thinner, and frankly, I think Joan is probably too low-maintenance to bother with a wig. She would probably feel to over-done with one. If you look at her and her style, she's just not the wig type.

R76 Yeah, I can't see her going with a full wig.

[quote]"That's just her look."

And just how would you know? And why did she shave her head? Was her hair falling out? Heavy drug use can cause that.[/quote]

r55- In answer to your question, we know because she has talked about her reasons for shaving her head many times. All you gotta do is find an interview from around the time she did it, and you'll see where she talks about her reasons- and it had nothing to do with balding or drug use! Why are you so bent on proving her to be a "bald junkie" anyway? It's really strange.

R78 Thank you.

r79- You're very welcome!

R80 That person was/is relentless.

r81- Ya got that right! I just read this dandy little post from him on another thread:

[quote]Joan Jett is a hideous talent free mess. She has no hair...she left her wig in my friend's sink after a party, along with 2 used needles in the wastebasket. Not that long ago....I never heard of her. Regardless, she's a bad example of anything.

Followed by this one:

[quote]Yes, [R264]. I don't think that people shooting up is unheard of at a warehouse party but there were only two bathrooms and one was designated for women. Joan Jett was in there a l o n g time, and left a wig and 2 used needles behind. A few girls were waiting to get in. She wears wigs and has her face pulled tight. It's unpredictable who the people are who go for the whole plastic freak show. Rock and roll is not anarchy when you have no talent. Stevie Nicks had great cosmetic work done - and IONS of talent. Don't ever stand behind a junkie with money. They take their time. A good friend of mine loved to shoot up in the public library. Not that she didn't have her own place and car. She just liked to browse the library at her leisure. Joan Jett is a junkie. With a lot of plastic surgery. This party was at Amsterdam and W126, about 4 years ago. It's not a big story to us. Just that she left her wig in the sink - what the fuck?

I'd really like to know what his deal is, and why he's posting this every chance he gets? Like, does he have it out for Joan or what?! And if his story is true, how the f can he possibly know what really belonged to her that night, when there were other people there too? He even admits that he didn't even know who she was- so for him to now act like he suddenly does is a laugh! He could be mixing her up with someone else entirely.

Anyways, his whole shtick is mystifying to me, and I'd really like to know what gives.

R82 yeah, it's weird. You should help out in this thread.

r84- I'll check it out.

By the way, that dude who says Joan left her wig at his party claims that it took place 4 years ago. That would have been around the time of this video...when she was announced for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. And, she definitely doesn't fit the description of a strung-out mess here. Maybe that guy should take a look at this, and then maybe he'll stop.

R84 Nice. There's also this too.

r85- I'll take a look at them soon. Never known much about her, other than she was with Joan Jett during the 2004 Howard Deen campaign.

May I ask what made you suspect her and Joan of maybe wearing wigs? Do you just like wigs, and because you like Joan and Janeane Garofalo, you kinda hope they wear them? I mean, no judgement here, I'm just curious. And hey, I welcome any chance to talk about Joan, so I don't mind that you started this thread, just wondering what gave you the idea...

R86 I didn't start the Janeane thread, I just noticed them, though I do like her. I do like women in wigs, and I had heard things about Joan on here and elsewhere..

Bumping to see if the Joan troll responds.

She made a huge, fucking deal about shaving her head, even making talk show appearances, so I imagine she was desperate for press and attention.

R89 She looked so hot with that shaved head.

R90, I sincerely hope you found her personality and needs repellent for your own good.

R91 I love her.

B) she left 1 syringe full of blood in the sink and 3 more in the wastebasket. The towels were covered in blood and that tells me she popped a vein. They weren't guest towels but paper ones provided. This was a loft party and we knew people might get high. But it wasn't a big drug party. The wig was the one she came in with. She hat a hat over it and she left only in the hat - according to our friend. Her WIG was soaking wet and left in the bathroom sink. Spiky black with some burgundy kind of colour. Jett was not NICE, but a bitchy wrinkled woman before she occupied that bathroom for almost an hour. And she wasn't the best known celebrity there. Her assholeness didn't stand out until she left. Then people talked. It was an inside cool party for behind the scenes people - makeup artists, dancers, musicians and a few promoters.

Jett was a supreme asshole. She's a full on junkie. The bald part was not a surprise. But she must have burst a vein and hit her wig and made a swipe at cleaning it up. There was blood above the mirror too. Musicians would never shoot up in a bathroom of a makeup artist. They just wouldn't do it. (there was a fire escape) But Joan Jett didn't care. She's a lifelong junkie who made tens of millions for songs that your kid could compose on a see and say. Terrible singer and nasty ass bald woman. She's been bald for over 20 years. That's not a secret. Like I said the party was held by a makeup artist and other behind the scenes people. Jett only wears wigs. We didn't keep it, but we did photograph the rat she left behind. Not even a good wig. Ha. That ugly old bitch.

R93 Pics or it didn't happen. Put up or shut up.

Huh? The OP asked a question. We gave details. Why does it disturb your troubled mind so much R94? Joan Jett is a virtual nobody. She didn't even ruin the party. But her arrogance and junkie baldness stood out. Yeah she wears a wig. Like people with eyes didn't know before this?

R95 Take a look at R84's post.

More than 55 of the posts on this thread are from you R95. You're a very sick man.

Haha. My post about how many INSANE posts on this thread come from the same person was really meant for R96! Fifty-six of the posts on this thread come from THAT same obsessed man. R96. Dude bumped his own thread twice too!!

Joan Jett is a bald junkie. She may have cleaned up her dirty needle habit - but she remains an old wrinkled bald woman who can't sing.

R98 Projection.

Isolate that bitches posts @ r99 and count them. 58. Everyone knows you're crazy here and not only on this thread or topic. No one can help you. But someone must speak the truth about the talentless Joan Jett. She's a forgotten nobody. Still me and my friend Katie had to spend over an hour cleaning up after Joan Jett's bald junkie ass after she sprayed blood and left used needles and her wet wig in my friends bathroom. Bitch is a dirty PIG and left BALD. Joan Jett is a bald junkie is pretty well known. I only know two songs by her and they're both so simple minded & dumb. Nobody is impressed with old Joan Jett.

Count R99 posts. He's a total nutjob.

R100 I bet you have Janeane Garofalo stories, right?

Was bald junkie joan jett famous back when datalounge gays were young? I've never heard of Janine Garofalo. Who the fuck is she? Did she play fake guitar in Joan Jett's fake band? Sad this obsession about junkie nobodies.

R102 Since you are prone to making up stories.

So, as we know it, Joan Jett is a dirty bald whore with a bad needle habit and there are folks here willing to wrestle each other in the absence of facts with a whore with a bad needle habit.

Is there anything nice to suggest you or "them?"

R104 You seriously think I'm arguing with myself?

[quote]You seriously think I'm arguing with myself?

You do everything alone. Then you answer your own posts on many threads of DL. Sad old man.

It's so weird to try to participate in a thread where 60, literally SIXTY, of this thread's posts are generated by the same Joan Jett obsessive creep that might demonize her in real life, right? And so I sign off and leave the rest of you to it.

[quote]B) she left 1 syringe full of blood in the sink and 3 more in the wastebasket. The towels were covered in blood and that tells me she popped a vein. They weren't guest towels but paper ones provided. This was a loft party and we knew people might get high. But it wasn't a big drug party. The wig was the one she came in with. She hat a hat over it and she left only in the hat - according to our friend. Her WIG was soaking wet and left in the bathroom sink. Spiky black with some burgundy kind of colour. Jett was not NICE, but a bitchy wrinkled woman before she occupied that bathroom for almost an hour. And she wasn't the best known celebrity there. Her assholeness didn't stand out until she left. Then people talked. It was an inside cool party for behind the scenes people - makeup artists, dancers, musicians and a few promoters. Jett was a supreme asshole. She's a full on junkie. The bald part was not a surprise. But she must have burst a vein and hit her wig and made a swipe at cleaning it up. There was blood above the mirror too. Musicians would never shoot up in a bathroom of a makeup artist. They just wouldn't do it. (there was a fire escape) But Joan Jett didn't care. She's a lifelong junkie who made tens of millions for songs that your kid could compose on a see and say. Terrible singer and nasty ass bald woman. She's been bald for over 20 years. That's not a secret. Like I said the party was held by a makeup artist and other behind the scenes people. Jett only wears wigs. We didn't keep it, but we did photograph the rat she left behind. Not even a good wig. Ha. That ugly old bitch.

r93- This makes me laugh out loud, OMG! You do realize that a while back, you made a nearly identical claim about Pat Benetar, right? You claimed that she's bald, rude, puked her "wig off" at your party, AND to top it all off, you said she kicked over a table and broke furniture or some such thing, LOL! As the great Bette Davis would say, you are just tooo much, sir, LOL!

We Joan fans know that she's no saint, but the days of her antics have been behind her for years and years. Nice fan-fiction though. Thanks for the laugh.

[quote]She made a huge, fucking deal about shaving her head, even making talk show appearances, so I imagine she was desperate for press and attention.

Actually, she only made a couple of talk show appearances during that time- like 2 or 3- max. The public were the ones making a huge thing of it, not her. Got anymore lies I can correct you on?

^^To r89.

[quote]Actually, she only made a couple of talk show appearances during that time- like 2 or 3- max.

And those appearances, including the bald head, were just a blip on her screen of the Hollywood, rocker life, just like any average chick who wakes up and decides to rake a buzzer over her head and take off, a lot of the stuff men usually crave her for? Cuz she's getting absolutely NO ATTENTION now, right?

r111- She's very spiritual and religious (more than she's willing to openly discuss). She did that some 19 years ago for religious and spiritual reasons, not for media attention. And technically, as far as her credits go, only 2 talk show appearances are listed for her online- one being Roseanne (who has always been a huge fan) and another being The Rosie O'Donnell Show, which wasn't a personal appearance, but a Rocky Horror cast appearance, so you really have it all wrong.

In fact, she's getting more attention now- just for her longevity in the music field, than she ever did back then! And in both cases, SHE wasn't out looking for it.

This is as far as I read for obvious reasons: "She's very spiritual and religious"

r113- Good. That explains your ignorance. Not that it wasn't already obvious.

R108 Wow, I didn't even see the Benatar post.

r113- Not sure why stating that she's very religious and spiritual would stop you from reading, so no, your reasons were far from "obvious".

R117 Hot take.

Hot Hot Hot.

Just 3 years ago...face and hair dripping sweat. Scalp clearly visible starting at the 2:55 point.

Verdict: Someone in this thread is a major liar with a wild imagination.

Case closed!

R119 But how do we know for sure?

r120- Did you watch the video at r119? That's (among other things) is how we know for sure!

R121 She may have worn one at other times. Maybe she doesn't like the thinness.

r122- I've little doubt that she has worn a wig and/or hairpiece from time to time, just to accentuate her look. Yes, I do believe some pictures make that quite apparent too. BUT, she doesn't do it because of baldness- that's the thing.

At least one person in this thread is claiming that she wears wigs due to baldness and drugs, and that's not true, as the evidence shows. If she has worn them, she doesn't do it often, and she only does it for an accentuation. That's the difference between what is being claimed here, and what is the truth.

Man, this thread is reminding me so much of Santa Clause; who'd have ever thought that Joan Jett would have so much in-common with jolly old St. Nicholas and his beard, LOL!

R123 Would Joan get pissed if somebody gave it a yank?

R123 Check this one out.

r124, I would think if you just unexpectedly yanked her hair, then yes, she would be pissed. But, if you said you have a hair-fetish and have always wanted to touch and pull hers just once, she might be understanding...That's not to say she'd let you, but she would at least sympathize...

R126 You have to wonder how she decides if and when she'll wear a wig/piece. Does Kenny Laguna have a say?

R123 And this.

r127- Kenny's wife used to help style Joan in her career, but I don't think so anymore. Kenny was totally against Joan shaving her head, for example, but Joan did it anyway.

She might take advice once-in-a-while, but when it comes down to it, she does what she wants to do.

R129 How about the facelift and veneers?

r130- Joan's appearance matters a great deal to her, so those were probably her idea too.

R131 But looking at the 2012 photos, she looked fine, with no need for a facelift. What was she seeing that we weren't that caused her to have one in 2013?

Little Liar.

R133 Yes he is.

[quote]But looking at the 2012 photos, she looked fine, with no need for a facelift. What was she seeing that we weren't that caused her to have one in 2013?

r132- I'm not sure it was a facelift. It could have been just botox or other things. We can never be sure, because Joan has a knack for looking one way one day, and another way the next. Just the subtlest thing can make a difference- so it may very well just be makeup too. No doubt though, that Joan likes to stay looking the best she can. I think it's the perfectionist in her... which is a good thing, provided she doesn't go to the extreme (as that's unhealthy)- and I don't think she has.

R135 She's has the classic "facelift mouth". Very easy to spot.

r135- I'm sure that these days, that sort of mouth can come from other procedures than a facelift.

R137 Okay, her skin looks pulled as well, and her ears. How much evidence do you need?

Her ears?! There's nothing about her ears that look any different than they always have. Show me a pic of what you mean.

R139 Here.

r140- But, you can see her ears very clearly in this video from 2000, and I really don't notice a difference between that and the one you posted from earliar this year. Do you?

Any perceived difference could be an illusion brought on by how different her overall look is in each video.

...And if she did have at least one facelift, then it would just be like I was saying before- she wants to always look her best, that's all.