I thought she was the smartest, most wonderful woman in the world. And I loved when people recognized her on the street, which would happen sometimes. When I was younger, I was very impressed with her and thought she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. And my mother would say, 'Oh God, my feet are just freezing to death,' and I would rub one of her feet while she was driving to keep them warm."įor several years, Viva, Auder and Auder's younger half-sister, Gaby Hoffmann, lived in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, which was famous for having been home to Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Virgil Thomson, and Bob Dylan, among others. "So at some point we were in the Rocky Mountains with no heat.
After her parents split up when she was 5, Auder and Viva went on the road, traveling cross-country in a beat-up car with a cat they picked up along the way. As a kid, she played the daughter of a dominatrix in an underground film. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. Viva appeared in the Warhol films Lonesome Cowboys and The Loves of Ondine, and she was on the phone with Warhol in 1968 when he was shot. Viking/Penguin Random HouseĪlexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Alexandra Auder's memoir is Don't Call Me Home.
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