During a 2017 interview on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," Keanu Reeves conjured the fuzzy memories of an incredibly bizarre moment. Reeves and his family settled in Toronto by the time he was 7, per Insider, and it is during this young period that he was babysat by the Godfather of Shock Rock, Alice Cooper.
The rock-and-roll icon's image alone could spook a kid, but Reeves did not recall the extravagant stage makeup at the time. When asked if the experience was scary as Fallon held up an image of the gruesome Cooper on the "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" album from 2011, Reeves responded, "Well, he didn't look like that." The rocker clearly has a different vibe than his on-stage persona.
How on earth did this babysitter scenario unfold? Sometimes it's as simple as who you know. Reeves' mother, Patricia Taylor, was a costume designer and worked with plenty of rockers, via Showbiz Cheat Sheet. The family lived on Hazelton Avenue in Toronto, the same street where Nimbus 9 Records was based. "She was in rock-and-roll, in the business, and they had friends and she had friends, and so Alice Cooper, I'm told, babysat me," Reeves explained. He seems to share the same disbelief as everyone else over the peculiar story. "I mean, I don't know how that could actually possibly happen, but it did supposedly," he told Fallon.
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