Personal Life
Schemel was born the middle child of three children and grew up in Marysville, Washington, close to Seattle where she would later become musically active.
Schemel is openly lesbian, commenting to Rolling Stone that "it's important" and that she's "not out there with that fucking pink flag or anything but it's good for other people who live somewhere else in some small town who feel freaky about being gay to know that there's other people who are and that it's OK." One of Schemel's girlfriends acted as Courtney Love's personal assistant during Hole's 1994–1995 world tour, while promoting Live Through This. Also in the mid-1990s, according to an inside source, Patty was in a brief relationship with drummer Polly Johnson of 764-HERO. Patty now resides in Los Angeles, California with her wife, Christina Soletti. In 2010, Soletti gave birth to their first child, a daughter.
In the early 1990s, Schemel developed a drug addiction to heroin. She also refused to be part of close friend Kurt Cobain's drug intervention in March 1994, claiming that doing so would be hypocrisy, as she "was strung out how dare I go there and say anything about someone else's abuse when I'm doing it too." On March 18, 2010, Schemel appeared in bonus footage for the VH1 program Sober House with Dr. Drew discussing her addiction and sobriety. She also took part in the MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert in 2010, which is focused on women's recovery from drug addition to sobriety.
Along with still doing music, she owns a dog walking/boarding/daycare business. She also appeared in an episode of LA Ink.
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