Relationship With Billie Joe Armstrong
Adrienne met Billie Joe at a Green Day concert on their first tour in 1990, when she asked the singer where she could get a copy of Green Day's album. The two began communicating over the phone, which involved Adrienne discussing her human sexuality class with Armstrong. The first kiss between the two led to an early Green Day song, "2000 Light Years Away."
The long-distance relationship dissolved. Adrienne became engaged to Billy Bisson, the frontman of the Minnesota band, The Libido Boyz, but they broke up.
After arranging many Green Day Minnesota tours for the purpose of seeing Adrienne, Billie Joe asked her to come out to California, inspiring the song "Westbound Sign" from Insomniac. They wed two weeks later on July 2, 1994. The backyard ceremony lasted five minutes, with many different religions represented. Billie Joe remembered their wedding by saying that, "Adrienne just got this ratty old dress and we got married in my backyard." Adrienne found out that she was pregnant the day after they got married.
Their first child, Joseph "Joey" Marciano Armstrong, was born on February 28, 1995 and was named after Adrienne's and Billie Joe's fathers. Their second child, Jakob Danger Armstrong, was born on September 12, 1998.
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