Former Kiss member Ace Frehley talked to SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” where he mentioned that he got a call from Paul Stanley who has insulted him.
Frehley’s latest appearance on the program came a week after he threatened to “tell some dirt that nobody knows about Paul and Gene” if the Kiss leaders did not apologize for the disparaging remarks they made during an appearance on “The Howard Stern Show”.
Ace said:
“Yes, he did, not long after the show was over. And I was blindsided by the phone call because I saw his name come up on my cell phone. And I spoke to him a hundred different times on that number, and that can be verified by Verizon, who is my cell phone carrier. I figured he was calling me maybe to apologize or at least explain why he said that. Maybe he meant it really more towards Peter (Criss) than me, and whatever the case may be.
”But instead of an apology, I got a five-second phone call which said, ‘F*ck you, Ace. I’m not gonna apologize,’ and hung up. He wasn’t even man enough to let me give a rebuttal and explain why I’m so upset or anything like that…. It wasn’t a text. It was a phone call. And the only reason I picked up it is because it said ‘Paul S‘.
”When it comes to the guys, I never write their full name [into my phone]. God forbid somebody finds my phone. They may not figure out that it’s Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and I would never give out their phone numbers.”
The host Eddie Trunk asked Frehley if he was sure the call was from Stanley, Frehley said:
“Absolutely. And I did screengrabs from [my wireless carrier] Verizon on… It’s the same day as our [previous] interview, and it says [the call lasted] five seconds… Some idiot out there might say, ‘Oh, well. Ace is a graphic artist. He’s really good at Photoshop. He could have probably Photoshopped it.’
”Well, guess what. It’s still on the servers, and I’m still gonna get a bill from Verizon that’s gonna say a five-second phone call from ‘P.S.‘, Paul Stanley. And God forbid I sue them for defamation of character, a judge can order them to pull it off the servers because it’s still there.”