Meghan McCain Gets Candid About Life in Hollywood in Her 20s: Drunk Tattoos, First Dates & More Memories

Meghan McCain Gets Candid About Life in Hollywood in Her 20s: Drunk Tattoos, First Dates & More Memories

Meghan McCain took a trip down memory lane this week as she reminisced about her time on the West Coast in her 20s and early 30s.

The View co-host and daughter of late Sen. John McCain held almost no detail back in a lengthy throwback post on her Instagram Thursday morning, candidly detailing her time living in Los Angeles and making memories with hairstylist and close friend Josh Rupley.

“[Josh Rupley] with the green hair, me with the pink. I was living in Hollywood in what could best be described as the ultimate bachelorette loft with a balcony that looked directly at the Capitol records building on Hollywood and vine,” McCain, 34, recalled.

“I had giant gold angel wings in my living room, lots of blue velvet and 70s gold mirrored furniture and a closet bigger than my bedroom,” she added, explaining that she wanted her apartment to look like Graceland meets Scarface.

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At the time, McCain shared walls with actors, porn stars and vine stars, she wrote, and she made a point to go to “every SINGLE club and kitschy bar in LA.”

For her 30th birthday, she threw ” an over the top” party at the famed Chateau Marmont, plus an “after, after party” at the Sunset Marquis, she wrote.

That wasn’t all she had time for, though: The television personality also shared that she went on “dates with the weirdest, most fun, most creative and also the most dysfunctional men” a type she “personally found to subsist in LA.” She joked that most of those men had a piqued curiosity in her because of her conservative politics, likening her to “some endangered creature from another planet.”

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#TBT - @joshrupley with the green hair, me with the pink. I was living in Hollywood in what could best be described as the ultimate bachelorette loft with a balcony that looked directly at the Capitol records building on Hollywood and vine. I had giant gold angel wings in my living room, lots of blue velvet and 70s gold mirrored furniture and a closet bigger than my bedroom. I wanted my place to look like Graceland meets Scarface (seriously google it, my place was amazing and I did a spread in refinery 29 showing it off). My neighbors were actors, porn stars and vine stars. I went to every SINGLE club and kitschy bar in LA, went on dates with the weirdest, creative, eccentric and also the most deeply dysfunctional men (theres a special breed I personally found to subsist in LA) who all thought me being a republican made me some endangered creature from another planet but were curious nonetheless. They always took me to the Sunset Tower restaurant for a first date. Josh and I got drunk tattoos on the sunset strip, I co-hosted the all time most fun and wild daily tv show Ill ever work on (with the truly the most creative people Ive ever met). We drove to Palm Springs on the weekends, stayed up all night dancing at every gay bar but always ended the night at the Gold Coast, drove to Malibu on Sundays, I threw an over the top 30th Birthday Party for myself at both the Chateau Mormont AND the sunset marquis for the after, after party. I have so many hundreds of crazy/beautiful memories than I could possibly write out on an Instagram post. Some that Ill never, ever share ;) - nor will Josh so dont even try, hes a vault. I think I had more fun in my twenties than absolutely anyone else in all of media (at least political). I am grateful for a ride or die friend @joshrupley who has known me through every incarnation of my life. I agree with the adage that everyone should live in LA once before it makes you soft and NYC once before it makes you hard. There are many photos documenting this particular moment in time you can find skewed all over the internet. Also for everyone who ever called me an ice queen - you never really got the chance to know me.

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Love life aside, she spent many nights making memories with Rupley and building her burgeoning career.

“Josh and I got drunk tattoos on the sunset strip, I co-hosted the all time most fun and wild daily tv show Ill ever work on (with the truly the most creative people Ive ever met),” she added, referring to her time on the news program TakePart Live on Pivot.

Prior to that opportunity, McCain had worked on her docuseries, Raising McCain,for the same network. She also spent time as a writer for The Daily Beastand contributor on MSNBC.

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“I have so many hundreds of other beautiful and crazy memories than I could possibly write out on an Instagram post,” she wrote, playfully adding, “some that Ill never, ever share – nor will Josh so dont even try, hes a vault.”

“I think I had more fun in my twenties than absolutely anyone else in all of media (at least political),” she wrote.

McCain ended her lengthy recollection by expressing her gratitude for Rupley and his friendship and told her followers that there was plenty of evidence of her wilder days on the internet.

Now living in New York City, McCain is The View‘s reliably conservative voice, regularly tangling with her co-hosts over politics.She previously admitted that this can make her come off as tense and angry on the show. But in her Thursday Instagram post, she wrote that there was a softer side to her that only some get to see.

“For everyone who ever called me an ice queen you never really got the chance to know me,” she wrote.