When Led Zeppelin came back to New York to play Madison Square Garden, Josette asked her mother to meet the band and bring her some clothes. She expected to be dragged home immediately. Instead, her mother was all smiles and went home apparently quite content for her daughter to cuddle up with the group. "Years afterwards I said to her: why did you let me do that? Her answer brought tears to my eyes. She said she was afraid that, if she didn`t let me, I would leave her."
Even at the height of the sexual revolution, the rules of the groupie game were still set by men and none of the girls was invulnerable. The dynamics within Led Zeppelin soon became difficult. Josette claims: "Jimmy [Page] and Robert [Plant] used to like threesomes. I didn`t enjoy that because Robert was demanding and you felt used with him. He just discarded you when he was done."
Nevertheless, Josette says she felt she had no choice but to continue sleeping with them until the drummer John Bonham "saved me and made me his girlfriend". When asked how she felt after having spent the night with someone who treated her like a prostitute, she shrugs. "I would look at myself in the mirror and laugh," she says. "Well, it`s still Robert Plant! You know, it wasn`t some kid from a gas station."