You’ll never guess the inspiration behind one of Madonna’s most memorable hits
Jennifer Grey’s new memoir “Out Of My Corner” hits bookstores next month. In a new interview with PEOPLE, the Dirty Dancing star opens up about her close friendship with Madonna and how she inspired one of the pop star’s most memorable hits.Quick backstory: Grey dated Matthew Broderick, who she met on the set of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, for four years in the mid-’80s.
At one point, the two were engaged, but she called off the wedding and started dating Johnny Depp instead. At the time, she was also close friends with Madonna.“It was like a f*cking bonfire,” she tells PEOPLE. “But none of my friends knew who he was.
We didn’t watch that TV show. Madonna didn’t watch 21 Jump Street!”Grey and Madonna appeared in the 1989 movie Bloodhounds of Broadway together.
It was around this same time that Grey ended things with Broderick.“She told me she wrote ‘Express Yourself’ about me breaking up with Matthew,” the actress recalls. “She played it for me in her car.
