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Guitarist Lita Ford says she left teen girl rock band The Runaways after discovering her fellow bandmates, such as Joan Jett and Cherie Curry, liked girls.

In her new memoir “Living Like a Runaway” Ford says she noticed the girls in her band always talked about girls and never boys. Of all her band members, Jett, Currie, Jackie Fox, Cherie and Sandy West, Ford discovered only Fox wasn’t interested in girls.

“First I found out that Sandy, the one I had bonded with the most, was a lesbian,” Ford recounted in her memoir. “Then I found out that Cherie was messing around with Joan. I was so freaked out that I quit the band.”

In an interview with Huffington Post, Ford says as a teenager in the mid ’70s she wasn’t familiar with homosexuality and that affected her reactions towards the band.

“I didn’t know anything about [homosexuality], and it was still in the closet. Nobody [back then] came out and said, ‘I’m gay,'” Ford told Huffington Post. “When I found out that the girls were all gay in the band, I wasn’t sure how to take it. I didn’t know what it was.”

Ford says that she told her parents the reason for her departure from the band was because The Runaways’s manager Kim Fowley was “too weird.” Eventually the band called her back and Ford decided to rejoin the band. She doesn’t believe her bandmates knew the real reason she quit.

“We just carried on, you know, because it was no big deal,” Ford says. “But to me it was, back then, and it just really threw me for a loop. I didn’t know that people do that.”