Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!

Mike Dirnt


*Mike Dirnt, born Michael Ryan Pritchard, lived in poverty, born to a heroin-addicted mother and a white father.

*Mike was born on May 4, 1972 in Rodeo, California

*When Mike was seven, his adoptive parents divorced, and he bounced between the two untill finally settling in with his adoptive mom and older sister

*Mike struck out on his own shortly after settling with his adoptive mom, working, among a handful of jobs, at Rod's Hickery Pit where Billie Joe's mom was a waitress

*Dirnt rented a room on the side of Billie Joe's house at one point

*Mike married his girlfriend Anastasia in August of 1996, they now have a daughter named Estelle-Desiree born in April 1997

*The pressures of being in Green Day have become to much for Mike and Anasasia's marriage to withstand and they are now seperated

*Mike says he is still very good friends with Anastasia & calls his daughter his "hero"