Freaks & Geeks Writer Admits She Tried To Have An Affair With Teenage Jason Segel!
30.08.2023 - 14:21
/ perezhilton.com
Was this a romantic near-miss? Or on the edge of Hollywood misconduct??
TV writer Patty Lin has been dishing the dirt! She dropped a new memoir on Tuesday titled End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood, telling stories about her days on Friends and LOST and everything in between. One story she probably should have kept to herself? One about working on the cult classic Freaks and Geeks.
Patty served as a writer for 12 of the short-lived series’ 18 episodes, and during that time she fell in love — and not with the hugely relatable stories of the kids growing up in the early 80s. No, she fell hard for star Jason Segel.
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That was a problem for many reasons. The first? Jason was brand new to Hollywood — and just 19 years old at the time. She was 28. That’s already a little… questionable. Not the most egregious age gap we’ve seen in this town. But then you have the fact she was a writer on the show — not his boss but in kind of a position of power over him. And yet, she’s now willing to admit, she totally wanted to have an affair with him at the time! She wrote:
This is sounding a little like a love letter… She continued:
The writer recalled spending a one-on-one evening with the future Forgetting Sarah Marshall actor, admitting that was when she knew she had “feelings” for him, despite being so much older. Oh, AND she was in a relationship!
On the way home, the pair stopped at a hotel so Lin could use the restroom, and that’s where she remembers getting (or at least considering getting) bold:
It was soon after that when Lin noticed Segel clearly had feelings for his co-star and onscreen love interest, Linda Cardellini:
It was later on