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Michelle Williams attends the 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, CA on September 12, 1999, one day after her appearance on The Howard Stern Radio Show.
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moddchicc made reference to an infamous interview that actress Michelle Williams gave to The Howard Stern Radio Show in the late 1990s, now seemingly wiped from the Internet. Seeing a perfect way to spend my morning at work, I set about to track said conversation down in whatever format possible, and after arriving at many dead ends finally found it in full in the media archive of a Williams fansite. Recorded on September 11, 1999, Williams sat down with Stern just weeks before the season two premiere of Dawson's Creek and five months into her run as Dottie in a sleeper hit off-Broadway production of Tracy Letts' Killer Joe. What follows is a summary of their conversation's most revelatory, and often revolting, moments.
• After Stern recounts an earlier meeting with Williams' Dawson's Creek co-star Katie Holmes, who he refers to as "weird," Williams calls him "phenomenally magnetic and very sexy." Stern responds that he would go out with Williams if given permission by his wife, adding, "If we just get naked and pleasure ourselves, that's not cheating." He goes on to say that he is "transfixed" by Williams' mouth.
• Williams explains that she completed her high school education via correspondence and received her diploma at 15 years old, the same year she was legally emancipated from her parents. When asked to elaborate on that decision, she says, "I thought I was invincible. I always liked being on my own, I've got a real independent streak, and I wanted to work."
• Pressed to discuss her home life pre-emancipation, Williams briefly discusses her "nuts" father. "He was a commodities trader by day, when I was growing up, and then he would be gone for three months at a time and I never really knew where he was," she says. "It turns out he was in Saudi Arabia looking for Noah's Ark, and he was in the Red Sea looking for gold bars and stuff."
• Discussion then turns to Dawson's Creek, filmed on location in Wilmington, North Carolina. Williams distances herself from the rumored love triangle between co-stars Holmes, James Van Der Beek and Joshua Jackson and claims to be disinterested in partying: "I feel very old. I have a rocking chair and a porch and lemonade." She approximates that she lost her virginity at 14 or 15 years old to an older man "peripherally" in the industry, and says if he is smart he will not contact her before the statute of limitations for statutory rape has expired.
• Conversation returns to Killer Joe. Stern asks Williams whether she performs her nude scene when on her period (yes) and if she has a special grooming regimen for the scene (no). She then talks about staying with close friends, a gay couple, while in New York: "It's a one-bedroom apartment, and they have a couch but it's more like a loveseat and it's really uncomfortable. So I climb into the bed with them and it's lovely, we talk about boys and we put on face masks."
Interview part 1, 2, 3, and 4
