The incident took place in 1991, the same year the actress starred as Wednesday Addams in ‘The Addams Family’
Christina Ricci is recalling a disturbing moment from her childhood.
While appearing as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on April 10, the actress, 45, spoke about a time when a man sent her a photo of his penis when she was a preteen in 1991.
“When I was 11, I had a group of girlfriends, and we would all call 1-800-Mattress,” Ricci told host Jimmy Kimmel, further explaining, “We prank-called them so much that we ended up having a regular guy that we would talk to named Jared.”
After many calls, Ricci told Kimmel, 57, that things took a turn for the worst for her and her friends when “one of these idiot girls gave Jared her address, and he sent a picture of his penis in the mail.”
“It was a printed-out photo developed at CVS Photoshop or something,” she continued.
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As Ricci and Kimmel made light of the incident, even poking fun at the idea of the man looking through his photo order and approving of the private part picture, the Yellowjackets star said she could not recall if the mail piece sent had a return address.
The actress also told the comedian that none of the friends in the group alerted a parent or the police about the situation. “No one told anymore. We just stopped calling,” she said.
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Kimmel later joked to Ricci that the man “invented the d— pic, really,” to which she responded, “It certainly was the first d— pic I saw.”
“I mean, that’s a lot of effort. He gets an ‘A’ for effort, and he also gets a ‘P’ for pervert,” Kimmel then teased.
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The year when Ricci got the penis photo from the store worker fell around the same time she starred in her breakout role of Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family.
She previously made her film debut at the age of nine in Mermaids (1990), and later went on to continue her child actor roles in Casper and Now and Then, both released in 1995.
Ricci opened up to PEOPLE about her child stardom in a 2018 interview, stating, “I’ve had some incredible experiences and loved working as a child.”
The mother of two added, “I loved working. I loved being a kid who had a talent. I loved being good at something. I loved all that positive reinforcement I got every day. I loved getting to use my imagination in a way that really created things. It was incredible to be able to do that so young.”
