A Cautionary Tale

Remember those days of youthful indiscretion? Those heady days when you were out doing whatever felt good at the time while your parents were trying to rein you in with warnings of "don't do something that you may regret later"? Some of those mistakes are easily covered, others....not so much as Kim Basinger is now painfully aware of (HT Kevin McCullough).

Kim Basinger feels "vulnerable" because her daughter's teenage friends have seen her naked.

The 55-year-old star is mortified some of 13-year-old Ireland's male classmates have seen her raunchy films, and refuses to get out of the car when she drops her daughter at school.

She said: "At my daughter's school these boys are now 13 or 14 years old and they know more about my business than they should.

This is the kind of thing our parents were warning of. A few minutes of "it feels good now" are causing pain for Ms. Basinger and her daughter, twenty years later. I hope for Ms. Basinger's sake (and that of her daughter) that this is a real "crisis of conscience". Both she and her daughter now need to come to grips with the mistakes of her past.