Brooke Shields recalls a 'Friends' scene that shook her relationship with Andre Agassi
Brooke Shields recalled the extreme and very scary reaction of then-partner Andre Agassi on her scene with Matt LeBlanc in hit comedy series Friends.
Shields, who made it to the list of some A-list guest stars who appeared in Friends recently reflected back on how Agassi reacted to her ‘licking’ scene with co-star LeBlanc.
The actress played Joey Tribbiani’s stalker Erika in The One After the Super Bowl: Part 1, of the series.
As described by her, "In the scene, I (Erika) am supposed to lick Joey’s fingers, because they’re the hands of a genius, and I want to devour them, and I’m a nut. He was cute—he was, like, ‘I’ve washed my hands and they’re all clean.’ I was, like, ‘I had a mint!"
Besides being a big career moment for the actress, this scene also caused some turmoil in her relationship with Agassi, who apparently could not stand seeing Shields act in such a way with her co-actor.
As she put it, "Andre was in the audience supporting me, and he stormed out. He said, ‘Everybody’s making fun of me. You made a fool of me by that behavior.’ I’m, like, ‘It’s comedy! What is the matter with you?’ I learned later that he was addicted to crystal meth at that point, so that irrational behavior I’m sure had something to do with that."
Previously in Agassi's autobiography that came out in 2009, he also opened up about the incident, where he broke all of his tennis trophies, one by one, after returning home from the Friends set and ripped apart the walls.
"Of course I’ve watched Brooke kiss men onstage before. […] This is different. This is over the line. I don’t pretend to know where the line is, but hand licking is definitely over it" he wrote.
The actress is in the limelight lately for unearthing some big topics in her powerful new documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.
Back in 2020, the world was a very different place. Let’s be real, I don’t even have to tell you why. But perhaps one thing that you don’t remember quite as well is how the entertainment industry of the time was still reeling from the literary and cinematic phenomenon that was the FiftyShades of Grey franchise. Studios and streaming platforms were all over the place trying to figure out whether they should leave it at that or try to jump on the erotic bandwagon now that the saga of Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) had been over for two years. And then Netflix decided that it had no time to waste and released 365 Days, the first movie of a trilogy that would adopt all the Fifty Shades orphans scattered across the globe.
But much like Fifty Shades of Grey itself, 365 Days didn’t come without its fair share of controversy. The movie was called out for romanticizing rape, sex trafficking, and domestic violence due to its dubious plot about a mafioso keeping a woman captive until she falls in love with him. On a lighter side, the movie also got some heat for its realistic and relatively explicit sex scenes. Some called it glorified porn, while others were in awe of just how authentic it all felt. One scene, in particular, had viewers wondering whether or not the actors were actually having sex on camera. Indeed, a lot has been said about 365 Days’ infamous boat scene, but, in the end, what is the truth behind it?
Based on the first novel of the erotic trilogy of the same name by author Blanka Lipińska, 365 Days is a love story between an Italian mafia boss and a Polish businesswoman. Or maybe it’s a film about severe Stockholm Syndrome. It’s kind of hard to tell. Basically, Massimo (Michele Morrone) becomes obsessed with Laura (Anna-Maria Sieklucka) after seeing her on the beach on the same day that his father was killed by a rival gang. Massimo himself was injured in the attack, and Laura’s face was the last thing he remembers seeing before losing consciousness. He spends the next five years looking for her all around the world. He finally finds her again while she’s traveling through Sicily with her good-for-nothing boyfriend, Martin (Mateusz Lasowski).
So what does Massimo do now that he has found his mystery woman? Does he ask her out on a date? No, he kidnaps her and gives her 365 days to fall in love with him. Which, of course, she does, and it doesn’t even take her a whole year. Initially enraged by being made a prisoner by some mobster, Laura slowly acquiesces to Massimo’s desires, until she begins to have feelings for him herself. These feelings start out as merely carnal but soon develop into something more.
'365 Days' Caused Backlash for Its Depiction of Abuse and Consent
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Unsurprisingly, the film came under some heavy fire for how it deals with topics such as abuse and consent. Many have accused 365 Days of glorifying rape, sex trafficking, and domestic violence, and it’s hard to say that they are wrong. The movie does portray a woman being kidnaped for sexual purposes as something romantic. The same can be said about the repeated instances in which Massimo violently restrains or manhandles Laura. Furthermore, despite Massimo’s constant remarks that he won’t do anything to Laura against her will (except kidnaping her, of course), he repeatedly touches her in a sexual way without her consent. All of this is framed as arousing by directors Barbara Bialowas and Tomasz Mandes. At the time of its release, the discourse around the movie was inescapable.
But not all the discourse surrounding 365 Days is as harrowing as accusations of rape glorification. There are also some more lighthearted controversies regarding the film. More specifically, there was a lot of debate about the movie’s ultra-realistic sex scenes, which were so well shot and acted that many viewers were convinced that the actors were indeed having sex on camera. One scene, in particular, took the internet by storm: Massimo and Laura’s first (and second, and third…) de facto sexual encounter aboard a yacht.
It all starts when Massimo takes Laura to one of his family’s many nightclubs. At the party, Laura is harassed by a man from a rival gang, and Massimo shoots him in the hands. The next morning, Massimo and Laura argue about the incident in his yacht. Massimo blames Laura for the assault, claiming that she dressed too provocatively to rile him up. Laura, on the other hand, says that it’s not her fault that one of Massimo’s acquaintances tried to assault her. Tempers rise and the two begin to take their fight to different parts of the boat. Eventually, Massimo grabs Laura by the arm. She pulls back and, in doing so, falls over the rails, into the water. Massimo jumps after her and saves her from drowning.
Are the Sex Scenes in '365 Days' Real?
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When Laura wakes up in her cabin, she’s shocked to find Massimo soaking wet beside her. She realizes what happened and invites him into bed with her. What follows is a very graphic sequence of sex scenes - or at least, as graphic as a sex scene can get without showing any genitals. Even so, many viewers were convinced that Michele Morrone and Anna-Maria Sieklucka were actually going at it. Indeed, the work of cinematographer Bartek Cierlica in this scene is so well-done, and the performances of Morrone and Sieklucka so uncanny, that it’s hard to tell fact from fiction at a first glance.
When asked about his strategies for shooting intimate scenes, he stated: “We wanted the camera to be as much invisible as possible, to let them act, so indeed the takes were very, very long. We created the most intimate atmosphere we could for the actors. We reduced the on-set crew to an absolute minimum. As it was handheld I was following their action, and trying to show their passion in a natural but beautiful way. We wanted this sex to be pretty authentic. We wanted this sex to be pretty authentic. We wanted the viewer to hear their whispers, heavy breaths and we wanted to show the sweat, passion. Be natural, authentic, but not to cross the border of pornography.”
Morrone also dispelled rumors about the scene being real. According to Entertainment Tonight, the actor spoke about it in a now private Instagram Live video back in 2020, in which he stated that the scene “seems like real because we are good actors.” In an interview with Polish website Plotek.pl, the actor also commented on another part of the movie that got some extra attention: the oral sex scene that takes place early on in the film, in which Massimo receives a blowjob from a flight attendant. According to Morrone, prosthetics were used to make the scene more realistic. “It was awkward, but it was funny,” said Morrone before recalling that he had some trouble getting into character as he would start laughing whenever the cameras began to roll.
You and Myra Frances shared UK TV’s first lesbian kiss in a 1974 BBC drama, Girl. What are your memories of this taboo-breaking event?VerulamiumParkRanger Well, I remember being very nervous about the whole thing. Then I got over it. Then I was worried about how my parents, who lived in a quiet suburban area of Liverpool, would cope. I thought: “My poor mum! The neighbours will be whispering: ‘Did you see your daughter on television?’” By the time we came to record, this great director [Peter Gill] didn’t make a fuss and said: “So this is the bit where they kiss … All right, quick kiss, let’s carry on.” I was just nervous about people’s reactions. But my mum was great, and the neighbours got over it quickly.
What do you think Wendy in Life Is Sweet actually thought of Aubrey and have you ever tried saveloy on a bed of lychees, prawn in jam, trotter with eggs or pilchard curry?Vhsstilllives and EddieChorepost The easy answer to those last ones is: no. Even the descriptions make me feel sick. Wendy was fond of Aubrey and thought he was an idiot, but a nice idiot. She was trying to help him. The bit I love the most is when he starts kissing her feet, and she says: “I might have trod in dog poo.” He was a ridiculous guy who would do anything to make an impression.
Did you really work at the perfume counter of a department store to get in character asBeverlyin Abigail’s Party?PasqualeDeRosa72 I did work on the perfume counter in a big department store – Owen Owen in Liverpool – when I was 15 and still at school, as a Saturday job to get some money. I accidentally charged a woman a fortune for a bottle of perfume that turned out to be the display one with a “not for sale” sticker on the bottom. I didn’t know you were supposed to sell perfume in a sealed box. When she came back, she was really sweet. When I was building my character for Abigail’s Party, I went to watch the girls doing the makeup in the big London department stores as part of my research.
How do you find the humanity in such an outrageous, larger-than-life characteras Beverly?stephenkavanagh34 There are some awful, outrageous and totally selfish people in this world. Beverly’s one of those. She loves putting her husband down because she’s bored stiff with him, and always looking for guys to have flings with. When I was doing the play at Hampstead, many a night after the show we’d be having a drink in the bar and lots of guys would come up and say: “I know that woman. I’ve been had by that woman. I’ve been chased by that woman,” and laugh. So it was good fun. I loved it.
What are your memories of working withDennis Potter? What was the atmosphere like on those two finaltelevision dramas, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus?brucevayne1000 Dennis Potter was one of the most talented, clever writers this country has ever produced. It was very sad we lost him before we should have. In Karaoke, I had a disfigured face because the storyline was that the husband had smashed a bottle when he was drunk and cut her cheek and lip. I had the most awful time in makeup, having my face all glued.
My favourite was The Singing Detective. It’s so unusual: the singing, the storyline. It’s painful, but it’s fun. I found it fabulous. I most remember the sex scene in the woods. The night it was due to go out, I went to buy a Sunday newspaper from my local shop, and the headline read: “BBC braces itself for biggest sex shock ever.” This was my scene! Mary Whitehouse went berserk and every journalist was trying to get hold of me. Again, I was most worried about my parents, but they coped very well. It’s quite tame by today’s standards. I can’t remember much about the filming other than we were in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly!
I’ve always thoughtactors need to find something, no matter how small, to like about their characters when playing the villain or fool. Did you find anything you liked about Mrs Bennett in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice?WomanofWolfville I love Mrs Bennett! She was an absolute monster, but she was a very sensible woman because she had five daughters and had to find husbands for all of them. In those days, if you didn’t have a rich husband, that was it. And as soon as she heard there was one around, she’d be like: “Mr Bennett, have you heard?” I loved her. I based her a little on an aunt who was very eccentric and over the top, but brilliant. She would burst through the door going: this, that, and the other. I didn’t reveal that until my aunt had passed, because I didn’t want to upset her.
Do you have a preference for comedy or drama?Miapatrick What I’ve loved about my career is that I’ve managed to do both. At one point I thought I might be getting stuck a little in comedy, then along came Life, the [2020 BBC] Mike Bartlett drama with Peter Davison about the families in the big house in Manchester, that I could really immerse myself in. This September, I’m doing a second series of the Tom Basden BBC comedy, Here We Go, playing this Liverpool mum who is a real nutter; I love her. What I like about my job is that you never know what’s around the corner. Pam from Gavin & Stacey can be a pain in the neck, but she loves her son dearly. She might go off on one at Mick, but they always end up cuddling, and saying I love you. That’s what people love, I think.
I notice you’ve neverdone any Shakespeare. Is there a reason?avongirl
I have done Shakespeare. I played Desdemona. I’ve played Ophelia at Nottingham Playhouse and at Lincoln Theatre Royal when I first left drama school. I’ve done a few bits. It’s too late now. I’m not doing theatre – it’s too exhausting and my brain can’t retain all the lines for two hours. I’ve decided I’ll just do some telly. I’ve always wanted to play Lady Macbeth, but I’m too old now. I’m 76!
How do you view your journey as an actor? Would you change anything?Ignatzratzkywatzky I don’t think so. I’ve had a pretty good time. I’ve earned a living, I haven’t had to work in a bar or wait tables, which a lot of actors do. There is a lot of work for young actors now entering the profession, but there are thousands of young people leaving drama schools every year. I was very lucky when Mike Leigh gave me such a wonderful break in Abigail’s Party. They say: actors don’t retire. The business retires us. I don’t want to film for months and months, getting up at 4am, because it’s exhausting. But I want to carry on working, because I love it.
You and Myra Frances shared UK TV’s first lesbian kiss in a 1974 BBC drama, Girl. What are your memories of this taboo-breaking event?VerulamiumParkRanger Well, I remember being very nervous about the whole thing. Then I got over it. Then I was worried about how my parents, who lived in a quiet suburban area of Liverpool, would cope. I thought: “My poor mum! The neighbours will be whispering: ‘Did you see your daughter on television?’” By the time we came to record, this great director [Peter Gill] didn’t make a fuss and said: “So this is the bit where they kiss … All right, quick kiss, let’s carry on.” I was just nervous about people’s reactions. But my mum was great, and the neighbours got over it quickly.
What do you think Wendy in Life Is Sweet actually thought of Aubrey and have you ever tried saveloy on a bed of lychees, prawn in jam, trotter with eggs or pilchard curry?Vhsstilllives and EddieChorepost The easy answer to those last ones is: no. Even the descriptions make me feel sick. Wendy was fond of Aubrey and thought he was an idiot, but a nice idiot. She was trying to help him. The bit I love the most is when he starts kissing her feet, and she says: “I might have trod in dog poo.” He was a ridiculous guy who would do anything to make an impression.
Did you really work at the perfume counter of a department store to get in character asBeverlyin Abigail’s Party?PasqualeDeRosa72 I did work on the perfume counter in a big department store – Owen Owen in Liverpool – when I was 15 and still at school, as a Saturday job to get some money. I accidentally charged a woman a fortune for a bottle of perfume that turned out to be the display one with a “not for sale” sticker on the bottom. I didn’t know you were supposed to sell perfume in a sealed box. When she came back, she was really sweet. When I was building my character for Abigail’s Party, I went to watch the girls doing the makeup in the big London department stores as part of my research.
How do you find the humanity in such an outrageous, larger-than-life characteras Beverly?stephenkavanagh34 There are some awful, outrageous and totally selfish people in this world. Beverly’s one of those. She loves putting her husband down because she’s bored stiff with him, and always looking for guys to have flings with. When I was doing the play at Hampstead, many a night after the show we’d be having a drink in the bar and lots of guys would come up and say: “I know that woman. I’ve been had by that woman. I’ve been chased by that woman,” and laugh. So it was good fun. I loved it.
What are your memories of working withDennis Potter? What was the atmosphere like on those two finaltelevision dramas, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus?brucevayne1000 Dennis Potter was one of the most talented, clever writers this country has ever produced. It was very sad we lost him before we should have. In Karaoke, I had a disfigured face because the storyline was that the husband had smashed a bottle when he was drunk and cut her cheek and lip. I had the most awful time in makeup, having my face all glued.
My favourite was The Singing Detective. It’s so unusual: the singing, the storyline. It’s painful, but it’s fun. I found it fabulous. I most remember the sex scene in the woods. The night it was due to go out, I went to buy a Sunday newspaper from my local shop, and the headline read: “BBC braces itself for biggest sex shock ever.” This was my scene! Mary Whitehouse went berserk and every journalist was trying to get hold of me. Again, I was most worried about my parents, but they coped very well. It’s quite tame by today’s standards. I can’t remember much about the filming other than we were in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly!
I’ve always thoughtactors need to find something, no matter how small, to like about their characters when playing the villain or fool. Did you find anything you liked about Mrs Bennett in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice?WomanofWolfville I love Mrs Bennett! She was an absolute monster, but she was a very sensible woman because she had five daughters and had to find husbands for all of them. In those days, if you didn’t have a rich husband, that was it. And as soon as she heard there was one around, she’d be like: “Mr Bennett, have you heard?” I loved her. I based her a little on an aunt who was very eccentric and over the top, but brilliant. She would burst through the door going: this, that, and the other. I didn’t reveal that until my aunt had passed, because I didn’t want to upset her.
Do you have a preference for comedy or drama?Miapatrick What I’ve loved about my career is that I’ve managed to do both. At one point I thought I might be getting stuck a little in comedy, then along came Life, the [2020 BBC] Mike Bartlett drama with Peter Davison about the families in the big house in Manchester, that I could really immerse myself in. This September, I’m doing a second series of the Tom Basden BBC comedy, Here We Go, playing this Liverpool mum who is a real nutter; I love her. What I like about my job is that you never know what’s around the corner. Pam from Gavin & Stacey can be a pain in the neck, but she loves her son dearly. She might go off on one at Mick, but they always end up cuddling, and saying I love you. That’s what people love, I think.
I notice you’ve neverdone any Shakespeare. Is there a reason?avongirl
I have done Shakespeare. I played Desdemona. I’ve played Ophelia at Nottingham Playhouse and at Lincoln Theatre Royal when I first left drama school. I’ve done a few bits. It’s too late now. I’m not doing theatre – it’s too exhausting and my brain can’t retain all the lines for two hours. I’ve decided I’ll just do some telly. I’ve always wanted to play Lady Macbeth, but I’m too old now. I’m 76!
How do you view your journey as an actor? Would you change anything?Ignatzratzkywatzky I don’t think so. I’ve had a pretty good time. I’ve earned a living, I haven’t had to work in a bar or wait tables, which a lot of actors do. There is a lot of work for young actors now entering the profession, but there are thousands of young people leaving drama schools every year. I was very lucky when Mike Leigh gave me such a wonderful break in Abigail’s Party. They say: actors don’t retire. The business retires us. I don’t want to film for months and months, getting up at 4am, because it’s exhausting. But I want to carry on working, because I love it.
Look behind the scenes at the climactic sequence in “John Wick: Chapter 4,” set on 222 steps leading up to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris.
The following contains spoilers for “John Wick: Chapter 4.”
The first thing the “John Wick: Chapter 4” fight coordinator Jeremy Marinas thought when faced with the prospect of staging a fight scene on 222 steps leading up to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica was: “My quads and hammies are going to kill me.”
At the same time, he wasn’t exactly surprised when the director Chad Stahelski presented him with the concept. “It’s like, of course that’s what you want,” Marinas said. “You want 100 guys falling down the stairs and you want me to make every reaction and fall different. Of course you do. It was like we were just another day at work.”
In the bravura action sequence, Keanu Reeves’s immensely talented assassin has to defeat a gantlet of enemies to reach the top of the staircase. When it finally seems like he’s made it to the summit, he’s sent plummeting back to the bottom in full slapstick fashion and has to start from scratch while the clock is ticking. After all, he needs to get to the church by sunrise to compete in a duel with an evil marquis (Bill Skarsgard) that will decide his fate. Luckily a foe comes to his aid: Caine, played by the martial arts master Donnie Yen, who had been hunting Wick for most of the movie’s running time and will shoot on behalf of the marquis.
The climb comes close to the end of the nearly three-hour film, and after a flurry of ingenious and relentless fights that feature Wick running around Paris trying to avoid killers who want to collect the price that’s on his head. But somehow it outdoes everything that has come before with its mix of technical proficiency, emotional stakes and Looney Tunes-style tumbles. The plan was to make it a “whole John Wick metaphor,” Stahelski said in a phone interview, where the hero beats up people and then gets beaten up and has to start all over again.
A moment from the action scene on the steps leading up to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in “John Wick: Chapter 4.”Lionsgate
The idea for a fight set on these steps came to Stahelski during a trip to Paris to scout shooting locations. The director, who has worked as a stuntman, was a big fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amélie” and was eager to look at locations used in that film. That brought him to the Sacré-Coeur, which seemed like a good spot for the final showdown. But he wasn’t impressed by the steps that directly face the structure. “It didn’t look that terrifying to the stunt team I had with me at the time,” he said.
Then they walked around the left side of the church and saw the more daunting climb. “You never saw three stunt guys smile faster when we saw those stairs,” Stahelski said. “Everybody instantly knew what we were going to do. There was no verbal communication. It was just big smiles.” In addition to the Buster Keaton of it all, Stahelski had a spaghetti western in mind for the final alliance between Caine and Wick, who must team up to make it to the top before they can turn their guns on each other.
The stunt coordinator Scott Rogers described Stahelski as like a “kid” thinking about what he could engineer at the location. “I’m thinking, mechanically, a guy’s got to go down these steps,” Rogers said. “He just turns, and goes, ‘Yeah, that would be great.’ But it’s not something he wouldn’t have done in his prime.”
Prep work for the shoot began in both Berlin and Paris before cameras rolled, but the team kept rehearsing and altering movements even while Stahelski was filming on another part of the staircase.
According to the stunt coordinator Stephen Dunlevy, the scene was “no more complex than any other fight” on a “John Wick” film, but Rogers added that the very act of scaling the stairs had its challenges. “There’s probably more of a physical toll on it because you are fighting in the middle of steps,” he said. Reeves had to ascend during each take, then reset — the cinematic version of a StairMaster.
Reeves as John Wick shooting his way through multiple flights of adversaries.Lionsgate
And while charging up flights is exhausting, not to mention a great workout, Reeves had to do that while executing the choreography, which Marinas said is a mix of Wick’s regular “gun fu,” judo and jujitsu. He also had to find what little cover there is, ducking behind bodies and trees. “We all know how hard it is just to walk up stairs when we don’t want to,” Marinas said, adding, “Just to think about how well Keanu — not John Wick — Keanu was able to do shooting upwards while stepping. It’s hard enough to be a marksman on flat ground.”
Filming took place over seven sometimes wet nights, during which the crew occasionally had to wait for the Sacré-Coeur’s funicular, carrying tourists up the incline, to pass. There were 35 stunt people involved, some of whom were felled by Wick multiple times in the course of his ascent attempts. Rogers estimated that one man was probably “killed” five or six times on the steps. “He was like Gumby,” Rogers said. At the end of the shoot, Reeves made T-shirts for the stunt performers emblazoned with the number of times they were slain over the course of the entire movie. Some had more than 20 deaths.
Of course, Reeves is no slouch. According to Stahelski, you’re watching him perform everything on the steps himself, except for the “really big stair fall.” That task fell to the stunt double Vincent Bouillon, whose second take, captured with a cable camera, was the one that was used. (During the first take he got stuck on a railing.)
For added protection, some of the steps had hidden padding that could be removed with visual effects, but in certain cases the performers had to take the impact without that cushioning. Rogers said that he was proud that “outside of some bumps and bruises, there were no concussions” among the stunt team.
And for continuity in the final edit, Reeves did have to roll a little bit. “I still gotta throw Mr. Reeves down a couple of stairs,” Stahelski said.
While Reeves was always game, Stahelski did sense a weariness when his star confronted the stairs. “That look John Wick gives when he looks at his watch and actually looks up the staircase, I think that’s maybe 50 percent John Wick and 50 percent Keanu Reeves going, ‘Ugh, Stahelski did it to me again,’” he said. But, Stahelski added, the effort makes the character who he is: “You got to suffer. That’s what’s fun about John Wick. He suffers and he keeps going.”
A Suffolk County sheriff’s civilian mechanic has been charged with leaving the scene of a collision that injured another driver and falsifying a police report about the crash, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney’s office announced the indictment after sheriff’s employee Brian Sloan, 57, surrendered to the district attorney’s office and pleaded not guilty to three felony charges during an arraignment in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead.
Prosecutors said Sloan was driving a department-issued Ford F-250 pickup Dec. 23 on Patchogue Yaphank Road in Patchogue when he ran a red light and crashed into a sedan turning left. Sloan sped away from the crash that injured the driver and totaled the car, prosecutors said.
The driver was taken to Long Island Community Hospital for medical treatment. Prosecutors said an off-duty NYPD officer followed the pickup after the crash and reported his license plate number.
Afterward, authorities said Sloan filed a report to the sheriff’s department that he was on icy roads when he hit a guardrail, about two miles away from the actual crash site in Patchogue.
“This defendant is alleged to have fled the scene of a motor vehicle crash that injured another driver, and then compounded that conduct by allegedly filing false documents with the Sheriff’s Office in an effort to conceal what he had done,” Tierney said in a statement.
Sloan was charged with felony leaving the scene of an incident with personal injury without reporting, two counts of felony falsifying business records, two counts of offering a false instrument for filing and two counts of official misconduct.
Sloan was released on his own recognizance because the charges are not bail eligible, his attorney John LoTurco said.
“Brian Sloan has been a dedicated and loyal civilian employee of the Suffolk Sheriff’s Office for 20 years. Since Brian retained our law firm, he has cooperated with the district attorney’s office, including voluntarily surrendering today for his arraignment,” LoTurco said. “We now look forward to scrutinizing the district attorney’s allegations and discovery in order for us to consider all options and defenses.”
By John Asbury
John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.
'They escaped from the woods': Witness describes scene outside of school
CNN's Don Lemon speaks to Jason Hoffman, a witness who helped children cross the street during the shooting of a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
Contrary to popular belief, she did not go out with a bang.
An Australian porn star has dismissed rumors that she nearly died while shooting a grueling sex scene with a fellow porn star who suggested that his mammoth manhood was to blame.
Angela White, 37, cleared the air regarding the supposed incident on the Only Stans podcast this week.
The X-rated performer — known as the Meryl Streep of porn — told host Glenny Balls that the whole thing was “blown way out of proportion by the media.”
Rumors had started swirling last month after UK skin flick legend Keiran Lee revealed on the “Pillow Talk” podcast that he’d nearly killed White during an intense, hours-long shoot in 2013.
“I put her into hospital and this was actually not on purpose,” Lee, whose real name is Adam Diksa, had described at the time.
“We were shooting content and … we were going at it for over an hour.”
White attended the 2023 Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas.Getty ImagesWhite clarified that her appendix issues were not caused by her co-star’s massive penis.Instagram/Angela White
The on-camera romp had appeared to go swimmingly until the adult entertainer learned that White had suffered abdominal pain afterward.
“She said her stomach was hurting, and she had to go see a doctor,” said Lee, 39. “Apparently her appendix burst in the scene, which could have killed her.”
Then, addressing the elephant in the bedroom, host Ryan Pownall asked if the porn star’s preternaturally large penis — which measures 9.5 inches and is insured for $1 million — played any part in White’s tummy troubles, the Sun reported.
Lee replied: “I don’t know. But listen, I could have killed Angela White [in] our first scene.”
However, his co-star was quick to throw cold water on the raunchy rumor.
“My appendix actually did not burst, but it is true I had appendicitis and did have to have emergency surgery to have it removed,” White, who is one of the world’s highest-paid porn stars, clarified during her podcast appearance.
In fact, the Sydney native detailed the procedure on social media in 2016, describing: “They had to make an incision above my pubic bone and at my hip. The scarring was minimal and the recovery was pretty fast (I did a porn expo 4 days after surgery).”
Adult film actor/director Keiran Lee appeared at the 2017 Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas.Getty ImagesWhite said the story was blown “out of proportion.”Instagram/Angela White
White added that it was “pure coincidence” that her ailment occurred following the vigorous sex scene with her well-endowed co-star.
“There is no medical evidence to suggest his giant dick was pummeling my organs,” White explained on the podcast, before cheekily quipping: “Although he does reach organs that I don’t know should be reached by a penis.”
The three-time “AVN Female Performer Of The Year” award-winner joked that her appendectomy was a blessing in disguise.
“But there’s more room in there, now that [my appendix] has been removed,” she joked. “There’s a lot more room to accommodate.”
The intense romp clearly didn’t turn White off working with Lee, with whom she has collaborated several times since the infamous shoot, per the Daily Mail.
The three-time star of the “Angela Loves Threesomes” trilogy even got “revenge” on her colleague by accidentally biting his testicle during one steamy shoot — an incident that Lee called “the most painful experience” of his career.
“I put her into hospital and this was actually not on purpose,” Lee, whose real name is Adam Diksa, said at the time.Instagram/Keiran LeeWhite took home the trophy for Female Performer of the Year at the 2020 Adult Video News Awards.Getty ImagesWhite has thrice taken home AVN’s performer of the year trophy.Instagram/Angela White
While White’s ap-peen-dicitis is an industry urban legend, porn stars do experience workplace injuries on occasion.
Last month, a reformed drug dealer and biker gang member made headlines after snapping his shlong during a porn shoot gone awry.
