Christina Ricci has spoken about the disturbing moment a man sent her an image of his penis when she was just 11 years old.
Ricci appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this week and spoke about an incident that happened back in the early nineties.
Explaining how she came to receive the photo, Ricci told Jimmy that she and her friends had been prank-calling a store when she received the unsolicited image.
"When I was 11, I had a group of girlfriends, and we would all call 1-800-Mattress," she said. "We prank-called them so much that we ended up having a regular guy that we would talk to named Jared."
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After calling the store several times, Ricci said that one of her friends gave the man her address, which is when the situation escalated.
"One of these idiot girls gave Jared her address, and he sent a picture of his penis in the mail," the Sleepy Hollow star said.
"It was a printed-out photo developed at CVS Photoshop or something."
Although she and Kimmel made light of the situation by joking about sending his d**k photo 'to the drugstore', Ricci went on to say that none of the girls told anyone about the incident.
"No one told anymore. We just stopped calling. It certainly was the first d**k pic I saw." she said.
Not long after the disturbing incident, Ricci got her first big role of Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family.
Ricci has previously spoken about her child fame, telling PEOPLE that she'd had some incredible experiences over the years.
"I’ve had some incredible experiences and loved working as a child," she said.
"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."
While many were concerned about the impact of stardom on the youngster, Ricci viewed her career as an ‘escape’ and even said that ‘real life’ was worse than fame.
Speaking about her difficult childhood, she told Entertainment Tonight: "When I first started, and still as an adult, this career has always been an escape for me."
The Yellowjackets actor continued: "All the little things that sort of are negative about the industry and the career, they’ve always been things that I’ve just been like, 'Well, real life is worse'."
According to Ricci, she enjoyed acting as it increasingly became an outlet for her.
She said that sets were often where she felt the safest as a child, explaining: "As a kid, it was an escape from, like, a horrendous childhood and just getting to go away - be in hotels and be on set and be with other adults and be valued."
Topics: Celebrity, Crime, Jimmy Kimmel, Film and TV
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