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Courtney Stodden called out Seinfeld star Jason Alexander on Instagram over an inappropriate Funny or Die sketch they appeared in together when she was a teenager.
Courtney, now 31, famously married actor Doug Hutchison in 2011 when he was 51 and she was 16, becoming an instant tabloid fixture in Hollywood. She has since become an outspoken advocate against child marriage, even with parental permission, after claiming that she was exploited by the adults in her life, including her own parents and husband. The sketch in question, starring and written by the Seinfeld star, aired in 2012.
The post comes after Courtney vowed to take down her 'predator' ex after their toxic marriage.
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"I was 17 years old in this photo," Courtney began in her lengthy caption to an image of the 66-year-old actor and writer of the sketch holding a phone up to her breasts.
She continued, "The older I get, the more impossible this is to understand. During this comedy sketch, Jason Alexander repeatedly rubbed his phone across my breasts while saying there was 'no signal' in my head but 'plenty of signal' in my chest. Later in the sketch, he joked that when I turned 18 he’d like to take me behind the couch and 'have his way' with me."
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Courtney went on to write that it has become more difficult to understand what happened to her when she was a minor because, as "the only child in the room," she "didn’t have the legal power to decide" whether she "wanted to participate" in the first place.
She also revealed that her paycheck for being in the sketch went to her then-husband Doug.
"Looking back now," she wrote, "I don’t see comedy. I see a 17-year-old girl whose body became part of an adult joke. People still say, 'You chose to be there.' Legally, I couldn’t make those decisions for myself. That’s the point."
Courtney met the actor at an acting workshop when she was a teenager, and the two married in 2011. The couple became a topic of public scrutiny and fascination, with Courtney making appearances on Dr. Phil and other reality shows alongside her husband-slash-guardian.
Courtney separated from Doug in 2017 and filed for divorce in 2018, which was not finalized until 2020, nearly a decade after she said 'I do' in Las Vegas. Before she was legally wed, she had to obtain permission from her mother, who signed off on the union as Courtney's legal guardian at the time because she was underage.
She concluded the caption on her post, "I can’t change what happened to me but I can ask myself: How did so many adults look at a minor and decide this was acceptable?
"That’s exactly why I speak out today. Children deserve laws that protect them. They shouldn’t have to become adults before realizing the law should have protected them all along."
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