James Marsden says pal's fiancée confessed she once got off to his “Hairspray” character: 'Corny, I'm so horny'

Nothing could have prepared James Marsden for the NSFW confession he received about one of his more family-friendly film roles.

This week, the actor revealed that his pal's fiancée admitted to him — and his 18-year-old son — that she had her first moment of, uh, self-love while watching him as Corny Collins in the 2007 movie musical Hairspray.

"I don't even know if I should tell this story," Marsden began while visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday. "But I was at a Hollywood event, I brought my son with me, and I ran into a friend of mine and his, at the time, fiancée."

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The 51-year-old actor then explained that, at the time, he didn't know his friend's fiancée that well. "She'd had a couple of drinks and she turned to me — he was standing over here, but not really listening. She goes, 'I have a confession.' And I said, 'Uh-oh. Can my son hear this?' He's 18, but whatever," he said. "She goes, 'The first time I ever masturbated was to you as Corny Collins in Hairspray."

Marsden was, naturally, a bit surprised by the spicy revelation, but he found it oddly heartwarming, too. "I thought that was a really innocent, sort of sweet thing to say because I don't really think of that character — or even that movie — as being something that would elicit that sort of behavior," he said. "But she did!"

Her revelation quickly caught the attention of her fiancé, who turned around and asked what they were talking about. "And she goes, 'Oh, I'm telling him the Hairspray story!'"

Marsden noted that he's "still close friends" with the couple and even attended their wedding.

"Oh, Corny, I'm so horny," host Jimmy Kimmel teased, prompting a laughing Marsden to reply, "Good one."

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Kimmel also took a moment to express his sympathy for Marsden's son having to hear the confession. "There’s no age at which you want to hear that about your dad," he declared. "This is just a bad decision on this woman’s part."

But Marsden said his son took it all in stride: "He just laughed it off and said, 'Someday, I can hopefully be like my father.'"

Marsden starred as Corny Collins — the host of the beloved 1960s Baltimore teen music program The Corny Collins Show — in the hit 2007 movie musical, which also starred Zac Efron, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken, Nikki Blonsky, Elijah Kelley, Amanda Bynes, and John Travolta. It was adapted from the 2002 Broadway musical, which was based on John Waters' 1988 film.

Listen to Marsden recall the awkward encounter in the clip above.

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