The Sex Scandal Teacher GOAT Gets Her Own Documentary and Surprise! She's Still Insane
Source – After a child rape scandal, incarceration and a near-divorce, Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Faulaau are still going strong, 22 years after the then 34-year-old teacher started up a sexual relationship with her then 13-year-old student.
The relationship became a tabloid fixture of the late ’90s. … Speaking out in a new “Autobiography” for A&E, Letourneau gets emotional as she reflects on media coverage at the time.
“People ask how I met my husband, how did it turn into romance and how is it that you fell in love?” she says in this exclusive sneak peek at the special. Addressing the news and tabloid headlines from back in the day, she adds, “It’s shock value, that’s what it’s all about, shock! I call it media carnage, road kill. Blood.”
“It’s not how it’s portrayed, sixth grade, in the media, when anything developed in our relationship, he was entering the 8th grade, age wise,” she says in another clip, trying to defend when and how everything unfolded. “Sounds young, I get it. Was young, I get it.”
Lord help me, I’m a sucker for watching the greats of the game come back to bless us with their presence. It just gets me in the feels every time I see Jack Nicklaus at Augusta. Bill Russell showing up to some Celtics number retirement. Michael Jordan in the stands at a Tar Heels game. It find it ironic that in the same week the Red Sox held an alumni game featuring all time greats like Pedro Martinez, Wade Boggs and Luis Tiant, the GOAT of Sex Scandal Teachers, Mary Kay Letourneau comes out of the clouds with her own life story.
For you youngsters out there who are not familiar with Mary Kay’s body of work, First of all, shame on you. History is important. You can’t appreciate the present without an understanding of your past. Second, here’s a brief, sort of back-of-the-baseball-card list of her career highlights.
Mary Kay Latourneau was one of the SST pioneers. A combination of looks, heart, determination, hustle and an utter lack of judgment that has rarely been approached, never mind matched. She was the daughter of a California State Senator who went to an all-girls Catholic school, was a cheerleader and got her degree from Arizona State where she was a self-described “party animal.”
At ASU she got pregnant, married the dad, they had three more kids and moved to Washington state where she got a job teaching elementary school. She taught Vili Faulaau both in 2nd grade and again in 6th grade, but managed to wait a few years until he grew up to start a sexual relationship with him. Well, A year, to be exact. She started cheating on her husband with the lad when he was 13. I pause for a moment while you wrap your brain around that. Never mind. There’s not enough time in the world to process that. Instead, look at these:
She became pregnant with Vili’s child and gave birth to a daughter in prison. For his part, her husband moved their kids to Alaska, where I always assumed they lived alone in a remote cabin with no TV or Internet and he fell asleep crying every night with a gun barrel in his mouth.
She was released from jail after 3 months and put on probation with the terms being that she stay away from her teenage boyfriend. Which she did. For a few days. Two weeks after her release cops caught the two of them, mid-bone, in the back of a car. But too late to keep Vili from putting the puck in the net yet again, as she went off to serve a now 7-year sentence and had Baby No. 2 in prison. Somehow they managed to author a book together, published in France, Only One Crime, Love. By the time she served this sentence, Vili was 21 and they got married almost immediately. He had started a burgeoning career as a night club DJ, where the couple hosted “Hot for Teacher Night” promotions. They had a little bit of a falling out a year or so ago, but have managed to stay together for the sake of the kids. And based on this documentary, are well on their way to their own personal Happily Ever After.
So that’s how you get your own episode on Biography. To all you aspiring Sex Scandal Teachers, this is what you are aspiring to. MKL is the one who set the bar and she’s crazier and more delusional than she was in her prime. It’s her career that remains the gold standard and why I reject so many of these stories as not blog worthy. As Joe DiMaggio used to put it, he played hard every game for that kid in the stands who had never see him play before. If you didn’t see Mary Kay Letourneau, you owe it to yourself to find her documentary and appreciate her greatness.