Shiri Appleby: Inspired By A True Story

Remember your first high school boyfriend? Shiri Appleby does. "I still have the scars from it," the former Roswell star reveals. "You don't get over things like that." Sounds like things didn't exactly work out ...

"I got cheated on," she explains. "So I slapped the boy across the face." That was great preparation for her new role in the teen thriller Swimfan. "I play Jesse Bradford's girlfriend," she says. "He is her first boyfriend and she is so in love she is convinced she is marrying this guy. Then the new girl at school comes in to steal my man." That's about when art begins to imitate life. "When I found out in the movie that he has cheated on me, I slap Jesse across the face," she laughs. "I was telling him this

September 05, 2001
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