Jeremy Jackson admitted that after long days of filming on the ’90s beach series, he would often “sneak” into the trailers of his female “Baywatch” co-stars and smell their dirty swimsuits.
The actor made the shocking – and disturbing – confession in Hulu’s new documentary “After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun,” which was released Wednesday.
“Puberty on ‘Baywatch’ was painful,” said Jackson, 43. “I was too young to flirt with the girls, but old enough to want to.”
Jackson joined the show at age ten and spent his entire teenage years on set alongside bombshells such as Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, Yasmine Bleeth, Donna D’Errico and Nicole Eggert.
“I would usually sneak into (the women’s) trailers after they were done and grab their dirty bathing suits,” he continued. “Let’s just say I smelled every p—y on ‘Baywatch.'”
However, Jackson admitted that Eggert was the main target of his creepy behavior.
“And Nicole was clearly the big one,” he continued. “We had a very intimate moment, she and I, that she never knew about.”
Jackson, who played Hobie Buchannon on the hit series, noted that Eggert was one of the few people on set he “looked up to.”
During the filming of the documentary, producers revealed Jackson’s secret to Eggert, and she said she was not shocked by the revelation.
“I knew Jeremy very well, so I’m not surprised at all,” Eggert, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, told producers with a laugh.
“There’s nothing Jeremy could say that would freak me out,” she continued. “I’m not even mad at 14-year-old Jeremy. I mean, puberty on a show like this? I love adult Jeremy for being honest about 14-year-old Jeremy.”
However, Jackson said that working on the sexy series in his teenage years made him want to “grow up long before” he was actually “grown up.”
The actor, who played the son of the character played by David Hasselhoff, began using drugs during his final year on the show and eventually became addicted to crystal meth.
“I remember David saying, ‘Are you smoking weed or something?’ And I thought, ‘Jesus Christ, they think I smoke weed?’ I could never tell them the truth. What would they think?'” Jackson recalls in the documentary.
“When you’ve not slept for five days and you’ve been smoking crystal meth, the worst thing that can happen is for someone to look you in the eye and say, ‘Dude, are you OK?'”
Jackson was finally arrested in 1999, the same year the show ended. He spent 90 days in jail and later checked into rehab.
“My life slipped through my hands like sand,” he said.
This wasn’t Jackson’s only run-in with the law, however. In 2005, he was arrested for setting up a meth lab in his home. Over a decade later, he was also behind bars for stabbing someone to death in Los Angeles.
In 2015, he also became the focus of controversy after he was thrown out of Celebrity Big Brother for exposing fellow actress Chloe Goodman’s breasts on television.
Jackson, Eggert and Electra were reunited at the documentary’s premiere in Los Angeles earlier this week. Anderson, Hasselhoff and D’Errico, however, all missed the event.
