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Gary Coleman chased Molly Shannon around hotel, put hands under her shirt

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Hello Molly,” out Tuesday, how she was visiting Los Angeles in 1987 and had just been signed by Coleman’s agent, Mark Randall.

Coleman had just left his sitcom and was still hugely popular.“I was over the moon,” writes Shannon, then an NYU student. “If he signs me, I thought, his clients will be me and Gary Coleman!

I’ll have a talent agent who represents Gary Coleman.”In the fall of 1987, when Shannon was back in school, Randall asked if she wanted to meet him and Coleman for tea at the Plaza Hotel.

Coleman was 18 at the time but very small, as he suffered from a kidney disease that limited his growth to four-foot-eight. He was also extremely flirtatious, comparing Shannon to his “Diff’rent Strokes” co-star Dana Plato, who played Kimberly Drummond on the show (and who later died of a prescription drug overdose, after years of substance-abuse struggles).“We had a great time, laughing and joking,” Shannon recalled, and then Coleman asked if Shannon wanted to see the Presidential Suite where he was staying.

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