Actress Molly Ringwald, best known for her roles in The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, shared her candid perspective about her relationship with late director John Hughes on Tuesday. The 57-year-old divulged, on Monica Lewinsky’s podcast, what it meant to be Hughes’ “muse” as a teenager in his 1980 comedies. “In terms of, did I know that I was a ‘muse,’ he told me that but when you’re that age, I had nothing really to compare it to,” Ringwald said. She explained that she had some movie experience before appearing in Hughes’ directorial debut, Sixteen Candles—a role he cast her in solely based on her headshot when she was 15. “But I was still only 15-years-old so I didn’t have a lot of life experience,” she noted. “It didn’t seem that strange to me [being Hughes’ muse]. Now, it does.” Lewinsky, 51, who rose to notoriety after former President Bill Clinton admitted he had an affair with her when she was a 22-year-old White House intern, asked: “Like strange, still complimentary or strange weird, strange creepy?” “Umm, yeah, it’s peculiar,” Ringwald replied. “It’s complimentary. It’s always felt incredibly complimentary, but yeah, looking back on it, there was something peculiar.” She added: “It’s definitely complex and it’s something that I turn over in my head a lot and try to figure out how that all affected me. “I feel like I’m still processing all of that and I probably will until the day I die.” Hughes, who died of a heart attack in New York City in 2009, married his high school sweetheart, Nancy Ludwig, when he was 20-years-old with the pair having two sons.
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