LINNEY BEATEN UP BY BABY BRUTE
Actress LAURA LINNEY still suffers babysitting nightmares after one young charge turned her into a punch bag.
The Kinsey star plays a stuck-up mother who hires Scarlett Johansson to look after her child in new film The Nanny Diaries, and she admits the film brought back terrible memories.
Linney says, "I was not a very good babysitter. I think it was because I was traumatised early on and I was just too scared to do it again.
"There was a couple in the building that I lived in and I went there to babysit their very unusually large four-year-old child. He was a little like a Mack truck, big kid, really big.
"The parents went off to have dinner and this kid just beat me to a pulp. I mean, I was slapped, I was kicked, I was spit on and then he just started to scream like crazy.
"To make matters worse, they had just had their carpets cleaned and I was allergic to the carpet cleaner. So I called my mother and I was like, ‘I don’t know what to do!’ So she came down and she basically took care of the kid and I gave her the $12 the next day because she earned it and I didn’t.
"That sort of scared me off for a while. It was just child abuse in reverse."
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