14 DAY TRIAL // When 51-year-old Doug Hutchison married 16-year-old Courtney Stodden, many believed that either the marriage was a scam or he was a very sick man for doing this. The newlyweds did an interview with ABC to defend their romance.
As the video below will confirm, Doug and Courtney claim there’s nothing fake about their romance and marriage, just as there is nothing fake about her seemingly surgically-altered body.
The two say they met when she applied his website for a place on his acting workshop. They exchanged emails for about 4 months – under her mother’s supervision – and then finally met, when they realized they were in love.
“It was a really beautiful and unique way to get to know someone, because we didn’t have the distraction of the physical. We could only get to know each other through our words and our sentiments,” the actor, known for his part in “Green Mile,” says in the interview.
By that time, he already knew that Courtney’s real age was 16 – which, contrary to speculation that she’s lying about it just to get media attention, is actually accurate. ABC checked her out before the interview.
“My world turned upside down. It didn’t make me want to walk away, but it definitely was a struggle inside my heart … because I had already started falling for her,” Doug says of his reaction when he learned Courtney’s age.
So they met and discovered that they were really in love. The idea to get married came from her mother, and was welcomed warmly by the two especially since, legally, they could not have physical relations.
Courtney claims to be a devout Christian, so her next words in the interview should really surprise no one.
“I was a virgin. I knew that if I kept that, I would really be blessed with a beautiful gift. And God did. He blessed me with my soulmate. So I’m really thankful for that,” she explains.
After the Las Vegas ceremony, where only her parents attended, Doug’s family severed all ties with him, but he says he knew this was coming. His management did the same, dropping him the same day word of the unlikely union broke online.
Right now, besides being just regular newlyweds, Doug and Courtney are getting ready for their own reality show. They say networks are making offers for it, and they’re seriously considering it – because they want to show the world that their love story is not a hoax.
