Actress whose Law & Order director husband pleaded guilty to child pornography charges has created a play about the saga – and reveals they’re still married four years later
- Maddie Corman, 49, of New York, stayed with director husband Jace Alexander
- In 2016, Alexander, 54, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges
- Ms Corman fears that staying with him she is undermining #MeToo movement
- Accidentally Brave opens this month at the DR2 Theater and reveals her story
Maddie Corman, 49, of Harlem, New York, remains married to Jace Alexander (pictured together in 2014)
An actress whose husband pleaded guilty to child pornography charges has created a one-woman play about her ordeal – revealing the couple are still married nearly four years later.
Maddie Corman, 49, of Harlem, New York, explained how after rehab, couples therapy and much agonizing over ethics and forgiveness, she still remains with her director husband Jace Alexander, best known for his work on Law & Order.
Yet speaking to The New York Times, Ms Corman expressed her fears that by staying with her husband she is undermining the #MeToo movement, having been one of nine women who last year spoke out against the playwright Israel Horovitz.
In 2016, Alexander pleaded guilty to two felony counts related to possessing and sharing illegal and obscene performances of sexual conduct by a child under 17.
The director was sentenced to ten years probation and had to register as a sex offender.
Ms Corman, the star and writer of Accidentally Brave, which opens this month at the DR2 Theater in the city, discovered Alexander’s sordid crimes after the father of her three children was arrested three and a half years ago.
She recalled how at first she thought there had been a terrible mistake: ‘[This was a man who] listens to NPR and makes bad jokes and sings songs at the piano and reads The New Yorker and plans for the future and who doesn’t flirt with my friends.’
However, when her husband of 21-years confirmed it was true, she picked him up in Brooklyn following his release on bail and claims to have punched him.
During the saga, Ms Corman started writing down her experience, and her friend Kristin Hanggi – who directs Accidentally Brave – encouraged her to turn it into a play.
In 2016, Alexander pleaded guilty to two felony counts related to possessing and sharing illegal and obscene performances of sexual conduct by a child under 17. The director was sentenced to ten years probation and had to register as a sex offender
Alexander (pictured with Law & Order stars Jesse L. Martin, left, and Jerry Orbach, right) is currently producing a documentary – working title Tsunami – about pornography and how destructive it can be
And while the actress admitted she fears what people will say and whether it could hurt her children even more, Ms Corman told the publication that she often reminds herself that doing the performance won’t be as scary as ‘living it was’.
The actress, who revealed she still suffers flashbacks, added: ‘I wouldn’t wish what happened to me or my kids on anyone.
Ms Corman and her husband, whose mother is the actress Jane Alexander (pictured together), had to sell their family home
‘But the way that I feel, and honestly the way that my husband feels, is that when we keep things in the dark, that’s when shame and pain actually grows.’
Ms Corman and her husband, whose mother is the actress Jane Alexander, had to sell their family home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, as ‘everyone knew’ in the ‘small town’, while their children switched schools.
Now the breadwinner, her husband is currently producing a documentary – working title Tsunami – about pornography and how destructive it can be.
According to a police report at the time, Alexander published a short film on the file-sharing site Torrent showing a 12-year-old girl performing sex acts in June 2016. Another video found on his computer showed a six-year-old girl masturbating.