Then she punched him, and she sobbed, and she called her kids and reassured them that everything was going to be O.K., even though, as she puts it in the play, “I do not recognize the voice coming out of my mouth.” She picked up her husband on a street corner in Brooklyn, after he was released on bail, and she asked him if it was true (yes, and he said he needed help) and if he had ever touched anyone (he swore he had not). When the police made it clear it was not a mistake, she pulled over to the side of the road and threw up. This was a man who, as she says onstage, “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.” How can this be? she recalled thinking. Corman, at first you think there must be a terrible mistake. What do you do when your husband of two decades - father of your three children - is suddenly revealed publicly to have a shameful and disturbing secret? Her husband had been arrested on child pornography charges. The police were at her house, her teenage daughter sobbed through the receiver. But three and a half years ago, while driving to work on a “semi-terrible TV show,” as she put it, she got a phone call that can’t even be described as the kind of call nobody wants to get because it would never even occur to most people that this call would be possible. “Oddly,” he continued, “she’s only become more so, which makes me fear for her at times, but I also admire her bravery.” Corman as “incredibly open and loving” - a rarity in the world of film, he said.

They would appear alongside an article from The New York Times highlighting the couple’s wedding 21 years ago.Īt the time, a friend described a young Ms. Corman gestured behind her, where an image of her and her husband, the director Jace Alexander, would be projected onto a screen.

She was in gray jeans and a T-shirt, barefoot in a small studio on the first day of rehearsal for the play she has written and will star in, “ Accidentally Brave.” “This is not one of those shows where I’m here to tell you that I was O.K., and then I wasn’t O.K., but now I am.” “I should let you know I am not O.K.,” said the actress Maddie Corman, 49.

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