Teri Still Not Shacking Up in Camper
Teri Hatcher knows how to make the tabloids sorry.
Britain's The Sun is the latest tabloid to bow down in court to the Desperate Housewives star over a story that claimed she used a camper van parked outside her home for sexual encounters with various men.
The tabloid acknowledged that the story, which it printed in August, was "totally incorrect" and apologized to Hatcher "for the embarrassment caused."
Hatcher's legal firm, Schillings, said the paper had agreed to shell out undisclosed damages and to cover the Golden Globe-winning actress' legal expenses.
The firm said that celebrity magazine Heat had also agreed to apologize for printing similar allegations in August.
In December, Hatcher accepted "very substantial" damages from British tabloid The Daily Sport, which published its own version of the camper-sex story in July, alleging that Hatcher used the van so she wouldn't be caught mid-romp by her seven-year-old daughter, Emerson.
The paper called its report "entirely false" and agreed to cover the actress' legal costs, print a front page apology and refrain from reprinting similar allegations.
"Anyone who has ever entered a legal proceeding knows that when you are totally in the right, it still takes a lot of energy to move forward in this kind of proceeding," the actress said in a statement after the case was settled at London's High Court in December.
"This is probably why more celebrities do not fight back against every made-up story...But when a story appeared about me, insinuating that I am an irresponsible and neglectful parent, I had to draw the line.
"I will never allow any tabloid to so egregiously attack the area of my life which I give top priority, and that is my parenting."
Last month, Hatcher made headlines after she went public with a dark truth from her childhood, revealing to Vanity Fair that she was molested by her uncle 35 years ago.
Since coming clean with her secret, the actress has vowed to work as an advocate for other abuse victims in the hopes of raising awareness about violence toward women.
"These experiences that we have in our lives, both personally and professionally, leave us with a choice: The choice to use our experiences to enlighten and empower and change people's lives, and that is the choice that I am getting behind," Hatcher said earlier this month during a press conference in Beverly Hills.
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