Casey Wilson is more than happy to confess she slept with her boss—in fact, she's downright proud of her accomplishment.
The 33-year-old former Happy Endings star penned a hilarious essay for Cosmopolitan, appropriately titled, "Yes, I Slept With My Boss," in which she details how she finally wooed her hubby and the creator of the ABC comedy David Caspe while the two were working together.
"I have always been attracted to men with "power," despite the fact that the guys I usually dated were by turns: a poet, a magician named Ashley, and a dog walker," Wilson reveals. "This all changed when I was cast as Penny Hartz on an ABC sitcom called Happy Endings and I met the show's creator and boss, David Caspe.
"David was cute and funny and above all else, kind," she continues. "I was head over heels for him, but I think we're all in agreement that sleeping with your boss isn't a great color on anyone. It's a horrible idea. A cry for help at best that usually results in a drunken office party debacle that gets retold years after you've been sent home clutching your belongings in a paper bag."
Still, despite the warning signs, Wilson chose to pursue a relationship with the writer, blaming her "low dignity/high confidence," although her advances were never returned.
"Finally, one drunken night he turned to me and said, 'If we didn't work together we could French kiss,'" she recalls. "I thought he was kidding and leaned on in (Sheryl Sandberg would be so proud) but he was dead serious. He had been given a stern mandate to 'never date the actresses.' And while those are wise words for everyone to live by, I was crushed. Where was this 'casting couch' I had been so stringently warned about?! But he was not having it. Which made me like and respect him even more.
"Maddeningly enough, I had to wait for David to be ready," she continued. "I'll never forget the romantic night over dinner with coworkers at Benihana when David turned to me and said he was finally ready to give it a try. At this point we had over a year of friendship under our belts and the mutual respect that comes from working together on our sides. We started dating and a year-and-a-half later, we were engaged."
The happy couple tied the knot in late May in an intimate ceremony in Ojai, Calif., and they've also teamed up for the new NBC sitcom Marry Me (Caspe is the writer of the show and his wife, who served as the inspiration, stars in the series).
"Sleeping with your boss or coworker is a huge risk," she admits. "It's one of those things that's always wrong unless it turns out right. It was a roll of the dice, but so is love. And if you think you have a chance at real love, I say roll 'em.
"So, yes. I slept with my boss," she concludes, "But I also married him. So that makes me his boss. Destiny fulfilled."
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