Kim Fields knows a thing or two about the facts of life.
The actress, director and producer, mostly known for portraying precocious young teen Tootie on the popular 1980’s sitcom “The Facts of Life,” had some grown-up drama during a role on another popular sitcom in the 1990s.
In a new interview with The Chicago Tribune, the former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast member dished the dirt about her wardrobe malfunction as a guest start on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” in 1993.
In that episode, from 1993, she and Will Smith’s character get married — but it’s really all a ruse just to get her character into bed. Fields picks up the story from there.
“I had to do a quick-change off camera from a bride’s skirt-and-jacket suit into my honeymoon attire,” she recalled. “So I was going into the little fake bathroom on the set to do the quick change while Will was doing his quick-change on camera, where he’s ripping off his clothes and throwing shoes and just going a million miles an hour to get ready for what supposed be our honeymoon night. And he kept getting faster and faster with the wardrobe change.”
“So Will and I are doing our dialogue right before I leave to do this quick-change. And all of a sudden I feel this draft around my legs and I’m like, ‘Why is it so cold all of a sudden?’
“And I looked down and my skirt had fallen completely around my ankles,” she continued. “It was gone. There was no moment of I feel it slipping and I can catch it. Oh no. It was gone. Around my ankles. And thank God I’m so short that the blazer that I was wearing covered my, uh, my treasure.”
Smith was ever the gentleman, she added.
“And Will, bless his heart, after he laughed and I looked down and I screamed and squealed, he was such a wonderful gentleman that he put his hands up and walked towards the camera to cover the lens, like don’t-look-at-her kind of thing as I went racing out,” she revealed.
“That was definitely my most embarrassing moment.”
What was the most valuable lesson from that most embarrassing moment?
“What did I learn? Button up your damn clothes!”
