Stars remember motorcycle crashes and botched piercings on latest episode.
By Mawuse Ziegbe
Nikki Blonsky
Photo: MTV News
Like many teens, celebrities can recall being disobedient when they were growing up. On the latest episode of "When I Was 17," two stars remember the disastrous consequences of their adolescent rebellion.
Before "Jersey Shore" castmember Angelina Pivarnick was stirring up drama in beach houses, she was flouting her mom's authority back on Staten Island. The reality TV star remembered getting a belly button piercing from a sketchy establishment that ultimately didn't sit well with her body.
"I got on the train to go back home, and my stomach was killing me, and I said to my friends, 'I don't know if I could deal with this,' " Angelina recalled. "Sure enough, my body rejected the body piercing."
Angelina wasn't playing either, as her body literally chucked the piercing out of her navel.
"So, I was in the bathroom, I was doing my makeup, and all of a sudden I heard something fall on the floor," she said. "So I look on the floor, and it's my belly-button ring with the ball attached on top of it. It ripped out of my skin."
Like Angelina, "America's Next Top Model" judge Nigel Barker's teenage foolishness got him into trouble. The photographer recalled crashing his brother's motorcycle after downing a brew with a pal.
"I remember going around to my friend's house and having lunch. I stupidly also had a beer. Don't drink and drive, folks, and here's the moral of the story," he advised.
The midday meal ended with a catastrophic crash, as Barker was too tipsy to even get the bike onto the road.
"I left my friend's [driveway], and literally as I went out the [driveway], I immediately hit the ground," he said, with a smack of his hand. "[I] skidded all over this gravel, ripped up my leg and one of the prongs of the actual wheel went straight through my foot."
Unlike her "When I Was 17" co-stars, "Hairspray" belter Nikki Blonsky pretty much behaved herself. But she did have some brushes with death as an ambitious young singer ready to croon at the drop off a hat — or a casket. The teen's willingness to sing at any town function quickly earned her a reputation as the girl who sang at funerals.
"This one funeral, the mic was just broken. So I just had to sing extra loud as they were, like, proceeding out with the coffin," Blonsky recalls. "I'm trying to belt out 'Ave Maria,' which is such a beautiful song, it's supposed to be so delicate, and I'm singing it like I'm in Giants Stadium so everybody in the back row can hear me."
"When I Was 17" airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. on MTV
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