In Good Company

Famous Folks Who Wet the Bed

By Crystal Patriarche

Bedwetting can be a frustrating and embarrassing topic of conversation for parents and for children, but you should always remember that you are not alone. There are many children who wet the bed, many adults who are dealing with same issues of changing sheets and helping their child, and there are even some celebrities who have talked about their own troubles wetting the bed when they were growing up.

One of the most outspoken celebrities about bedwetting, the late Michael Landon, who starred in hit shows like Little House on the Prairie and Bonanza, wrote about his childhood and how he wet the bed until he was 14 years old in his autobiography.

Sadly, Landon wrote that his mother would display his unwashed wet sheets on the clothesline for the whole neighborhood to see. Before he went to school, she humiliated him by tying parts of the sheets to him. These actions were all a cruel attempt to get him to stop wetting the bed. After Landon grew up and graduated from high school, he left home and had little contact with his mother.

Landon directed a movie in 1976 titled The Loneliest Runner about a 13-year-old boy named Lance who was similar to Landon as a child and also wet the bed. In the movie, Lance's mother would hang his sheets out the bedroom window to try to embarrass him and get him to stop. The boy was a runner and would run home to get the sheets out of the window before his girlfriend or friends would see.

In June of 2000, actor Vince Vaughn, who is best known for his roles in Old School and Swingers and who also starred in The Lost World

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