Christina Applegate was once married to a woman

'Samantha Who?' star Christina Applegate made waves earlier in the week when a story came out that she was seen kissing her ex husband at a club. Christina and her ex, actor Johnathon Schaech, were divorced last year after five years of marriage and when they ran into each other they 'just started making out':

Applegate, 35, and Schaech, 38, ran into each other unexpectedly at L.A. hot spot Les Deux on Friday night - and ended up having a close encounter.

'They just made out all of a sudden,' an observer tells PEOPLE. 'They didn't really look around to see who was looking, it just happened, but it wasn't that weird after. They just went along talking to friends and separated soon after and both kept partying.'

The flirty former couple were also seen holding hands, but they each ended the evening with their pals. Applegate, who stars in the new comedy series Samantha Who?, was hanging out with her girlfriends Eva Longoria and Sara Ramirez, while Schaech was with his actor friend Clifton Collins Jr.

[From People.com]

That's not that shocking and comes off like a sitcom plot rather than something that would actually happen, but good for them. What's slightly scandalous is the news that Applegate admitted that she was married to a woman before she made it legal with her ex husband in 2001. She said in an old interview with Bikini Magazine that over ten years ago she and her female friend got hitched in Vegas. She claimed that they 'took [marriage] very seriously,' but that they did it to prove a point about marriage and that it wasn't sexual. It couldn't have been legal, because gay marriage and same sex unions are not legal in Nevada, but it sounds like they had a ceremony:

The Anchorman star has been exposed as a former lesbian thanks to a forgotten interview in little know Bikini magazine, where she talks openly about her same-sex romance a decade ago, before she wed now ex-husband Johnathon Schaech.

Applegate told the magazine she ‘wed' a girlfriend in Las Vegas to 'prove a point about the whole marriage thing, and how the bond between two women surpasses the bond between two men.'

She added, 'We got married at a club one Vegas night, and we took it very seriously - rings, rice, the whole bit.'

But she insisted there was no sexual relationship. She told Bikini magazine, 'We're not like that. We're like the two most heterosexual women who ever lived.'

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Did she tell this story because she was afraid it would get out and she wanted to tell it her way? It could have happened like she claims, but it all sounds pretty suspect. Lance Bass was married in Vegas in 1999 to get free drinks, and it's not out of the question for two people who are just friends to get drunk and stupid enough to get married. If they weren't more than friends they must have been obliterated enough to think that getting married was a good idea. Since it apparently wasn't legal, it's not like they had to get it annulled or anything. I wonder if was weird for them the next day and if their 'friendship' suffered as a result.

Christina Applegate is shown on 7/27/07 at the ABC All Star Party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Thanks to Splash News.