6 Movie Roles That Got People Fired

6. A Teacher Lost Her Job For An Erotic Drama 40 YEARS Earlier - The Secret Diary Of A Nymphomaniac

We begin with what might be the most blatantly ridiculous and unfair of all the firings on this list.

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Back in 2014, 73-year-old drama teacher Jacqueline Laurent-Auger was fired from her post at an elite Montreal school after students discovered she'd starred in a number of erotic dramas in the 1970s.

Most notably, Laurent-Auger appeared nude in 1973's sexy thriller Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac, and once word spread about her prior career, her bosses made the decision to fire her.

Laurent-Auger was incensed, naturally, that an acting role she'd accepted four decades earlier - which, again, was an actual dramatic film, not porn - was impacting her current work prospects. She said:

"I did it as a young actress to make a little money... The idea of throwing someone out the door for something they did almost 50 years ago is idiotic. It makes me angry."

Despite public outrage, the college held firm that the revelation made her position at the institution untenable, because the knowledge of her films affected the "atmosphere" of her classrooms. Awful.

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