As she opened the front door, she instantly recognised the swaggering figure before her with his tousled hair and 'rock star grin'. 'You're cute,' said legendary Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger – to which she cheekily replied: 'You're cuter.' It was the moment the 33-year-old rock idol met 15-year-old budding actress Rae Dawn Chong, who last night sensationally revealed she and Sir Mick had a two-day fling in 1977 while he was still married to first wife Bianca. Rae Dawn, best-known for her role in the 1985 action film Commando, met the womanising rocker during a trip to New York. After their brief introduction, he whisked her to a recording studio before the pair spent the night together.
In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday last night, Rae Dawn, now a thrice-divorced, 58-year-old grandmother, said: 'He never asked me how old I was and I never told him. It never came up. I remember thinking he was really cute. He had tousled hair. I thought, 'Oh man, he is beautiful.' 'He said, 'What are you doing right now?' I said, 'Nothing really.' 'He grabbed my hand and we jumped in his limo and went straight to a recording studio. The Stones were there, I was in the background. I remember being in there for hours and hours. 'Then I slept over at his apartment. I knew what I was doing. I was experimenting with Mick. I was having fun.'
Rae Dawn, who says Jagger did not know her age, recalls waking to find Jagger's bandmate Keith Richards staring at the pair...
...Sitting down with The Mail on Sunday last night in a hotel overlooking the bright light's of LA's infamous Sunset Strip, the B-list actress insisted Jagger should not be vilified because their fling took place 'in a different era' to today's #MeToo culture.
She says she is only speaking out to 'own' the story after accidentally blurting out during a podcast that she had sex with Jagger when she was two years under the age of consent. The podcast is due to air today. Speaking on tape to showbiz 'bible' The Hollywood Reporter, she was asked how she landed the Commando role: 'I got it because I'd been in a Jagger video and then they asked me how I knew Mick and before I knew it I'd blurted out that I'd had sex with him when I was 15. It just slipped out. 'I feel incredibly bad about it. It's me and my big mouth. My family and friends knew about it but it's not something I have ever dined out on.'
Last night, Sir Mick declined to comment...
...She says that her own family will be 'disgusted' by her decision to go public and believes Jagger himself will be angry and devastated: 'He's probably going to lose his **** because I was a minor. He's going to be so mad at me.'...
...'Mick was very beautiful, very shy, very self-absorbed,' she recalls. 'He had great lips, he was a great kisser. He wasn't that much older than me in my brain. He was 33 and young and gorgeous with a nice body. It wasn't a bad thing, it was fabulous. Totally rock 'n' roll. He didn't make me do anything I didn't want to do, but he was very vain, always looking in the mirror.'
The age of consent at the time was 17, but Sir Mick cannot face criminal charges as the statute of limitations for reporting second-degree rape is 20 years – not that Rae Dawn would ever want him to be prosecuted...
...'He did nothing wrong. He didn't make me do anything I didn't want to do,' she said. 'It was the 1970s, a different era. I wasn't a victim.
'I don't want him to get into trouble about this. It wasn't traumatising. I knew what I was doing. I wasn't an innocent schoolgirl. I always acted a lot older than I was. I was a grown-up at 15. At 15, I was definitely a Lolita,' she said. 'I knew I had the power to pick and chose whatever man I wanted. I was keen to have every experience I could. Mick was part of that.'...
