Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…

Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” is now serving six months of unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car. She was sentenced Feb. 29 to serve five days in jail, also fined $410.50 and placed on probation after pleading guilty to a count of reckless driving.

Her lawyer said that a friend of hers testified that he’d left some marijuana in the vehicle after using it that day, and Wells was unaware of it.

Several witnesses apparently were prepared to testify that Wells had very little to drink at the party and was not intoxicated when she left. According to the lawyer, she was swerving on the road because she was trying to find the heater controls in her new car.

Whatever the real story, this is a sad developement. At 69 years old, they should cut her some slack.

I mean, we owe her. You wouldn’t know it to look at her now, but how many young guys have rubbed one out to Mary Ann or Ginger, while the Skipper and his little buddy explored they gayness on screen?

Just sad.

[AOL]