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During a June 2 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jean Smart recalled a fashion faux pas that she made while meeting with her son’s college counselor
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She said that she wore a pair of pants, which she later realized featured embroidered images of “a naked woman” and a “bong”
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Smart shares two sons with her late husband Richard Gilliland — Connor, 35, and Forrest, 16
Jean Smart accidentally made a funny fashion statement when she met with her son’s college counselor.
During a Monday, June 2, appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the 73-year-old Hacks star opened up about making a bit of a faux pas when she got dressed for the meeting, which all centered around her pants.
“I bought this pair of white pants the other day, and they had kind of this green, kind of embroidered vine or something. I thought they were kind of pretty and really comfy,” she told Stephen Colbert.
Her story continued: “I wore them to my son’s school to meet the college counselor and later, I really looked at them, and I went, ‘Oh. That’s a marijuana plant with a naked woman on one leg. And on the other thigh was a bong.’ “
“I can’t imagine what he thought,” Smart admitted with a laugh, with Colbert replying that he probably thought she was a “cool mom.”
Although she didn’t specify, it seems likely that she was referring to her younger son Forrest, who she adopted with late husband Richard Gilliland in May 2009. Smart and Richard are also parents to Connor, who was born in 1989.
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Jean Smart with her kids Forrest Kathleen Gilliland and Connor Douglas Gilliland
Richard died at the age of 71 in March 2021, and Smart has been parenting her sons on her own since. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2022, she described her experience as “the hardest thing [she’s] ever done.”
However, she has always been quick to praise her sons, telling PEOPLE that “they take very good care of [her]” in September 2023.
“My oldest son lives with us right now. He’s been helping me a lot since we lost his dad, and so it’s been very nice to have him around,” she said. “I don’t know how single working mothers do it. I really truly don’t!”
Speaking to Glamour in 2024, she also recalled adopted Forrest, saying that she and her husband “were just so besotted” the moment that they got to hold him.
“My youngest is just an amazing person,” she gushed.
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Jean Smart and Forrest Gilliland on May 9, 2022 in Los Angeles
Forrest is also one of his mom’s biggest fans. At the 2022 Critics Choice Awards, he stressed how much Smart deserved to take home awards.
“She’s working like 13, 16 hours a day, every Monday through Friday,” he said about his mom. “The one time she got a day off since December, she decided to spend it with me.”
He continued, saying, “She works really hard for, like, everything. So I think it’s good. I’m glad she’s nominated because I like these award shows.”
That year, she took home the award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Hacks.
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