Matt Bomer recaps his incredibly wild year as a young actor on the daytime soap ‘Guiding Light’

The time Matt Bomer spent playing Ben Reade on the daytime soap Guiding Light was a wild one and he remembers every detail.

‘It was the most insane circumstances on a daily basis,’ Bomer tells Out Magazine of his 2002-03 gig.

‘I told the writers, “Give me the craziest shit you’ve ever given anybody.” And they obliged.

‘I’ll tell you what happened to my character in the course of a year and a half: I was a trust fund baby who bet my fraternity brothers that I could be the first to deflower the town virgin. The only virgin in town. She was kind of the grande dame’s daughter, so a very precious character to those who followed the show. I’d get yelled at by airport staff: “Don’t do Mara wrong!” Of course, I ended up falling in love with her. And then she found out about it — and dumped me.’

But he never did deflower her: ‘We would always come very close and then someone would interrupt right at the moment.’

That was only the beginning.

‘So I found a new girl, lost my trust fund, and I was scared she wouldn’t love me anymore, so I did the only thing any logical, sensible person does when they lose their trust fund — I turned to male prostitution. You only ever saw me with one client, who was like a really lovely, gorgeous woman in her 40s.’

Then the new girl broke up with him and the character went off the rails.

‘I went crazy, killed four or five people, abducted her to a remote cabin in the woods, and confessed that I had been molested by my female schoolteacher as a child.

‘So I confessed to her and then committed suicide in front of her father and her new boyfriend by injecting myself with a syringe of insulin. And then, classically, hung on an extra day in the hospital to confess all my sins and apologize.

‘But my favorite part of that entire experience was the writers coming up to me as I’m getting wheeled off the set in my hospital gown and saying, “Listen, if you ever want to come back, we’ve got it all figured out.” And I always wanted to know, what was it going to be?’