William Shatner may have played the highly-decorated Captain Kirk in the Star Trek franchise – but his real life wasn’t always quite so honourable.
The Canadian actor lifted the lid of his sex escapades in his memoir ‘Live Long and… What I Learned Along the Way’.
While the star shares heart-warming stories about his 70-year-long showbiz career, his life has been far from squeaky clean.
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The 92-year-old opened up about his encounters with prostitutes whom he won over with $2 dinners.
While he’s now living up the single life as he nears the century mark, Shatner has been married four times.
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But living in Toronto in his bachelor days before he found fame, William said he befriended the sex workers.
He explained: “That bar became a hangout for prostitutes whose clients would ‘rent a room’ in the hotel.
“I would eat my two-dollar dinner, then go into the bar and sit with these women.”
When the sex workers went to see their clients, however, William was left eating on his own.
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The women did at least have a special way of making it up to the lonely Captain.
They let him boldly go where some men had gone before.
The Star Trek alum revealed: “One or two of them allowed me into their bed from time to time.”
The actor didn’t confirm what activities took place with his prostitute pals.
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Branded “the one, the only captain”, William played the original James T. Kirk from 1966 to 1969 and solidified his status as the “true captain” as if placed in fans’ minds by Vulcan mind meld.
But prior to his esteemed role, William had what he described as of his biggest regrets when he was engaged to his first wife, Gloria Rand.
He ran into one of his old prostitute friends while he was with Gloria and her parents but ignored her as if she was a Klingon.
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Admitting he’s filled with “shame” that he didn’t stop and say hello, he said: “The last thing I wanted was for Gloria’s parents to discover I knew this woman.
“She was a prostitute; what would they think of me?”
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