Viral tweet reminds people that Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17-year-old when he was 3

A tweet that has been viewed over 18million times has reminded everyone of a relationship Jerry Seinfeld had with a teenager when he was 38.

The actor and comedian, now 69, is best known for playing a fictional version of himself in the American sitcom Seinfeld between 1989 and 1998, which he created and wrote with Larry David.

Back in the early 1990s, the TV star once dated a 17-year-old, it was later revealed, with a former classmate of hers now bringing attention to the matter once more.

They responded to a tweet reading: ‘Which celebrity interaction was “the incident” at your high school?’

Their quote tweet said: ‘When I was in high school 38 year old Jerry Seinfeld was dating a girl in my year and he picked her up from class during 4th period and she got to skip Mr Solinski’s calculus exam (I got a 93/100)’.

Alongside the tweet was a black and white photo of Seinfeld and the girl in question, taken from a magazine.

A quote from Seinfeld next to the image read: ‘I don’t think about the age issue, she doesn’t, my friends don’t.’

In the replies, Twitter users were stunned.

‘It’s really wild how prevalent these kinds of relationships were until SO recently! I can’t even remember all the many, many 30+ yo celebrities who were in relationships with teenage girls’, one person wrote.

‘I remember when this happened & don’t think for a second that a lot of women weren’t grossed out by this. I never looked at Seinfeld the same after this’, another said.

‘Amazing how Jerry Seinfeld was able to get away with dating a teenager in the 90s’, one person wrote.

The girl Seinfeld dated was named Shoshanna Lonstein.

Initially, they claimed they were just friends before it later surfaced that they were romantically involved.

Seinfeld replied: ‘She’s not 17, definitely not.’

However, in a later appearance on Stern’s show, he appeared to contradict what he said the last time.

‘I didn’t realise she was so young,’ he said. ‘This is the only girl I ever went out with who was that young. I wasn’t dating her. We just went to a restaurant, and that was it.’

Fast forward a few years and Seinfeld once again defended his romane with Lonstein.

He said he is ‘not an idiot’ and described Lonstein as ‘a person, not an age.’

‘She is extremely bright. She’s funny, sharp, very alert,’ he said. ‘We just get along. You can hear the click.’

He also told Playboy that when he ‘likes someone’ he ‘doesn’t care’ about her ‘race, creed, or national origin’ as he doesn’t ‘discriminate’.

‘If she’s 18, if she’s intelligent, that’s fine,’ he declared.

Following their separation, Seinfeld said he and Lonstein were ‘very much in love.’

But he said the ‘timing wasn’t right.’

‘I almost got married to Shoshanna,’ he said.

Lonstein had enrolled at college at the time.

As for Seinfeld, he is now married to Jessica Seinfeld, 52, and has been since 1999.

He met the author at a sports club in 1998 before she married her first husband Eric Nederlander that June.

She and Nederlander divorced in October 1998 after four months of marriage, with Seinfeld proposing to her in November the following year.

They married on Christmas Day 1999 with comedian George Wallace as best man.

Speaking about her relationship with Seinfeld, Jessica previously said: ‘I met Jerry at the end of what was the most difficult period of my life.

‘I had just made a painful decision to dissolve a five-year relationship that began when I was 21 and culminated in a brief marriage.

‘Jerry was neither the cause nor the effect of the break-up, but his friendship gave me strength and resilience at a time of desperate need, and it has formed the basis for my happiness in the years that have followed.’

The long-time couple are now parents to three children: Sascha, 22, Julian Kal, 20, and Shepherd Kellen, 17.

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