Former “Happy Days” star Erin Moran shared a bizarre night of revelry on the lawn of a Midwestern motel with strangers, where she was “acting weird” and posed for pics on the hood of a classic car.
“We were just hanging outside at about 9 or 10 p.m.,” a guest at an Indiana motel told RadarOnline, “and she just happened to be coming out around the corner and stopped and talked to us.”
According to the source, Moran “tip-toed around the corner acting weird,” then joined the group of strangers by the motel’s parking lot “to pop open a cold one,” the report says.
“She was real goofy and silly acting,” the source told Radar. “She said was heading over to the bar for a tequila shot, but actually stayed with us instead and hung out for the next three or four hours outside in the grass.”
The source added that Moran, who once played Joanie Cunningham on the sitcom “Happy Days,” “almost seemed like she was just nuts. She was just kind of out there!”
Moran was reportedly recently kicked out of the trailer park home she shared with husband Steve Fleischmann. The National Enquirer has reported that Moran and her hubby have since been living between motels, and burning through the cash settlement Moran had been awarded by CBS over merchandise revenue from her former hit show.
“[Moran] seemed like she was a little off, it was hard to tell if it was just alcohol,” a source told Radar of the motel run-in. “She didn’t do any drugs or talk about them in front of us. She was definitely a little kooky and acted weird, saying odd things, and even offered to give me a back rub!”
The sources didn’t realize who they were hanging out with at first. “About a half hour into meeting her when we’d just been wondering ‘Who is this crazy woman?’ she asked if we knew who she was, and I said, ‘You look like…’ and she said ‘That’s who I am,’ before I could even get it out.”
Moran went on to regale her new friends with stories about her years on the ‘70s hit sitcom that co-starred Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.
“After hanging out with Erin until 2 a.m., the eyewitness went to bed and left the actress with one of her friends as they snapped silly photos… on his 1940 Chevy,” the report says, adding that Moran was then seen in the same spot at the motel the next morning, chatting to different people.