Mother Theresa, step aside. If anyone should be nominated for sainthood, it’s Elizabeth Harmon, the woman who managed to raise son THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL's Winsor Harmon (Thorne) without pulling all her hair out. Naturally, boys will be boys, but the actor admits he was more than a handful back in Rockwall, TX, the town where he grew up. "I did a lot of stuff I shouldn’t have done," he says. "I used to streak. There were a lot of things."
For starters, Harmon had an escapade similar to the nail-biting scene in the film Stand By Me when the young boys venture onto a train trestle and narrowly escape being mowed down by a speeding locomotive. "Yeah, I once walked barefoot across a train trestle about 200 feet off the ground," he recalls. "My mother wasn’t too thrilled with that."
Let’s also not forget the time a 13-year-old Harmon took a borrowed car for a joy ride and wrecked it. "I lost control and ran over a tree," he says. "No one was hurt, but I had to work to pay for a new bumper. I got in a lot of trouble."
As for playing nicely with other children, Harmon tried to oblige but didn’t always succeed. "I had a bad temper, but I only used it when I needed to scare someone so that I could get out of a fistfight," he says. "So people would think, ‘Well, he’s a little psychotic! I won’t mess with him.’ I think in high school I was voted Most Likely To Go Postal!"
Although he’s matured nicely since the days of his youth, there’s still a bit of the old rascal in Harmon, whose antics around the B&B set often make for a devilish good time. "Winsor’s insane," notes co-star Maeve Quinlan (Megan). "He’s total entertainment."
Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke) couldn’t agree more. "He’s like a big kid," she says.
These days, you probably don’t have to worry about leaving the actor alone with a pack of matches. But don’t expect him to act too grown up — that would be just plain boring. "My philosophy on life is to look at everything through the eyes of a child," he says. "I don’t take things too seriously. I’m just out there to have fun and enjoy every single day."