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"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church"

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"I was green" is the kind of blunt self-diagnosis that feels almost too neat for a culture that loves complicated villains. Jessica Hahn isn’t claiming innocence as a halo; she’s describing inexperience as a handicap. The sentence lands because it’s conversational, almost shrug-like, and that casualness is the point: it frames what followed not as a moral melodrama but as a mismatch of power, knowledge, and control.

The follow-up - "All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church" - works as a deliberately narrow portrait of a life. Dog-walking signals routine, small responsibilities, a world scaled to the neighborhood. Church signals a moral framework and a community, but also, subtly, a certain deference: you’re taught to trust institutions, to assume adults are there to guide you. Put together, they sketch someone whose social training is obedience and normalcy, not media warfare or high-stakes negotiation.

Hahn’s name carries late-80s tabloid heat and televangelist scandal, a moment when American morality became a televised product and the punishment for sexual transgression tended to fall hardest on women. This quote reads like a strategic reclaiming of narrative: she positions herself not as a temptress or a punchline, but as someone underprepared for a system that would first exploit her and then endlessly recycle her story for entertainment. The subtext is less "forgive me" than "understand the setup."

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hahn, Jessica. (2026, January 16). I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-green-all-i-knew-was-to-walk-my-dog-and-go-102592/

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Hahn, Jessica. "I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-green-all-i-knew-was-to-walk-my-dog-and-go-102592/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-green-all-i-knew-was-to-walk-my-dog-and-go-102592/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Jessica Hahn (born July 7, 1959) is a Celebrity from USA.

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