Gabe Saporta, Evan Lysacek, Kim Caldwell Dish In ‘When I Was 17’

Lysacek’s secret identity, Caldwell’s bloody prom and Saporta’s badass past get revealed on the show, airing Saturdays at 11 a.m. By MTV News staff Gabe Saporta Photo: MTV News We all have huge memories — both wonderful and horrible &#8212 of being 17. MTV’s “When I Was 17” features celebrities sharing moments that all of us can identify with (well, most of them anyway), and this week, Olympic medalist and “Dancing With the Stars” luminary Evan Lysacek , “American Idol” contestant Kimberly Caldwell and Cobra Starship’s Gabe Saporta delivered in fine fashion. Although Lysacek is a household name, back in the day, his friends didn’t even realize he was training for Olympic glory. “For a long time, a lot of my friends didn’t even know I was a skater, and the ones that did know didn’t really understand the magnitude of it — that I was traveling all around the world to compete,” he says on the show. Then there was one fateful day when his school principal decided to expose his secret to the entire student body. “My junior year was the first time that I competed in a competition that was televised,” Evan recalls. “My principal broadcast my skating competition for the whole school. I didn’t know ahead of time, so I kind of was surprised.” Kimberly Caldwell has turned heads on “American Idol” and the TV Guide Channel, and things were pretty much the same when she was 17 … only, back then, she was turning heads for an entirely different reason: She was the girl positively covered in blood. “When I was 17, I got asked out by one of the really hot senior boys to prom and I was, like, so excited,” Caldwell recalls. “And so I’m with all these seniors, and we go to this really beautiful restaurant, and we’re walking, and I had gotten this really, really pretty dress, and all my friends, like, came over and helped me get ready and everything. “I was so excited, and of course I had put on my ‘I’m so cool, this is not too exciting’ face. So we went to this restaurant, and before we even ate dinner, I tripped and I fell,” she continued. “My dress got split all the way up to my belly button, and my knee got a gash and it started gushing blood. It was a really, really sexy moment for me.” This might not exactly come as a surprise, but when he was 17, Cobra Starship frontman Gabe Saporta was a bit of a hell-raiser. Seems that the manic mastermind behind hits like “Good Girls Gone Bad” was never far away from trouble as a teen, much to the chagrin of pretty much every authority figure around him — particularly on one fateful class trip. “We went on a class trip to Washington, D.C., to learn about the history of our government … and everyone had a hotel room, two people per room, two boys, two girls in each room,” Saporta smiled. “But really, class trips are just make-out sessions, so I went and snuck into one of these girls’ rooms … only this girl that I was making out with, her roommate who she was paired up with came back and freaked out and, like, had a panic attack.” The spooked roommate grabbed a chaperone, and before he knew it, Saporta was busted. But he still thinks the stunt was worth it. “I got in trouble the next day, and I got sent home from the Washington trip,” he said. “I got kicked off the trip, I got to make out with a girl, and everyone’s like, ‘Wow, you were making out with a girl and you got kicked off the trip! That rules!’ ” Don’t miss “When I Was 17,” airing Saturdays at 11 a.m. ET on MTV! Related Videos When I Was 17 | Ep. 6 | Evan Lysacek, Kimberly Caldwell, Gabe Saporta Related Photos When I Was 17 | Gabe Saporta When I Was 17 | Kimberly Caldwell When I Was 17 | Evan Lysacek

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Gabe Saporta, Evan Lysacek, Kim Caldwell Dish In ‘When I Was 17’