Bacon found the spot after seeing “an ad on the back of the ‘Village Voice.'”

Spoiler alert: it wasnt exactly the bohemian heaven the listing proclaimed it to be.

It was basically a flophouse, really, he said through laughter.

Kevin Bacon attends the Red Carpet Day 3 during the 26th SCAD Savannah Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia.

Kevin Bacon.Dia Dipasupil/Getty

I guess there were some artists there, but not a lot.

With no other options, Bacon spontaneously agreed to become roommates with the man sitting next to him.

“He was like, ‘You want to live together?’

I was like, ‘Yeah, okay,'” he recalled.

“We lived together for four years.

In fact, I just had lunch with him the other day.”

You really got to want your dream.

Bacon added, You gotta have the hunger.

Watch Clarkson and Bacon share apartment stories in the clip above.

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