Marianne Williamson was roommates with a then-teenage 'Big Little Lies' star Laura Dern

The "six degrees of separation" theory is getting weirder.

Marianne Williamson shared the stage this week with a collection of famous political faces, but she also has an unexpected Hollywood connection: The Democratic presidential hopeful was once roommates with a then-teenage Laura Dern.

A Twitter user named Corbin was one of the first to uncover the unlikely connection, citing a May 2019 New York Times profile of the Oscar nominee. Dern was 17 when she "moved into her own apartment, where her roommate was Marianne Williamson, the spiritual teacher and self-help writer (and current long-shot candidate for United States president), who started Project Angel Food, to feed people with HIV/AIDS out of their living room."

Dern is quite a few years younger than Williamson — she is 52; Williamson is 66 — and it's unclear how long they lived together. An early high school graduate, Dern enrolled at UCLA, but she quit school after just two days to accept her breakthrough role in 1986's "Blue Velvet."

While other parents would be alarmed by a two-day stint in college, Dern's were probably more understanding of her dropout decision since Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd are acclaimed actors themselves.

Did Dern and Williamson keep in touch after cohabitating? Hard to say, but Dern almost certainly didn't watch her former roommate's performance during the Thursday debate, since she's currently vacationing in Capri. The "Big Little Lies" actress is enjoying an Italian getaway with Katie Holmes and more fashionable women to celebrate the opening of a new Zimmerman store.