Amy Adams recently shared a harrowing experience where she aided a stabbing victim in Los Angeles.
During Monday’s episode of the “Smartless” podcast, Adams recounted the incident, which occurred as she, her father Richard Adams, husband Darren Le Gallo, and daughter Aviana left their favorite restaurant in Santa Monica. They were the first to arrive at the distressing scene amid what was meant to be a pleasant family outing.
“We heard people screaming, and saw a man staggering with onlookers shouting, ‘He’s dying!’” Adams recalled. Her husband quickly pointed out, “That’s blood!”
Concerned for their daughter, Adams instructed her husband to stay with her while she and her father rushed over to help, discovering that the man had suffered a stab wound to the neck.
She described the chaotic scene to hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes, explaining how the man was bleeding profusely while his friends were in a state of panic.
The “American Hustle” actress, 51, noted that “luckily” they were going to the beach and had towels with them.
She shared that her father “applied pressure” with the towels as he’d been “on lots of scenes.”
“And I’m sitting there somehow going, ‘You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in,” she shared, adding that in the moment, she was “focused.”
“I was like, ‘The more you struggle, the faster you’re going to bleed. Just lay down. Let’s elevate this,’” the “Enchanted” star said.
In a bizarre turn of events, the “Junebug” actress said she ran into the stabbing victim a year later while dining out.
“A guy walks up to me in the restaurant. He’s like, ‘I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed,’” she recalled.
She shared that she told him it was “so funny” he “heard that story.”
“And I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s you.’ And it was him.”
Calling the unexpected reunion “crazy,” Adams divulged that the man was “all teary” and that he “had his son with him” at the time.
When asked if he told her the circumstances surrounding his stabbing, Adams said that “as far as [she] could make out,” he’d been having drinks with an old college pal before hitting a liquor store.
“They were going back to someone’s house and he just freaked out,” she continued, while confessing that she didn’t “know kind of what the whole story” was.
Adams isn’t the only celebrity to have been involved in a scary situation — Hayes himself shared that he’d once helped a man who’d been shot by turning his own shirt into a tourniquet to stem the bleeding before accompanying him to the hospital.
“He lived and he was OK,” Hayes shared, noting that he’d been “topless” the entire time.
Following “The Wire” actor James Ransone’s death in December, a woman came forward to share that he’d once saved her from a sexual assault by frightening the attacker.
And in 2019, Danny Trejo rescued an infant trapped in an overturned car following an accident in Los Angeles.