Amy Adams recalls shocking real-life rescue after coming across stabbing victim in Santa Monica
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Actress Amy Adams recently opened up on the Monday episode of the 'Smartless' podcast about a real-life stabbing incident in Santa Monica that saw her help save a critically injured man's life.
She recalled rushing to aid a man who had been stabbed in the neck, remaining intensely focused throughout the life-or-death emergency, and later reuniting with the survivor a year after the incident. This comes amid her upcoming projects, 'Cape Fear' and 'Klara and the Sun.'
Amy Adams recounts helping save stabbed man's life in Santa Monica
The conversation began after 'Smartless' cohost Sean Hayes shared his own experience of helping a man who had been shot following a taping of series 'Will & Grace.' In response, Adams explained how she reacts in moments of crisis.
The actress said, “I get very focused,” before adding, “Like, everything becomes very focused in an emergency.” Following that remark, cohost Will Arnett prompted her to recount the dramatic incident and share “that whole story about the time that you saved a dude’s life.”
“So I've come across a couple of scenes where we've been sort of the first people on the scene,” Adams recalled. She explained that the incident happened in Santa Monica while she was with her father, Richard Adams.
Recalling the moment, she said, “People were yelling, ‘He’s dying!’ and my husband [said,] ‘That’s blood!'” She remembered turning to her husband, Darren Le Gallo, and saying, “Darren, you stay here with our daughter,” while she and her father rushed to help.
“He’d been stabbed in the neck, so he was bleeding, and his friends were freaking out,” she said adding, “Luckily, we were going to the beach; we grabbed towels — my dad has been on lots of scenes [and] I guess he attracts them as well — and applied pressure.”
Amy Adams shares emotional reunion with stabbing survivor
Reflecting on the emergency, Adams laughed at how composed she managed to remain while helping the injured man. “I’m sitting there somehow going, ‘You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in,’” she recalled adding, “I literally was just so focused.”
She continued, “I was like, The more you struggle, the faster you're going to bleed. Just lay down. Let's elevate this.” The man survived the stabbing, and Adams later learned just how significant the encounter had been when she unexpectedly met him again a year later.
“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 adding, “I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, that's so funny you heard that story.’”
According to her, the man then gestured toward his neck, leading to a surprising realization. She remembered saying "Oh my god, it's you, and it was him, He was all teary, and he had his son with him. It was so crazy.”
The actress also recently discussed another nerve-racking experience during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, recalling her first meeting with filmmaker Martin Scorsese while working on the series adaptation of 'Cape Fear.'
“The expletives that went through my head, I was so nervous,” Adams continued, “I think I was sweating, and I'm sure I overacted, but I wanted them to know I was committed. It was terrifying, but wonderful that he invested that time. but I was really trying to be cool. I'm like, You got this!”
