Former Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove says she still doesn't 'feel safe' 8 years after stalker set himself on fire on her front yard

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Former Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove shared her chilling experience with a stalker that terrifies her even eight years later.

Cosgrove recently sat for an interview with Bustle where she reflected on the incident where a stalker fatally shot himself and lit himself on fire in the front yard of her Los Angeles home.

Miranda Cosgrove reflects on stalker's suicide

In 2016, a man died by suicide in the front yard of Cosgrove's Los Angeles home. Before killing himself, the man even shot at a woman who was driving a car similar to Cosgrove's.

Recalling the incident, the former teen star shared she still doesn’t feel comfortable staying at that house, per Fox News.

Cosgrove shared, "That’s another reason why I go back and forth to my parents’ house so much," before admitting, "I just don’t feel super safe in that house."

She revealed, "For two years after it happened, I wouldn’t really stay there. Then I got into a relationship and because that person was there with me, I was less scared. But I don’t really like being there on my own that much."

The 30-year-old star noted that years later, she met the woman who was shot at while attending an event for Kitten Rescue LA.

Cosgrove continued, "This girl came up to me, and she was like, ‘I didn’t know if I should tell you this here or how to say this, but I’m actually the girl that was at your house that got shot at.'"

"She seemed like she processes things in a similar way that I do,” Cosgrove noted, before claiming she “didn’t think about it very much.”

She even claimed that she enjoys watching Richard Gadd's hit Netflix show ‘Baby Reindeer’, based on his own experience with a stalker.

Praising Gadd’s achievement, the ‘Drake & Josh’ alum added, "I feel like if that were me, having to go back through your most terrible experiences and then try to act them [out], that’d be so hard.”

She added that after her 30th birthday, her "huge goal" was "to find a place that I feel really safe, to kind of start a new chapter."

She is, however, still searching for it.

Miranda Cosgrove's earlier comments about incident

Back in 2020, the ‘The Mother of the Bride’ star opened up about her experience during an appearance on Whitney Cumming's ‘Good For You Podcast’.

She revealed that fortunately, she was not at home when she got a call from the police informing her about the incident, per Capital UK.

She shared, "I got a call at 3 in the morning that somebody had like, died at my house," before adding, "It was the weirdest thing ever because they had caution tape up and, you know, it was right in my front yard."

Cosgrove continued, "A guy came and he was like burying things in my backyard for like, three days and he buried a lunchbox with a milk chocolate inside of it, in my backyard," and revealed, "And then he buries like knives and a rope, and a bunch of random stuff."

"I guess he’d been in my backyard, hanging out there and burying things – why I didn’t notice, I don’t know. I’m just apparently not very observant,” admitted the star.

She shared that she later learned about the man who had been pacing around her backyard with a gun in his hands. "I have security cameras, so later when we looked, we figured out he was back there for like six hours or something, like, waiting," Cosgrove revealed.

She also said that the man shot the other woman six times. Thankfully, the person was unharmed after driving away.

Cosgrove shared that the man ultimately ended up setting himself on fire before fatally shooting himself.