Amy Adams recalls a dramatic, real-life emergency in which she helped keep a stabbing victim alive on the streets of Santa Monica, and the story has a surprisingly emotional ending.
The 51-year-old actress shared this story on Monday’s episode of Without intelligence podcast, telling hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes that she and her family were leaving their favorite restaurant when they first found themselves at the scene of a serious attack.
“These people were screaming and a guy was walking and they were screaming, ‘He’s dying!’ And my husband said, ‘It’s blood!'” Adams recalled.
She immediately took matters into her own hands, telling her husband Darren Le Gallo to stay with their daughter Aviana while she and her father Richard ran to help.
The man had been stabbed in the neck.
Luckily, the family had towels with them as they headed to the beach.
Her father, who she said had “witnessed many scenes”, applied pressure to the wound while Adams focused on calming the victim.
“You need to calm your pulse. Take a deep breath,” she told him. “The more you struggle, the sooner you’ll bleed. Just lay down. Let’s bring this up.”
In a remarkable twist, Adams met the same man about a year later while dining out.
A stranger approached her and told her he had heard a story that she was at the scene of a stabbing.
“And I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s you. And it was him.'” She described the reunion as “crazy,” adding that he was “all in tears” and had his son with him.
When asked what led to the assault, Adams said that, as best she could, the man had been out with an old college friend, they had stopped at a liquor store on the way back to someone’s house, and things had inexplicably turned violent.
“He just freaked out,” she said, acknowledging she never got the whole story.
