Amy Adams has recalled a dramatic real-life emergency where she helped keep a stabbing victim alive on the streets of Santa Monica, and the story has an unexpectedly emotional ending.
The actress, 51, shared the account on Monday’s episode Smartless podcast, telling hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes that she and her family left their favorite restaurant when they first found themselves on the scene of a serious attack.
“These people were screaming and a guy was walking and they were yelling, ‘He’s dying!’ And my husband says, ‘It’s blood!'” Adams recalled.
She immediately took charge and told her husband Darren Le Gallo to stay with their daughter Aviana while she and her father Richard ran over to help.
The man had been stabbed in the neck.
Fortunately, the family had towels with them when they were on their way to the beach.
Her father, who she noted had “been in a lot of scenes,” applied pressure to the wound while Adams focused on keeping the victim calm.
“You need to calm your pulse. Take a deep breath,” she told him. “The more you fight, the faster you’ll bleed. Just lie down. Let’s lift this.”
In a remarkable twist, Adams ran into the same man about a year later while dining out.
A stranger approached her and said he had heard a story about her being 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 “crying” and had his son with him.
When pressed about what had led to the stabbing, Adams said that as best she could gather, the man had been out with an old college friend, they had stopped at a liquor store on their way back to someone’s house, and things had inexplicably turned violent.
“He just freaked out,” she said, admitting she never got the whole story.
