Hollywood actress Amy Adams saved the life of a man who had been stabbed by administering first aid skills she learnt during a brief stint in a medical TV show.
Amy Adams saved the life of a stabbing victim using first aid skills she learnt during a brief stint in a medical TV show.
The Cape Fear actress has revealed she had just finished having dinner with her husband Darren Le Gallo, their 15-year-old daughter Aviana and her father Richard at a restaurant in Santa Monica, California when they saw a commotion on the street outside and Amy ran over to help a man who was lying on the ground bleeding.
During an appearance on the SmartLess podcast, Amy explained: “We were in Santa Monica, coming out of our favorite restaurant … These people were screaming and a guy was walking and they were yelling: ‘He’s dying!’
“And my husband’s like: ‘That’s blood!’ I was like: ‘Darren, you stay here with our daughter.’ [My dad and I] ran over and he’d been stabbed in the neck. So he was bleeding and his friends were freaking out”.
Amy and her father happened to be carrying beach towels with them so they used them to help slow the bleeding.
She said: “I’m sitting there somehow going: ‘You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in.’ Like, I literally was just so focused. I was like: ‘The more you struggle, the faster you’re going to bleed. Just lay down. Let’s elevate this’.”
The actress went on to credit her stint in 2004 medical TV series Dr. Vegas with giving her some basic knowledge of first aid.
Amy revealed the stabbing victim survived and she ran into him in a restaurant around a year later.
She said: “A guy walks up to me in a restaurant. He’s like: ‘I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed.’ And I was like: ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s so funny you heard that story’ … I was like: ‘Oh my God, it’s you!’ And it was him. And he was all teary and he had his son with him. It was so crazy.”
When asked about the details surrounding the stabbing, Amy admitted she still had no idea what really took place.
She said: “I mean, as far as I could make out, they had run into an old college friend and had some drinks and went to the liquor store. They were going to go back to someone’s house and he just freaked out. But I don’t know kind of what the whole story is.”
Amy Adams saves stabbing victim’s life
