Amy Adams has recalled a dramatic real-life emergency in which 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 of the show. 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 man was walking and they were screaming, ‘He’s dying!’ And my husband said, ‘That’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 to help.
The man had been stabbed in the neck.
Luckily, the family carried towels as they headed to the beach.
His father, who he noted had “been in a lot of scenes,” applied pressure to the wound while Adams concentrated on keeping the victim calm.
“You need to calm your pulse. Breathe deeply,” he told her. “The more you fight, the faster you’ll bleed. Just lie down. Let’s elevate this.”
In a remarkable twist, Adams ran into the same man about a year later while dining out.
A stranger approached her and told her that he had heard a story about her being at the scene of a stabbing.
“And I said, ‘Oh my God, it’s you. And it was him.'” She described the meeting as “crazy,” adding that he was “all teary-eyed” and had his son with him.
When asked what led up to the stabbing, Adams said that, as best he could piece it together, 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 got scared,” he said, acknowledging that he never knew the full story.
