Amy Adams may have only briefly appeared in the 2004 medical TV series Dr. Vegas, but the experience proved useful when she came face-to-face with a stabbing victim.
The Hollywood actress, 51, revealed that she once helped to save a “dying” man’s life after he was “stabbed in the neck” in Santa Monica.
Amy had just left a restaurant with her father, Richard Adams, her husband, Darren Le Gallo, and their daughter, Aviana Le Gallo, when they came upon the horrific scene.
“We were in Santa Monica and coming out of our favorite restaurant. And these people were screaming, and a guy was walking, and they’re yelling, ‘He’s dying.’ And my husband’s like, ‘That’s blood,'” she explained on the June 22 episode of the SmartLess podcast.
Amy and her dad jumped into action after instructing her husband to stay with their daughter, using their beach towels to try to stem the bleeding.
“He was bleeding and his friends were freaking out,” she recalled. “And I’m sitting there somehow going, ‘You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in.’
“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.'”
Amy and her father successfully helped to save the man’s life, and by happenstance, they were reunited a year later.
© Getty Images“A guy walks up to me in the restaurant and he’s like, ‘I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed,'” she recounted.
“And I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s you.’ And it was him, and he was like all teary, and he had his son with him. It was so crazy.”
The incident gave Amy a glimpse at what her life would have been like had she become a doctor, a dream she had until being “bad” at math steered her away from a life-saving career.
© Getty Images“I still wish I could have been a doctor,” she admitted. “I wanted to work in emergency medicine. I’m really good in a crisis. “I’m not that smart, but I’m that focused.”
She hasn’t entirely given up her dream either, and already has ideas for her future once she retires from Hollywood.
© Getty Images“I have this fantasy that when I retire from acting,” she said. “I’m going to be one of the seniors that volunteers down at Cedars[-Sinai Hospital].”
Meanwhile, Amy and Darren first met in acting class in 2001 and dated for more than a decade before tying the knot in 2015. The couple welcomed their daughter in 2010.
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