Amy Adams Recalls Helping Save Man After He Was Stabbed in the Neck - Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip

Amy Adams is looking back at a time she jumped into action to save a man’s life.

While appearing on the Monday (June 22) episode of the SmartLess podcast, the 51-year-old Cape Fear actress detailed how she and her father helped a man after he had been stabbed in the neck.

“We were in Santa Monica, coming out of our favorite restaurant… I was with my dad,” Amy began. “These people were screaming and a guy was walking and they were yelling, ‘He’s dying!’ And my husband’s like, ‘That’s blood!'”

“He’d been stabbed in the neck,” she recalled. “So he was bleeding and his friends were freaking out.”

The Oscar-nominated actress said she grabbed towels while her dad applied pressure to the wound.

“I’m sitting there somehow going, ‘You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in,'” Amy said. “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.'”

Although she didn’t witness the stabbing, Amy said she pieced together some details from those at the scene.

“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,” Amy explained. “They were going to go back to someone’s house and he just freaked out. But I don’t know what the whole story is.”

Nearly a year later, Amy had an unexpected reunion the man she helped save.

“A guy walks up to me in a restaurant,” she said. “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, that’s so funny you heard that story.'”

Moments later, the Arrival actress realize he was the victim.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s you,'” Amy concluded. “He was all teary and he had his son with him. It was so crazy.”

In another recent interview, Amy explained why she stopped using Instagram several years ago.

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