{"id":2473060,"date":"2026-06-24T03:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2473060"},"modified":"2026-06-24T03:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:55:43","slug":"amy-adams-reveals-how-she-and-her-dad-helped-save-the-life-of-a-man-who-was-stabbed-in-the-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/amy-adams-reveals-how-she-and-her-dad-helped-save-the-life-of-a-man-who-was-stabbed-in-the-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Adams reveals how she and her dad helped save the life of a man who was stabbed in the neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Amy Adams is looking back on the time she helped save the life of a man who had been stabbed in the neck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Adams was with her father, the Army serviceman turned singer Richard Adams, when she saw a group of people yelling &#8220;he&#8217;s dying&#8221; while pointing to a bleeding man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actress told the hosts of the <em>Smartless <\/em>podcast how &#8220;everything becomes very focused in an emergency,&#8221; and she and her father were able to render life-saving aid before authorities arrived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/amy-adams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Amy Adams;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Amy Adams&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Amy Adams<\/a> has played many roles: gallerist, linguist, beauty queen, painter. But she keeps one real-life role up her sleeve in case of emergency: life saver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The six-time Oscar nominee once had a life-or-death encounter that required quick thinking, she revealed on Monday&#8217;s episode of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/smartless\/id1521578868?i=1000772408054\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Smartless;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Smartless&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>Smartless<\/em><\/a> podcast. After hearing cohost <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/sean-hayes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Sean Hayes;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sean Hayes&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sean Hayes<\/a>&#8216; account of rendering aid to a man who&#8217;d been shot after he taped an episode of <em>Will &amp; Grace<\/em>, Adams noted, &#8220;I get very focused&#8221; in such situations. &#8220;Like, everything becomes very focused in an emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hayes&#8217; fellow cohost, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/will-arnett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Will Arnett;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Will Arnett&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Will Arnett<\/a>, then asked Adams to tell &#8220;that whole story about the time that you saved a dude&#8217;s life.&#8221; So Adams graciously complied.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Amy Adams and her father, Richard Adams, in California<br \/>Credit: Gregg DeGuire\/WireImage<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve come across a couple of scenes where we&#8217;ve been sort of the first people on the scene,&#8221; she began. Once, while in Santa Monica with her father, the Army serviceman-turned-singer Richard Adams, the actress recalled seeing people &#8220;yelling, &#8216;He&#8217;s dying!&#8217; and my husband [said,] &#8216;That&#8217;s blood!&#8217; I was like, Darren, you stay here with our daughter,&#8221; she recalled saying to her husband of 11 years, Darren Le Gallo, about their daughter, Aviana Olea Le Gallo, now 16, while Amy and her father &#8220;ran over&#8217; to help the guy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8216;He&#8217;d been stabbed in the neck, so he was bleeding, and his friends were freaking out. Luckily, we were going to the beach; we grabbed towels \u2014 my dad has been on lots of scenes [and] I guess he attracts them as well \u2014 and applied pressure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <em>Arrival <\/em>star laughed about the level of composure she was able to muster during the crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sitting there somehow going, &#8216;You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in,'&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;I literally was just so focused. I was like, &#8216;The more you struggle, the faster you&#8217;re going to bleed. Just lay down. Let&#8217;s elevate this.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The stabbed man survived. Adams knows this for certain because she encountered him again a year later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A guy walks up to me in the restaurant. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed.&#8217; I was like, &#8216;Yeah, yeah, that&#8217;s so funny you heard that story.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man gestured to his neck, Adams recalled, prompting her to proclaim, &#8220;&#8216;Oh my god, it&#8217;s you.&#8217; And it was him&#8230; he was all teary, and he had his son with him. It was so crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;EW Dispatch newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong><em>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actress recently detailed another &#8220;terrifying&#8221; encounter to <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/how-martin-scorsese-and-steven-spielberg-shaped-new-cape-fear-series-11989753\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:meeting Martin Scorsese for the first time;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;meeting Martin Scorsese for the first time&quot;}\" class=\"link \">meeting Martin Scorsese for the first time<\/a> while shooting the series remake of his 1991 film <em>Cape Fear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The expletives that went through my head, I was so nervous&#8230; I think I was sweating, and I&#8217;m sure I overacted, but I wanted them to know I was committed,&#8221; she recalled of encountering the director over a video call during production. &#8220;It was terrifying, but wonderful that he invested that time. But I was really trying to be cool. I&#8217;m like, &#8216;You got this!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can listen to Adams&#8217; full appearance on the <em>Smartless <\/em>podcast above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/amy-adams-details-saving-life-of-man-stabbed-in-neck-12005478\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Amy Adams is looking back on the time she helped save the life of a man who had been stabbed in the neck. Adams was with her father, the Army serviceman turned singer Richard Adams, when she saw a group of people yelling &#8220;he&#8217;s dying&#8221; while pointing to a bleeding man. 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