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NCIS star Pauley Perrette, staunch LGBTI ally and activist, attacked in Hollywood
Actress Pauley Perrette was attacked on the street outside her Hollywood home on Thursday by a homeless man who threatened to kill her.
The staunch LGBTI activist and star of TV’s NCIS took to Twitter early Friday (13 November) to share details of the horrific attack.
‘I almost died tonight,’ she wrote.
The actress said she was walking to a guest house she recently bought to meet with an architect when she was jumped by a man who she described as ‘very psychotic.’
She wrote that he ‘repeatedly’ punched her in the nose and forehead and told her that he was going to kill her.
‘I was alone, terrified and trapped,’ Perrette wrote. ‘There was an empty garage behind me and I knew if he got me in there I was dead.’
The man repeatedly told Perrette that his name is William and only stopped the attack when she said to him: ‘William is a beautiful name. I have a little nephew named William.’
She collapsed on a sidewalk after he let her go and was able to text a neighbor who followed the man until police could arrest him.
The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of felony battery. He is being held on $100,000 bail.
Perrette, 46, has played the brilliant but offbeat forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on the CBS drama NCIS since 2003.
Last weekend, she was one of the presenters at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Vanguard Awards. She is one of the most visible straight allies of the community with high-profile participation in the Los Angeles AIDS Walk each year as well an many other events.
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