“I’m sitting there somehow going: ‘You need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath in’. Like, 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’.”
The actor went on to credit her stint in 2004 medical TV series Dr. Vegas with giving her some basic knowledge of first aid.
Adams revealed the stabbing victim survived and she ran into him in a restaurant about a year later.
She said: “A guy walks up to me in a restaurant. 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, yeah, that’s so funny you heard that story’ … I was like: ‘Oh my God, it’s you!’ And it was him. And he was all teary and he had his son with him. It was so crazy.”
Amy Adams rushed to help a man bleeding from a neck wound in Santa Monica. The victim survived and later thanked her when they met in a restaurant. Photo / Getty Images
When asked about the details surrounding the stabbing, Adams said she had no idea what really took place.
“I mean, 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. They were going to go back to someone’s house and he just freaked out. But I don’t know kind of what the whole story is.”