Ashley Johnson experienced something terrifying when she was younger.
The 41-year-old actress known for playing Ellie in The Last of Us video games recently revealed that she was almost abducted by a fan once.
Before she became a popular voice actor, Ashley started her career in Hollywood playing Chrissy Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains. During a new episode of her Weird Kids podcast, she said a fan almost kidnapped her after a live taping.
“It was in the first year I was on, and we had only done a couple of film nights,” Ashley said. “So, I hadn’t done that many yet and at that time, all of the cast sort of had trailers and they were like old camper trailers. They’re not like the fancy trailers that they are now. They were great. We would exit our trailers before the shoot and the audience that would be walking in, you would walk by the audience before you would walk into the studio.”
At the time, many of the modern-day security practices weren’t in place and studio audience members were only “within five feet” of performers.
Ashley said they got a message that said they were planning to come to set and “bring a gun,” with intentions to murder some of the cast.
“So, I’m walking with my mom and then I just remember some guy hops out of the line and he grabs me and grabs me up and starts booking it.” the Critical Role star added. “And all I remember is like, there was security that somehow got on him after some time.”
The potential kidnapper had a gun on him, but thankfully security apprehended in time before he could use it.
“I was clueless as to what was happening, but I was very upset and they were talking to me about it after. And they were like, ‘Are you okay?’ And I just said, ‘I just think I’m gonna be in trouble,’” she said. “Because I think I was such a polite kid at the time. I think he was running with me and running away. I was like, ‘Who are you, sir? What is your name? I was very pleased to meet you.’ But he was packing. They got him. This was the thing. He was high on something. It wasn’t meth, but it was something — like, he was so strong.”
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