Where this was said
Amy's Stabbing Rescue in Santa Monica
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Amy Adams describes leaving a favorite Santa Monica restaurant with her father and daughter when people started screaming that a man was dying. Her husband Darren stayed with their daughter while Amy and her father — both calm under pressure, both Army-adjacent — ran over to help. The man had been stabbed in the neck. His friends were panicking. Amy grabbed towels (they were heading to the beach), and her father applied direct pressure while Amy spoke to the victim directly: slow your pulse, take a breath, the more you struggle the faster you'll bleed, lay down, let's elevate this. The hosts are stunned. Then Amy delivers the kicker: a year later, she was in a restaurant when a stranger mentioned he'd heard a story about her dad and the stabbing. She said yes. He pulled back his collar. It was the victim. He had his son with him. He was teary. It is, by any measure, the single most extraordinary anecdote of the episode.
Sean Hayes stopped to help a gunshot victim lying in the street near his Will & Grace taping, applied makeshift pressure with his shirt, and was recognized by the paramedic while still topless.
Amy Adams and her father applied pressure to a man's neck after he was stabbed outside their Santa Monica restaurant. Amy coached the panicking victim to slow his pulse rate and stay calm. One year later, he walked up to her in a restaurant and lifted his collar to show her the scar.
Amy Adams and her father applied pressure to a stabbing victim's neck wound outside a Santa Monica restaurant, and Amy ran into the survivor a year later.
