Popular ‘80s actress Heather Thomas said she left Hollywood after “scary” encounters with stalkers.
She opened up about the dark side of fame following her success on “The Fall Guy” during the March 17 episode of the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast with Steve Kmetko.
“I was just getting so many stalkers,” Thomas said, before noting that it was “really bad.”
She told Kmetko she was dealing with at least two stalkers each week, and it all became too much. “I had tons of restraining orders. I had two little girls, and a guy’s jumping our gate with a giant buck knife,” she said.
“In those days, I don’t know if this is true now, but people would fixate. You could be in a soap commercial, and they would fixate on you. And there weren’t a lot of stalker laws, ” she said.
Thomas explained…
