A blonde bombshell from the 1980s has revealed that she fled Hollywood after being beset by a fleet of crazed stalkers.
Heather Thomas sH๏τ to fame on the TV show The Fall Guy, which recently inspired a movie adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
The series became a bona fide hit and turned Heather into a household name, which forced her to confront the dark side of notoriety.
Members of the public sent her wreaths and a box of bullets, a knife-wielding intruder leapt over her garden gate – and one man even broke into her bedroom at night, prompting her to shoot him with birdsH๏τ and rock salt.
By the late 1990s, she had become so fed up of the danger from ‘psychos’ that she removed herself from show business altogether.
Now 67 and back in the industry, Heather has told the bone-chilling story of her experience with the underbelly of fame on the Still Here Hollywood podcast.
Blonde bombshell Heather Thomas, pictured in 1982, has revealed that she fled Hollywood after being beset by a fleet of crazed stalkers
The Fall Guy ran on ABC from 1981 to 1986, starring Heather alongside Lee Majors and Douglas Barr as stunt performers who also work as bounty hunters.
When the show ended, Heather continued her career as an actress, but ‘was just getting so many stalkers,’ she remembered.
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‘Really bad, at least two a week. I had tons of restraining orders. I had two little girls, and a guy’s jumping our gate with a giant buck knife,’ she recalled.
Heather now has three daughters – Shauna, Kristina and India – with her husband, entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham, whom she married in 1992.
‘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 and I just needed to be home anyway. There was one year where I was home two months and that’s not gonna raise kids,’ she observed.
Her situation became ‘really scary,’ as she was sent darkly suggestive items like ‘a box of bullets’ and ‘funeral wreaths’ that her stalkers ‘stole from graveyards.’
Heather was contending with ‘a lot of psychos,’ and ‘always had a bodyguard in the house because that’s where – I didn’t wanna come home to a dark house.’
She divulged: ‘And I know I had one guy one night cut my screen in my bedroom and got in and I sH๏τ him, and yeah, with rock salt and birdsH๏τ.’
Now 67 and back in the industry, Heather has told the bone-chilling story of her experience with the underbelly of fame on the Still Here Hollywood podcast; pictured last year
The Fall Guy ran from 1981 to 1986, starring Heather alongside Lee Majors and Douglas Barr as stunt performers who also work as bounty hunters; Heather and Lee pictured on the show
The series became a bona fide hit and turned Heather into a household name, which forced her to confront the dark side of public notoriety
Even after she withdrew from show business, ‘a couple of years’ went by before the frenzied attention from stalkers finally died down.
She returned to acting in 2013, explaining that ‘every now and then I’ll do like a Sundance film’ after having ‘cooled it for awhile’ as far as her career was concerned.
Last year, she enjoyed a reunion with her The Fall Guy co-star Lee Majors for a cameo in the film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
While attending the move’s premiere, she joked that she was ‘geriatric’ and was ‘happy I can walk the red carpet at this point,’ via The Hollywood Reporter.
She also delivered a paean to real life stunt performers, praising them for ‘the risks they take, the training they have to go into and the real-life hits they take.’
Heather noted: ‘I mean, it’s a lot of wear and tear on the body, and they are so skilled and so brilliant and we couldn’t make movies without them.’
