There isn’t much more I can imagine that would be scarier than this: model turned actress Jamie King was stalked by an escaped mental patient.
The 29-year-old described the ordeal as “scary” and “freaky” to E! News.
“My intention with the work that I do is to create something that really touches in to people and that people love,” she said. “It’s really strange when somebody takes that to a whole different level.”
King added: “I think that an interesting thing with celebrities and stars is that you feel so close to them because you see them in such a vulnerable place when they’re acting.”
A source confirmed that the threat to the actress was “very real and he was very aggressive. He had recently escaped from a mental institute. It was scary.”
Digital Spy
While we all like to check out celebrities, and obviously the internet allows us to look at celebrities in a way that is different again than how Jamie descibes here, and there is always going to be someone who takes it too far.
Australian Radio journalist Sarah MacDonald wrote in her book that she also had a stalker, and describes how it feels in a way that is both humorous and truthful.
F-grade celebritities get the sperm-covered letters without the sex, the death threats without the protection, and the stalkers without the psycological asistance. A persistant, psychologically troubled bloke had been pestering me for the last year, and while one of my bosses thought it must have been ‘flattering’, it just made me feel scared, vulnerable and violated. Stalkers colonise your mind and I wanted mine back.
From her novel Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
I can’t imagine how it is for people to be followed and pestered at their homes and workplaces, and have someone describe it as flattering. Many people seem to think that attention is harmless and you should consider it a compliment. Obviously the reality is that the experience is scary and unsafe to say that least.
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It's debilitating to be stalked. Especially if you think they'd hurt your children to get to you... you stop your life to not make a bad move. Basically, it's a slow death.
1Until you get sick of it and decide to just live until you have to fight to live some more. There isn't a whole lot more than that you can do.
"Many people seem to think that attention is harmless and you should consider it a compliment."
That is the truth, and so WRONG. Too many people look sane when they are completely insane. You can't trust anybody, even the people that you work with. You should always keep your personal business to a distance and never give too much information. Celebrities give too much information on their personal lives, which helps to lead a lot of these violent psychopaths’s into feeling even closer to them.
And just like the average person, they should always change up their route when they’re going to an area that is the norm for them. Meaning, never go the same route to any of their favorite stores, going home, or to work. And if they know they have a stalker, then one of the main things they should also remember, is to never sit outside at an eatery. They paparazzi may be hanging around, but they can’t save them from a weapon and etc...
The paparazzi could also draw the attention away from the stalker and give them enough time to prepare themselves for the worst that they’re planning for the celebrity at a distance.
Again...just because a stalker stays at a distance, does NOT mean that they're harmless. And no one, celebrity or not, should ever find their behavior as a compliment. Their undesirable actions should be dealt with immediately.
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