Overview
- Adams recounted the episode on the SmartLess podcast while promoting Apple TV+’s Cape Fear, telling hosts on Monday that she and her family were the first on the scene in Santa Monica.
- She said she and her father grabbed beach towels to apply pressure, kept the injured man calm, and elevated him to slow bleeding, and that the man survived.
- Adams credited basic first‑aid guidance she learned during a brief 2004 role on the medical drama Dr. Vegas for informing some of the steps she used.
- She said she did not see the stabbing itself, pieced together limited context from bystanders, and later ran into the same man about a year afterward at a restaurant where he thanked her.
- News coverage relies on Adams’s first‑person account and does not cite police reports, medical records, or an identified victim, leaving motive, perpetrator and emergency‑response details unverified.