‘Fall Guy’ star Heather Thomas left Hollywood after stalkers got out of hand

Heather Thomas skilled the darkish aspect of Hollywood after her time on “The Fall Guy.”

Thomas revealed on the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast that after her time on the hit present, she was bombarded with scary conditions involving stalkers. 

Thomas was on “The Fall Guy” from 1981 till the collection concluded in 1986. She took on a number of different roles after the present ended, equivalent to within the movies “Red Blooded American Girl” and “Against The Law,” however she determined to depart Hollywood behind within the ’90s.

“Fall Guy” star Heather Thomas left Hollywood after a number of incidents with stalkers. (Getty Photos)

“I was just getting so many stalkers,” she mentioned earlier than explaining that it was “really bad.” It obtained to the purpose the place Thomas was coping with two stalkers per week, she advised podcast host Steve Kmetko.

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“I had one guy one night cut my screen in my bedroom and got in, and I shot him.”

— Heather Thomas

“I had tons of restraining orders. I had two little girls, and a guy was jumping our gate with a giant buck knife. 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. There weren’t a lot of stalker laws, and I just needed to be home anyway,” Thomas mentioned.

Heather Thomas and Lee Majors starred on the ABC collection “The Fall Guy.” (American Broadcasting Corporations by way of Getty Photos)

She described her expertise as being “scary” and even obtained some threatening objects within the mail.

“Someone sent me a box of bullets, and people would send me funeral wreaths they stole from a graveyard,” the actress shared.

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Thomas continued, “I always had a bodyguard in the house because that’s where I didn’t want to come home to a dark house.”

Heather Thomas left Hollywood behind within the ’90s. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Photos)

She defined that issues turned violent when a person tried to interrupt into her bed room.

“I had one guy one night cut my screen in my bedroom and got in, and I shot him,” she mentioned whereas clarifying that she had rock salt in her firearm. Thomas remains to be uncertain if the intruder ever went to jail.

Thomas mentioned that she has not been open about her stalkers previously as a result of she didn’t need to be labeled as “the lady that was stalked.”

Heather Thomas shot an intruder making an attempt to enter her bed room. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

In the course of the podcast episode, Thomas additionally mentioned being sexualized in Hollywood.

“I think there’s a certain amount of disassociation,” she mentioned of the trade. “It was really my business. It would be like a woman who sold bathing suits. It was the way I sold things.”

Thomas mentioned she was “happy” together with her physique as a result of she “worked hard” for it.

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When Thomas made her debut in Hollywood, she was a pupil at UCLA and needed to deal with writing and directing, however she shortly realized it was “rough” for ladies.

“The Fall Guy” aired from 1981-1986. (American Broadcasting Corporations by way of Getty Photos)

She in the end selected to be on-camera versus being behind-the-scenes due to the paycheck. Thomas mentioned she was “making so much money” that she selected the trail of “least resistance.”

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