Former Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove has recalled her terrifying experience with a traumatic stalker eight years later.
In 2016, a man who had been stalking the 30-year-old iCarly alum committed suicide by setting himself on fire in the front yard of her Los Angeles home. Before dying by suicide, the man opened fire on a woman he mistook for the actress as he drove by Cosgrove’s home.
Cosgrove, who still lives in the house where the incident occurred, admitted in an interview with Bustle that she still doesn’t feel completely comfortable living there.
“That’s another reason why I go back and forth so often,” Cosgrove told the magazine. “I don’t feel very safe in that house.
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Former Nickelodeon star Miranda Cosgrove recalled a terrifying incident with a stalker. (Rich Fury/KCA2021/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
“I couldn’t be there at all for two years after it happened. Then I got into a relationship and I was with that person, so I wasn’t so scared. But being there by myself… I don’t really like it.” ”
Years later, while attending a Kitten Rescue event in Los Angeles, Cosgrove recalled meeting a woman who had accidentally become the target of a stalker.
“This girl came up to me and said, ‘I don’t know if I should talk about this or how to say this, but actually, I’m the girl who was in your house and got shot.’ ,” Cosgrove told Bustle.
“She seemed to process things the same way I did.”
Cosgrove appeared on “iCarly” from 2007 to 2012. (Lisa Rose/Getty Images via Viacom International)
Cosgrove told Bustle that she still enjoys Netflix’s hit show “Baby Reindeer,” which is based on Richard Gadd’s real-life story about being stalked.
“I didn’t really think about it” about the 2016 incident, she said.
Cosgrove praised Gadd for being able to dramatize his traumatic experience on screen.
“If it were me, I feel like I would have to go back and play out my worst experience.” [out]That would be very difficult,” Cosgrove told Bustle.
After turning 30, Cosgrove told Bustle that her “big goal” was “to find a place where I feel really safe, to start a new chapter.” But Cosgrove hasn’t found it yet, he said.
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Cosgrove previously spoke about his experience with a stalker during an appearance on Whitney Cummings’ Good For You podcast in 2020.
The Daytime Emmy Award winner recalled that she decided to spend the night at her parents’ house after a bad date when she was informed by police at 3 a.m. that someone had died in her home.
The actress still lives in the house where the incident occurred. (David M. Bennett/Dave Bennett/Getty Images)
“It was the weirdest thing ever because there was warning tape on it. It was right in my front yard,” Cosgrove recalled.
“Basically, I think a guy came and buried things in my backyard for three days. I buried a lot of things.”
The actress stated that she did not notice the man while she was in the garden. She later learned that the stalker had been prowling around the garden with a gun.
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She and police checked security cameras and discovered that the man had waited on her property for six hours before committing suicide.
“Then someone in a car similar to mine came along and I guess he got confused. I thought maybe I was the one driving him,” said the woman, who I later met. talked about.
“He fired six shots at this person, but missed because she was in the car. She drove away.”
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Cosgrove said police have never determined a motive for the man’s actions. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
Cosgrove told Cummings police a motive for the man’s actions has not yet been determined.
“It could have been pure coincidence, like he found me somewhere and followed me home or something like that. But they never figured out exactly why.” she said.
“I was really surprised,” the “Mother of the Bride” star admitted. “Then I started moving back to my parents’ house.
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“It was really weird. I have fantasies of jumping into a story and figuring out exactly why everything happened. Because I don’t know who that person is and why they’re there and what exactly. I think it would be interesting to know what’s going on.”
“I don’t know if it makes the situation worse or better, but I think it would be interesting to have more answers.”
