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A handful of celebrities say that they’ve had wild shut encounters with serial killers that left them in a state of disbelief. For some, they crossed paths behind bars, however for others, they narrowly escaped an tried homicide that might have value them their lives. Fortunately, these stars all survived and have been in a position to inform their story.

Learn on to learn the way these stars are linked to serial killers…

1. Bunnie XO

Bunnie XO, who’s married to musician Jelly Roll, not too long ago had an unsettling trade with convicted assassin, Wade Wilson, AKA the “Deadpool Killer.” The podcast host initially started talking to Wilson for a possible docuseries about his crimes — however issues took a flip when he began handing out her cellphone quantity out to random girls.

When she confronted him over a cellphone name, Wilson obtained defensive and “vaguely threatened” her as issues escalated. He introduced up issues he had heard she mentioned about him and insinuated that he knew one thing unhealthy about Jelly Roll’s previous. General, it left Bunny feeling very uncomfortable and she or he ultimately realized it was a mistake reaching out to him.

“I really feel unhealthy for even having empathy for anyone apart from the victims on this,” Bunnie mentioned on  the Dumb Blonde podcast. “I at all times attempt to see each aspect of each story, however I did not know his whole story and I simply should not have mentioned what I mentioned with out realizing so lots of the info.”

2. Jack Merrill

Gray’s Anatomy actor Jack Merrill had a terrifying expertise with serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who killed 33 teenage boys and younger males over the course of six years. Again in 1978, Merrill was 19-years-old and dwelling in Chicago when he encountered the killer on his nightly stroll residence from the YMCA. Gacy invited him to go for a trip in his automobile and Merrill agreed — however issues took a flip when Gacy drove right into a harmful neighborhood. Gacy then drugged Merrill, handcuffed him and took him to his home.

Gacy then introduced Merrill inside his “darkish” residence, which he shortly “sensed was a entice.” The pair then drank beer and smoked “sturdy pot” earlier than Gacy dragged him to his bed room. Gacy put a terrifying home made torture contraption round his neck and proceeded to rape him.

“He caught a gun in my mouth. Then he raped me within the bed room. I knew if I fought him, I didn’t have a lot of an opportunity. I by no means freaked out or yelled. I additionally felt sorry for him in a method, like he didn’t essentially wish to be doing what he was doing, however he couldn’t cease. We’d been there for hours. Lastly, I may inform he was tiring. Abruptly he mentioned, ‘I’ll take you residence,’” Merrill wrote in a bit for Individuals.

Gacy did take Merrill residence, however the actor by no means referred to as the police as a result of he didn’t know he was a serial killer on the time. He ultimately realized Gacy was a assassin after seeing him on the information. Whereas he skilled trauma from the horrific encounter, he made a pact with himself that he would get previous it and reach life.

3. Ashton Kutcher

When Ashton Kutcher was a younger actor, he had an in depth encounter with serial killer Michael Gargiulo, AKA “The Hollywood Ripper.” Kutcher was truly set to go on a date with a girl named Ashley Ellerin who ended up being one in all Gargiulo’s victims. On the day of her homicide, Kutcher spoke with Ellerin at 8:24 p.m., telling her that he’d decide her up at 10 p.m. He later referred to as her to say that he was working late however she didn’t reply.

When he arrived at her residence at 10:45 p.m., Ellerin didn’t reply the door — however he figured that Ellerin was upset with him for being late. Earlier than he left, he observed contemporary purple wine stains on the carpet, which he ultimately realized was truly blood. Gargiulo had stabbed her 47 occasions, practically severing her head from her neck. Kutcher had been on the residence so near the homicide that Gargiulo might have nonetheless been on the property.

Kutcher later took the stand to testify in opposition to Gargiulo and helped set up a timeline surrounding the murders, which led to his conviction.

4. Sean Penn

Sean Penn hung out in jail alongside Richard Ramirez, AKA “The Night time Stalker,” who killed a minimum of 20 individuals throughout residence invasions within the state of California. Throughout his 60 days in county jail, Penn says Ramirez appeared to take a liking to him whereas they had been in cells throughout from each other. Ramirez ended up getting permission to jot down Sean a observe asking for an autograph.

“So, I get this factor from him and it says, ‘Hey, Sean, keep powerful and hit them once more — Richard Ramirez, 666,’ with a pentagram and a rendition of the satan,” Sean shared whereas talking at Loyola Marymount College’s College of Movie & TV.

He continued, “I mentioned, ‘You understand, Richard, it’s not possible to be incarcerated and never really feel a sure kinship together with your fellow inmates. Properly, Richard, I’ve accomplished the not possible, I really feel completely no kinship with you. And I hope gasoline descends upon you earlier than sanity does, you already know? It will be a kinder method out.’ They usually gave it to him. After which my home burned down years later, and that rattling factor of his burned with it.”

5. Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston unknowingly obtained up shut and private with killer Clifton Bloomfield. Earlier than encountering the actor, Bloomfield had murdered two individuals throughout separate theft makes an attempt after which obtained caught throughout one other armed theft try. He spent 18 months behind bars earlier than being paroled. When he was launched, Bloomfield discovered work as a background actor in New Mexico, together with on the set of Breaking Dangerous with Cranston. In the meantime, Bloomfield was additionally persevering with his killing spree.

Bloomfield was initially forged as a background actor within the movie Felon, which adopted a household man who ended up behind bars for killing an intruder. Whereas filming on the Penitentiary of New Mexico, the studio wanted actors who may painting inmates — and Bloomfield match the half. Casting director David Cordova defined that there wasn’t sufficient funds to run background checks on everybody so nobody knew about Bloomfield’s rap sheet.

“We had been anticipating actors to come back to our casting calls. I’m not anticipating the true factor to come back by way of. … I don’t assume anyone else was truly conscious that we had forged a mass assassin on the movie,” Cordova shared.

6. Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry believes that she was virtually a sufferer of Ted Bundy, who sexually assaulted and murdered a minimum of 30 younger girls. Wanting again, Harry says she accepted a trip from a stranger late at evening in New York Metropolis — however upon getting inside his VW Bug, a automobile that Bundy was identified to make use of, she realized one thing was undoubtedly improper and she or he needed to escape.

“I used to be making an attempt to get throughout city to an after-hours membership. A bit white automobile pulls up, and the man presents me a trip. So, I simply continued to try to flag a cab down. However he was very persistent, and he requested me the place I used to be going. It was solely a few blocks away, and he mentioned, ‘Properly, I’ll provide you with a trip.’ It’s the basic setup that has seen many victims, particularly within the seventies, meet their finish,” Debbie shared in a 1989 newspaper article obtained by Dazed.

Contained in the automobile, Debbi shortly realized the within handles had been eliminated and that it smelled horrible. She determined to slowly roll down the window to aim to open the door from the surface. When the driving force observed, he took a pointy flip and the door swung open, throwing her into the road.

Whereas some have questioned the validity of Debbie’s story, she stands by it and even mentioned it in her 2019 memoir, Face It.

7. Dennis Wilson

The Seashore Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson was truly buddies with cult chief and convicted assassin Charles Manson. Wilson first turned concerned with Manson when he met a number of girls who had turn into a few of his followers. The musician picked them up whereas hitchhiking they usually ended up turning into buddies. In flip, the ladies launched him to Manson, who had aspirations of beginning a music profession.

Wilson launched Manson to music trade executives, and members of Manson’s cult even began dwelling with him. Issues took a flip although when Wilson allegedly witnessed Manson homicide a person after which dump his physique down a properly, based on his bandmate Mike Love.

“Dennis was visibly shaken and I requested what was improper?” Love wrote in his memoir Good Vibrations, including that Wilson allegedly replied, “I simply noticed Charlie take his M16 and blow this Black [guy] in half and stuff him down the properly.”

Love says Wilson was “too frightened to go to the police” and “carried that guilt with him for the final 14 years of his life.” After witnessing the alleged homicide and reportedly blowing by way of virtually $100,000 to pay for the group’s meals, medical payments, and damages to his property, Wilson needed out. He ended up transferring out of his residence and leaving it as much as his landlord to formally evict the Manson household.

Wilson later reworked Manson’s music “Stop to Exist” as “By no means Study To not Love” and it was launched by the Seashore Boys. A yr later, Manson started his notorious killing spree.

8. Rupert Everett

British actor Rupert Everett may have been a sufferer of Dennis Nilsen, who was often known as the “Muswell Hill Assassin.” All through the ’70s and ’80s in London, Nilsen murdered a minimum of a dozen younger males and assaulted and dismembered their our bodies. He usually discovered his victims at bars and golf equipment — a kind of being the Coleherne in West London, which Everett thought-about one in all his favourite bars on the time.

“He was within the pub that I used to go to. Yeah, so I could possibly be lifeless. He used to go to the Coleherne, which was this leather-based bar,” Everett informed Piers Morgan. “I didn’t know him, however he was there. I imply, that’s the place he obtained two or three of his victims from.”