Amy Adams applies on-screen medical training in real-life rescue

Amy Adams recently told the “Smartless” podcast that she saved a stabbing victim’s life using skills she learned from the short-lived CBS medical drama “Dr. Vegas.”

Adams said she and her family were the “first people on the scene” of the stabbing as they walked out of their “favorite” Santa Monica restaurant.

“These people were screaming and a guy was walking and they were yelling, ‘He’s dying!’ And my husband’s like, ‘That’s blood!’” Adams recalled.

Adams said after spotting the man, who had been “stabbed in the neck,” her husband, Darren Le Gallo, stayed with her daughter, while she and her dad rushed in to help.

“He was bleeding and his friends were freaking out,” Adams said. She explained that she felt very “focused” in the moment, using beach towels to apply pressure and stop the flow of blood.

Adams told the victim, “The more you struggle, the faster you’re going to bleed. Just lay down.” This was advice she learned playing registered nurse Alice Doherty in “Dr. Vegas,” which ran for just five episodes on CBS in 2004. The show starred Rob Lowe as Dr. Billy Grant, a young doctor who lives and works in an old-school Las Vegas resort and casino. Other cast members included Sarah Lancaster, Lisa Gabriel, Joe Pantoliano, Tom Sizemore and Adam Clark.

Adams said a year after the incident, she ran into the stabbing victim at a restaurant.

“A guy walks up to me… He’s like, ‘I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed,’” she remembered. “And I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s you.’ And it was him.”

-Variety