“Baywatch” actress Alexandra Paul revealed she was relentlessly tormented by a stalker for 13 years, enduring numerous horrifying ordeals.
She opened up about her experiences during an interview with The Ankler published March 26, and said it all began with what appeared to be an innocent knock at her door. Paul said a woman and a young boy appeared at her doorstep in the middle of December 2011, requesting the use of her bathroom for the child. She unknowingly allowed her alleged female stalker into her home.
The famous actress said the German woman continued stalking her and claimed the situation became dangerous, damaging, and frightening. Paul told The Ankler that she ultimately spent over $60,000 to protect herself from her stalker and was only to find peace when the stalker died.
Actress Alexandra Paul arrives at the Pedal On The Pier charity event benefiting inner city schools at Santa Monica Pier on June 5, 2011 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/WireImage) Getty Images
The actress said her alleged stalker moved into a bedroom in a home a few blocks away and sought out opportunities to interact with Paul within the community.
“It was slow, at first, nearly imperceptible. She found me at the community pool and made small talk. Wanting to be polite, I responded. She’d appear on the trail outside my house when I was hiking, so I stopped walking alone,” Paul told the publication.
“It was eerie how she always knew where I was.”
The more the star attempted to distance herself, the more persistent her stalker became.
“One day, she cornered me in a parking garage, desperate to talk to me, and tried to physically prevent me from walking away. I was able to bring the first of many restraining orders against her — but none of them worked. She violated them constantly, and by the time the police arrived, she was always gone,” Paul told The Ankler.
The “Baywatch” star said that “as time went on, her attitude towards me vacillated from awkward adoration to hatred for my husband (“If it wasn’t for Ian,” she told a judge at one hearing, “Alexandra and I would be close friends”), to a certainty that I needed rescuing from him, to anger at both of us for ignoring her, to an insistence that I really was in love with her.”
The alleged stalker distributed posters in Paul’s community, saying the star was an antisemite, and sent her notes telling her she could escape her marriage. “The stalker called the police saying she heard screams coming from our home, that my husband was beating me,” Paul said.
The police were called to investigate the allegations. Paul claimed the alleged stalker also engaged in a negative exchange with her mother. After several years, law enforcement officials arrested the stalker outside of her home, and determined she was in the country illegally with an arrest record for theft, so she was jailed and deported back to Germany. Paul said she thought her ordeal was over – but it wasn’t.
Paul told The Ankler her alleged stalker falsely sued her for trying to run her off the road to kill her, and she was forced to invest thousands into her defense.
She claimed she then launched an “e campaign against my husband, accusing him of pedophilia,” after returning to the United States. The actress shared a series of messages, some to her husband that said, “she doesn’t like dicks, you very much want her to like your dick; staying is a dick move. Frankly, moving in together was a dick move. It makes you look so foolish and desperate, you must be codependent.”
LAS VEGAS – FEBRUARY 09: Actors all formerly of the television series “Baywatch” (L-R), Donna D’Errico, David Hasselhoff, Alexandra Paul and Jaason Simmons, arrive at the after party following the grand opening of Mel Brooks’ musical comedy “The Producers” at the Paris Las Vegas February 9, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hasselhoff plays the character Roger DeBris in the show. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The actress said her husband’s safety was at risk during one alleged encounter, when her alleged stalker “drove her vehicle straight at him. He bounced off the hood, landing hard on the pavement, scraped and bruised, as she drove away.”
There were numerous court dates, and the actress said, “I knew what the stalker would be wearing each time because it was exactly what I had worn at the previous hearing,” she told The Ankler. She went on to say “the restraining orders never stopped her — she broke the first one 29 times.”
Paul claimed she was tormented for 11 years before she sold her Los Angeles home, obtained “special new IDs that protected our identities and rented a house under an LLC.” Paul said the stalker was able to locate them within six weeks.
The FBI was involved, and her alleged stalker was arrested with a recording device in her possession. (RELATED: ‘I Shot Him’: 80s Star Heather Thomas Reveals She Fled Hollywood After ‘Scary’ Encounters With Creeps)
The famous actress said her alleged stalker was diagnosed with breast cancer and uterine tumors and died at the age of 41 – on the same day as the star’s birthday.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
