Nearly eight years after one of her stalkers lit himself on fire and fatally shot himself in her yard, Miranda Cosgrove admits she still doesn’t feel safe because of the terrifying incident.
During a recent interview with Bustle, the former Drake & Josh star reflected on the 2016 incident, noting she is traumatized. She still lives at the property where it all took place.
“That’s another reason why I go back and forth to my parents so much,” she explained. “I just don’t feel super safe in that house.”
Before he lit himself on fire and shot himself, the man had shot a woman who had driven past Miranda Cosgrove’s home at the time. He thought he had shot the actress.
“For two years after it happened, I wouldn’t really stay there,” Cosgrove recalled. “Then I got into a relationship and because that person was there with me, I was less scared. But I don’t really like being there on my own that much.”
She noted that after her 30th birthday last year, she set a “huge goal” for herself to find a house where she feels “really safe” to “kind of start a new chapter.”
However, she has to find such property.
Miranda Cosgrove Recalls Meeting the Woman Shot By Her Stalker
Miranda Cosgrove further shared she met the woman shot by the stalk. They were both at a Kitten Rescue LA event years later.
“[She said], ‘I don’t know if I should tell you this here or how to say this,” Cosgrove recalled. “But I’m actually the girl that was at your house that got shot at.’”
Miranda Cosgrove noted that the girl seemed to have been processing the tragic event in a similar way she was. “She said she’d just gone through a breakup the night before and was going to her friend’s house because she was so distraught.”
Cosgrove also recalled what the woman told her about the aftermath of the shooting. “When they brought her into the Hollywood Police Station to ask what he looked like and how it all happened, the detectives were like, ‘Start from the very beginning. What happened?’ And she was like, ‘Well, he broke up with me last night,’ and she started telling them all about her breakup.”
Cosgrove previously recalled the experience, noting she had received a call at 3 in the morning about something occurring at her home. “It was the weidest htine ver bceause they had caution tape up and you know, tiw as right in my front yard.”
Miranda also said that the man had come to her house days prior. He had been burying things in her yard. Among the items buried was a lunchbox with chocolate milk inside of it. “And then he buries like knives and a rope, and a bunch of random stuff.