Actor Hugh Jackman had a hair-raising encounter with his stalker on Saturday, according the New York Post. The Hollywood hunk, known for playing grizzly superhero Wolverine and singing on Broadway, was accosted by his long-time stalker who threw an electric razor filled with her own pubic hair at the actor.
Jackman is starring in the upcoming film Wolverine, for which he must be physically toned, and will be reprising the character in next year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, so anyone that follows Jackman as closely as Kathleen Thurston does would know that he can be found at the gym. Just as Jackman pushes his own physical form to new limits in pursuit of building an electrifying screen presence, Thurston pushes forward the art of being a crazy, movie-star obsessed lunatic by hurling an electric razor filled with pubic hair at her chosen target.
Thurston, who is described by the Post as a “stalker,” currently lives at a home for the mentally ill in Harlem, and frequently takes the train downtown to follow, watch, and sometimes harass Jackman. Saturday’s event may have crossed the line however, as Thurston snuck into the private gym at which Jackman is a member and hurled the electric razor at him during his workout while shouting, “I love you!”
Jackman was unharmed, Thurston was subdued, and everyone involved with the incident, with the obvious exception of Thurston, likely spent the next several minutes trying to parse out the message that was meant to be conveyed by the bizarre scene.
Thurston was taken into custody by the NYPD, and police grotesquely used DNA evidence to identify the pubic hair in the electric razor as Thurston’s.
Jackman has encountered Thurston before. He said that he has seen her outside of his daughter’s school, and she once showed up at the home he shares with his wife, actress Deborra-Lee Furness. Fortunately, Thurston did not bring her pubic-hair filled weapon of choice to their previous encounters.
Jackman spoke with reporters after the incident, and he expressed sympathy for his obsessive stalker/attacker. “Here’s a woman who obviously needs help, so I just hope she gets the help she needs. I suppose for me the primary concern is my family, obviously.”
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