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80s bombshell reveals she was forced out of Hollywood after shooting a stalker in her bedroom


Heather Thomas shot to fame on the TV show The Fall Guy, which recently inspired a movie adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt .

Members of the public sent her wreaths and a box of bullets, a knife-wielding intruder leapt over her garden gate - and one man even broke into her bedroom at night, prompting her to shoot him with birdshot and rock salt. The Fall Guy ran on ABC from 1981 to 1986, starring Heather alongside Lee Majors and Douglas Barr as stunt performers who also work as bounty hunters. The series became a bona fide hit and turned Heather into a household name, which forced her to confront the dark side of public notoriety

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