Stalked stars: Sandra Bullock’s real-life panic room call to 911. Keep scrolling to learn about the terrifying situation the Pretty Woman star faced.
1. The 911 Call
In 2014, the actress made a terrified call to the LAPD. The fear in Bullock’s voice on the 911 call was palpable.
2. An Intruder
“I just saw them walk into the attic. I think it was a man”, she said.
3. Sleep Interrupted
Sandra was asleep in her bed when strange noises woke her up. When she got up to investigate, she saw that a stranger had broken into her house.
4. Sandra Locked Herself
“I have a safe door in my bedroom, and I’ve locked it. I’m locked in the closet right now””, the actress declared to the police.
5. Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
The entire situation played out like a scene from a thriller movie. Sandra heard someone banging on the door of her bedroom.
6. The Obsessed Fan
Luckily, police were quick to arrive at the scene and were able to stop the man before he could enter Sandra’s bedroom. The man arrested in her home was 39-year-old Joshua Corbett, an obsessed fan who was stalking her and her family.
7. Joshua Corbett Was Arrested
As he was being taken away, he began calling out to her. He said, ‘I’m sorry, I love you, Sandy. ’
8. The Creepy Letters
Police found photos of Sandra and letters he had written to her in his possession. In those letters, he referred to her as his wife and her son Louis as his son.
9. Delusional Disorder
One of the letters said: “I will forever be thinking of you and Louis, my son as you are my wife by law, the law of God and you belong to me”.
10. Sandra’s Son Was Not Home
“Fortunately, 4-year-old Louis wasn’t home during the break-in. The Miss Congeniality star recalled: “It was the one night that Louis wasn’t with me”.
11. The 2014 Guys Choice Awards
The night before, Sandra had been presenting at the 2014 Guys Choice Awards. It was the one night that Sandra’s nanny went, ‘let me just take him to my apartment which is up the street ‘cuz you’re gonna be out late’.
12. Not The First Time
Joshua had been desperately trying to meet Sandra for months, by attending the same events and galas as her. He believed that once she saw him, she would fall in love with him.
13. The Mental Health Of Joshua
Corbett was sentenced to five years of probation and was placed in a mental hospital. “He’s there because he thought he had a relationship with her, albeit delusional, but that’s what he thought”, the police stated.
14. He Did Not Comply With The Instructions
However, he was released shortly after. In 2018, after allegedly failing to attend a court date, police arrived at Joshua’s home to serve him a warrant.
15. A Violent Prisoner
He even threatened to kill the officers who tried to serve the arrest warrant and take him into custody. Josuha, who had previously been found in possession of multiple weapons, got into a standoff with the police.
16. No Happy Ending
5 hours later, a SWAT team was able to enter his home, and they discovered that he had taken his own life. There were no gunshots heard, no evidence of any sort of shooting, and there was no officer-involved shooting.
17. The Aftermath
“Over the years, Sandra spoke out about the incident, recognizing that it led to her developing PTSD. “I was literally in the closet going ‘this doesn’t end well’”, Sandra once confessed.
18. The System Failed Him
And despite everything, she still felt compassion for Joshua, who ultimately lost his struggle with mental health. Sandra believes that the system failed him.
19. One Of The Most Popular Actresses In Hollywood
Today, everybody loves Sandra. The actress and film producer is known for her charismatic energy and wit onscreen, especially as girl-next-door characters in romantic comedies.
20. Early Life
Bullock spent most of her childhood in Nürnberg, West Germany, though she often traveled with her mother, who was a German opera singer. Occasionally, Sandra performed in her mother’s productions.
21. Her Professional Career
Bullock attended high school in Virginia, and she later studied drama at East Carolina University. In 1986, she moved to New York, where she studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
22. Rise To Stardom
In 1992, Bullock displayed her earnest charm in the romantic comedy Love Potion No. 9. This led to a series of films the following year, including the thriller The Vanishing; Demolition Man, in which she starred alongside action star Sylvester Stallone; and the drama Wrestling Ernest Hemingway.
23. Commercial Success
In the late 1990s, the American actress founded the production company Fortis Films, which in 1998 produced the romantic drama Hope Floats and the comedy Practical Magic; Bullock starred in both movies. That same year, her voice was featured in the animated film The Prince of Egypt.
24. 28 Days
She returned to familiar territory as an endearing but eccentric lead in the romantic comedy Forces of Nature, opposite Ben Affleck. In 2000, her performance in 28 Days was praised.
25. Miss Congeniality
Later that year, Bullock had a box office hit with Miss Congeniality, a comedy in which she played an FBI agent who goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant.
26. Two Weeks Notice
Continuing to pursue work in all genres of film, she starred as a homicide detective in Murder by Numbers. She also starred as a playwright who has a difficult relationship with her mother in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and as an underappreciated lawyer in Two Weeks Notice.
27. Academy Award
In 2009, after appearing in the romantic comedies The Proposal and All About Steve, Bullock starred as a determined mother in the sports drama The Blind Side; she won numerous accolades for her performance, including an Academy Award for “Best Actress”. Another maternal role followed in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, a film about a boy coping with the death of his father in the September 11 attacks.
28. Bird Box
In 2018, Bullock played the mastermind of a jewelry heist in Ocean’s 8, the female-driven reboot of the Ocean’s franchise. She was also cast as a mother who takes a perilous journey blindfolded in Bird Box, a supernatural thriller in which an obscure force destroys those who look upon it.
29. The Lost City
In her next film, The Unforgivable, in 2021, Bullock portrayed a convicted murderer who searches for redemption and her younger sister after being released from prison. She returned to comedy with The Lost City in 2022, which is about a romance writer who is kidnapped.
30. Beauty And Brains
In that same year, she was also featured in the action-comedy Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt, in a role that was mostly voice work. But Sandra is still the golden girl people simply adore, no matter what kind of role she chooses to play.
