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Celebrity Good Samaritans: 7 Times Big Name Actors Came to the Rescue of Car Accident Victims

Celebrity News, Jamie Foxx, Luke Wilson, Mark Harmon, Patrick Dempsey, Ryan Gosling, Tom Cruise, Vin Diesel

Nope, these aren’t rehearsals for new action films. Just some big name celebs helping others in need.

Patrick Dempsey

I’m sure more than a few of us have spent some time daydreaming about the day Dr. McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy would save us, but for one teen, that wasn’t a dream at all. The actor pulled a teenage boy to safety after his car flipped near Dempsey’s home in Malibu. 17-year-old Weston Masset was driving when his car flipped three times leaving him trapped and nearly unconscious. After pulling Masset from the car, Dempsey called an ambulance and stayed with the teen as he was airlifted to the hospital and later treated for a concussion and an eye injury. According to Masset, Dempsey had a pretty great sense of humor about things. When Masset asked, “Are you famous?” Dempsey replied, “Yeah, I’m a doctor.”

Jamie Foxx

The Oscar winner saved a man’s life after his truck crashed in front of Foxx’s home in 2016. The truck caught fire, rolled in a drainage ditch– the driver was trapped inside. Foxx gave an interview about the events saying, “As I’m getting him out, I said, ‘You’ve got to help me get you out because I don’t want to have to leave you.’ I said, ‘You’ve angels around you.’” Foxx and an off-duty EMT were successful in getting the man out of the truck. Foxx is humble about the whole thing saying, “I don’t look at it as heroic. I just look at it as…you just had to do something. It all worked out.” It should be noted that the driver was arrested for driving under the influence. Foxx posted a photo to Instagram after the accident that showed him hugging the young man’s father and saying, “No heroes…Just happy fathers.”

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Tom Cruise

We know Tom Cruise likes doing his own stunts in his films but he used those skills for some pretty cool heroics in real life, too. In 1996, Cruise witnessed a 23-year-old woman, Heloisa Vinhas, get hit by a car. Did he just keep going? He could have. Instead, he sprung into action. He directed nearby pedestrian to call an ambulance and followed Vinhas to the hospital. When he found out that she didn’t have insurance to pay the $7000 hospital bill, Cruise took his good samaritan role even further–he stepped up and took care of it. The woman, as you can imagine was more than grateful for what was Mission Impossible for her. (too cheesy? Yeah, maybe.)

Luke Wilson

Just this past February 2018, Luke Wilson was involved in a multi car accident in Los Angeles. He was hit by a Ferrari in which pro-golfer Bill Haas was a passenger. Haas was injured; sadly, the driver of the Ferrari did not survive. However, after his car was struck, Wilson acted quickly to help a 50-year-old woman who was trapped inside her flipped vehicle. Her leg was pinned and she was unable to get out of the car on her own. Wilson and another onlooker worked quickly to get her to safety. According to his fellow hero, Sean Heirigs, “He was calm. He was definitely a hero, super nice guy.”

Mark Harmon

One man owes his life to the NCIS star after he was trapped in a fiery car crash that could have certainly been much worse. When Colin Specht got into a car accident outside of Harmon’s home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Harmon jumped into action. Specht’s friend (who was driving the car) got out, but Sprecht himself was pinned. Next thing he knew, Mark Harmon was breaking the window with a sledge hammer and pulling Sprecht, then 16, from the fiery vehicle. “He tugged me, because I was still upside down with the seat belt on, and he ripped me out of the car,” Sprecht said. Though Sprecht credits Harmon for his life, Harmon said, “I won’t take credit for it, because if the car explodes and I’m there next to the car, then you’re talking about two young boys who don’t have a father. And you’d be doing this interview with my wife and talking about how stupid it was.”

Vin Diesel

The Fast & Furious actor pulled a move that we wouldn’t be surprised to see in one of his films. In 2002, Diesel spotted a car crash in front of him in Hollywood and saved an entire family from harm. He ran over to the vehicle and safely got the family, which included two young kids, from the vehicle before the car reportedly went up in flames. Who doesn’t love this story?

Ryan Gosling

Here’s a fun, not so serious one for you! Ryan Gosling saved a British reporter from an oncoming cab in New York City. British people are used to looking both ways when crossing the street, but they get it backwards in America because they don’t drive on the same side of the road. When the reporter went to cross the street and looked the wrong way Ryan Gosling (off all the people in New York) grabbed her and pulled her away just in time. And yes, many of us wish we were that reporter-even with that imminent risk of danger!

3 Reasons Mediation Makes Celebrity Divorces Easier

Ben Affleck, Chris Martin, Divorce, Gwen Stefani, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Garner, Life, Tom Cruise, Top Stories

From Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale’s surprising divorce to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s “conscious uncoupling,” it is well known the rich and famous have high divorce rates. One thing all the players still seem to have in common though? A desire to keep their dirty laundry to themselves. Below are the three reasons private mediation rather than a public day in court can be the right answer for many celebrities.

1. Mediation is quicker and less expensive than full blown litigation.

LA power lawyers are pricey, charging their celeb clients upwards of $750.00 per hour. Even stars with net worths in the hundreds of millions of dollars don’t want to throw out money. So while celebs generally have lawyers throughout mediation, the process is much, much quicker than traditional litigation thanks to less stringent rules regarding documentation, evidence and testimony. This quicker process means that not only do parties save money but they reduce the pain and stress on the family. This is especially when children are involved. Though as of this writing, they are still technically together, it is well known that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck turned to mediation in order to keep their children’s best interests as top priority when the couple opted for mediation when working out visitation, custody and other matters related to their three children. And, something additional to think about? Maybe the quicker, less contentious atmosphere of mediation, has helped this couple stay together, or at least put their divorce on hold despite announcing their intention to do so more than a year ago.

2. Mediation is private.

Divorce is messy for everyone but with celebrities these matters often involve salacious tales of drugs, cheating, bad judgment, and, not to mention, revelations of financial details. So, it is no surprise that celebrities, perhaps more than average Joes and Janes want to keep these matters private. With the paparazzi on a constant hunt for a juicy story, celebrity couples going through a divorce can harness some sense of security by knowing that mediation is confidential and that by staying out of court their family’s private life remains just that–private. Though other factors were at play, it is thanks to the confidentiality of mediation that the details of Tom Cruise’s three divorces are nowhere to be found. Without that, imagine the details and drama about Mimi, Nicole and Katie’s lives that would be out there in the public domain.

3. Mediation offers a distinct path to settlement.

The goal of mediation is to settle. Trace and Rhonda Atkins divorce is a great example of how mediation can coax a settlement. Their divorce, stemming from Trace’s years of boozing and womanizing began intensely with Rhonda demanding a settlement worth nearly $20 million. But instead of engaging in an aggressive, drawn out legal battle, she soon sought dismissal of the case, and the couple proceeded with mediation. A private compromise was reached and family was spared the trauma of having the world knowing exactly what was going on behind doors at the Atkins’ house.