Rachel Bilson gets restraining order against alleged stalker who called her his ‘future wife’
It has been revealed that actress Rachel Bilson obtained a restraining order against an alleged stalker just hours before she was due to attend SCAD TVFest 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, February 9.
According to documents obtained by online radarA judge granted the protective order against a 40-year-old man known as “Clyde,” who the actress says has tried to break into her Los Angeles home on “multiple occasions.”
Clyde is now prohibited from coming within 100 yards of the OC star or his eight-year-old daughter, Briar Rose Christensen, whom he shares with ex-partner and Star Wars actor Hayden Christensen.
Additionally, the man is prohibited from contacting or harassing Bilson after he allegedly obtained her phone number and drove from her Georgia home to see her in Los Angeles.
“There have been many incidents, social media posts, letters, but most alarming, there have been multiple attempts to visit, to enter my home,” Bilson, 41, told the court.
Protective Order: It has been revealed that actress Rachel Bilson obtained a restraining order against an alleged stalker just hours before she was due to attend SCAD TVFest 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, February 9.
She continued: ‘He refers to me as ‘baby’ and calls me his ‘wife to be’ and indicates that he thinks I am pregnant with his child.
“I have never met him and I have absolutely no intention of doing so.”
The restraining order will remain in effect until February 9, 2026.
With the protective order in place, Bilson may have felt a renewed sense of security when she made the decision to attend this year’s SCAD TVFest.
He was there to promote Accused, a crime drama television series developed by writer-producer Howard Gordon that is based on the 2010 British series of the same name.
The show premiered on January 22.
It garnered over 11.3 million viewers and a 2.3 rating among the 18-49 demographic within three days of its multi-platform premiere.
The Accused is now the highest-rated and most-watched debut on Fox in the past three years, according to Deadline.
The series narrates the common people in which each episode opens in a courtroom introducing the defendants without knowing their crime or how they ended up in the trial and we are told the events that led them here from the point of view of the accused.
Along with Bilson, the cast also includes Whitney Cummings, Abigail Breslin, Michael Chiklis, Margo Martindale, Molly Parker, Rhea Perlman, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Wendell Pierce, and Jack Davenport, among many others.
According to documents obtained by RadarOnline, a judge granted the protective order against a man known as “Clyde,” who the actress said tried to break into her Los Angeles home on “multiple occasions.”
“There have been many incidents, social media posts, letters, but most alarming, there have been multiple attempts to visit, to break into my home,” Bilson, 41, told the court.
Born into a California show business family, Bilson made her television debut in 2003 and went on to land the role of Summer Roberts on the primetime drama The OC.
Within three years, he would make his feature film debut in the romantic comedy-drama The Last Kiss (2006), alongside co-stars Zach Braff, Casey Affleck, and Jacinda Barrett.
For her follow-up film, the Los Angeles native starred in Jumper (2008) with Christensen, who was her boyfriend at the time.
Her Hollywood career also includes playing the role of Zoe Hart on The CW comedy-drama series Hart of Dixie (2011-2015), which ended up running for four seasons.
She continued: ‘He refers to me as ‘baby’ and calls me his ‘wife to be’ and indicates that he thinks I am pregnant with his child’; Bilson seen on Thursday
The restraining order will remain in effect until February 9, 2026.
With the protective order in place, Bilson may have felt a renewed sense of security when she made the decision to attend this year’s SCAD TVFest.
Promo Mode: He was there to promote Accused, a crime drama television series developed by writer-producer Howard Gordon that is based on the 2010 British series of the same name.