Eva LaRue, former star of CSI: Miami, All My Children and more, is opening up about a terrifying situation she endured with a stalker for several years. LaRue details the experience in the new Paramount+ docuseries, My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story.

What did Eva LaRue say about the encounter she had with a stalker?

According to Yahoo! Entertainment, LaRue said a stalker became obsessed with her in the 1990s and early 2000s when she was playing Dr. Maria Santos Grey on the All My Children soap opera. The stalker, according to LaRue, sent dozens of letters threatening to torture, rape and murder her. He signed the letters as Freddy Krueger, the horror character from A Nightmare on Elm Street.

LaRue said her daughter also became a target at just 5 years old, as the stalker made similar threats against her and tracked her down at school.

“You don’t know where the threat is coming from,” LaRue said, per Yahoo! Entertainment. “You don’t know if he’s hiding in the back seat, under the car or outside the studio gates waiting to follow you home.”

As she continued to describe the experience, LaRue said, “It’s a full-body takeover.”

“My eyelashes were falling out. I had a huge rash on my face and neck,” she said. “My body was terrified.”

The letters stopped for a time, but then returned without warning, she said.

“Even when he wasn’t writing, we didn’t feel safe,” LaRue said.

While she portrayed a DNA specialist on CSI: Miami, LaRue said the reality was very different.

“In real life, the FBI did not have the technology we were pretending to have on the show,” she said.

What happened to the person who stalked Eva LaRue?

A breakthrough came in 2018 when the FBI used DNA from the letters to track down LaRue’s stalker, James David Rogers, who was arrested in Ohio. Rogers pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in 2022 and was sentenced to 40 months in prison.

LaRue, who was hoping for a longer sentence, said she felt anxious after learning the stalker was released early.

“After stealing our peace and sanity for 12 years, he gets three and a half years,” she said. “And we get life. We get a lifetime sentence of fear.”

LaRue said she initially hesitated to produce the documentary. Hearing the stalker’s voice in the film brought back difficult memories.

“I heard his voice detailing all the depraved and sickening things that he had said in the letters [for the first time],” she said. “I had to turn it off. I wasn’t prepared to hear his voice making those actual threats.”

In the end, however, the documentary served as part of the healing process for LaRue and her daughter.

“Getting through the anxiety and the terror made us an incredibly strong pair,” she said.