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      • Jodie Foster admitted she was “not naturally an actor” and that the traumatic experience of a stalker coming to see her on stage, then shooting President Ronald Reagan to get her attention, is the reason she stopped performing live at 18.
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  2. Jodie Foster and the stalker who shot the president ‘to win her heart’. Forty years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan in Jodie Foster’s name. It is a testament...

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  3. Jun 23, 2024 · Jodie Foster Says Her Stalker Who Shot Reagan Kept Her From Doing Theater Ever Again: ‘I’ve Never Admitted That’. The same week, an audience member brought a gun to watch her on stage, the...

  4. Jun 24, 2024 · Jodie Foster revealed that trauma led her to shelve doing theater not long after a stalker, John Hinckley Jr., looked to impress her by attempting to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

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  5. Jun 26, 2024 · Jodie Foster and the trauma that has stopped her doing theater for 40 years. The actress has always avoided speaking out about the stalker who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981 in a bid to impress her...

  6. Aug 27, 2024 · Due to his “unsound mind,” Hinckley became increasingly preoccupied with Foster, whom he followed to New Haven, Connecticut in 1980 once she began studying at Yale.

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  7. Jun 1, 2018 · On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others in an assassination attempt he hoped would earn the affection of the Oscar-winning actress he was stalking,...

  8. Apr 2, 2014 · In the 1970s, Hinckley began stalking actress Jodie Foster. In 1981, he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan of outside a Washington, D.C. hotel.