HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — He may play a bad boy on “Lost,” but Josh Holloway hasn’t forgotten the one time he felt defenseless — a 2005 home invasion robbery in Oahu while he was in bed sleeping with his wife Yessica.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — He may play a bad boy on “Lost,” but Josh Holloway hasn’t forgotten the one time he felt defenseless — a 2005 home invasion robbery in Oahu while he was in bed sleeping with his wife Yessica.
“It still gets me,” the 39-year-old actor admits in the February issue of Playboy. “The guy was a crackhead who had hit 22 people in two and a half weeks. He took an 80-year-old couple and duct-taped them up. He also attempted to murder another guy. I had a nightmare about it last night.”
The robber, who took cash and credit cards before driving off in the star’s Mercedes-Benz, was eventually captured. Last June, a judge sentenced Ruben Royce to between 13 and 30 years in prison for the crime spree, which Holloway says changed his life.
“Having a gun held to our heads when we’re naked in our bedroom at four in the morning is never going to happen to my wife and me again,” says Holloway. “I took the FBI training course. I have home protection.
“I accept that we live in a gun society, especially in America. Of course, there’s also the statistic that owning a gun increases your chances of being shot by 300 percent.
Holloway had his own trouble with the law last year, joining a string of fellow castmates who have made the police blotter in Hawaii, where the hit ABC series is filmed. Holloway’s case was a minor one, having been nabbed for speeding.
“I was going around 50 in a 35 zone, and that’s embarassing,” admits Holloway. “I should have been going faster.”
