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Wire actor james ransone He is being remembered for taking heroic action to save a woman from sexual assault years ago.
Ransone, best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka on the hit crime drama, died by suicide last week. He was 46 years old.
Following his tragic and untimely death, a woman named Molly Watts paid tribute to him on social media.
“I usually stay private but I want to say publicly that I am so grateful this man existed and don’t know if my life would have taken the same direction if he hadn’t,” she wrote alongside a photo of the actor.
Watts explained that they were once neighbors in New York City’s Chinatown – “friendly, overlapping social circles.”
“I was attacked on the threshold of our building. I screamed for help. No one came. My attacker put his hands around my neck so that I would stop making noise. I couldn’t breathe. I remember the certainty that I was going to die or be raped as I passed out.”
“PJ heard my screams and ran to help. He came running without a shirt, carrying a bat or a pipe – I’m not sure which, because I never saw him do it. He scared my attacker, who ran away. PJ chased him to the building where he ran. Because of the pursuit, police were able to identify him, a repeat sex offender,” said Watts.
“PJ saved me. I’m not sure if I would have had the same life if he hadn’t run away that night,” she continued, sharing a link gofundme A page supporting Ransone’s wife, Jamie, and their two young children.
She wrote, “What is particularly difficult for me about PJ’s passing is that he lived with that kind of violence. What I survived, he endured in a different form, at an age where there are no emotional defenses, and the self is still being formed.” “I think P.J.’s life is filled with fear because of what happened to him. This world is rarely gentle with people who are hurting, insecure, acting out.”
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In 2021, Ransone spoke publicly about being sexually abused as a child by one of his teachers. He shared the allegations on his social media account after Baltimore County Police declined to investigate and pursue charges against the teacher.
“Over the years, I’ve thought about PJs from time to time,” Watts admitted. “I wanted to reach out to him to let him know how grateful I was that he ran toward my screams. I didn’t do that. I regret that.”
Before his death, Ransone wrote a poignant reflection on fatherhood on his personal website.
“Parenthood completely broke me,” he said. “It allowed me to look at myself with a level of honesty I wanted to avoid. It pushed me to become someone my child could look up to. And with it came shame — shame I didn’t even know was still alive in me.”
Ransone was also known for his performances in horror films, including this chapter two, horrifying, horrifying 2, in the valley of violence, black phone, And black phone 2Which was his last project.