CSI: Miami star Eva LaRue is opening up about her terrifying experience being stalked for more than a decade.
The 58-year-old actress visited CBS Mornings on Tuesday morning (November 11) to discuss the topic, which is the subject of her upcoming docuseries My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, premiering this week on Paramount+.
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“It was a full-body takeover. It really is an absolute rewiring of how you move through life. There’s no way to ever go back to innocence. Somebody had said to me, ‘Well, can you move on now?’ No. Your brain never goes back to not being hypervigilant,” Eva recalled.
She and her daughter Kaya McKenna Callahan, had to move several times because of James David Rogers, who sent her messages from 2007 to 2015 and then voicemails in 2019. He was eventually arrested in November 2019 and sentenced to over three years in prison in 2022.
“We had to move twice,” she revealed. “He ultimately found her high school and called the high school pretending to be her dad and told her to stand out in front of the school. He was going to pick her up.”
The constant harassment took its toll on Eva.
“My eyelashes fell out. I was broken out in hives all over. There was no place to hide because you don’t know where he could be. You really are in a prison of your own making because you are trying to be four steps ahead of what he could do, and those possibilities are endless,” she said.
My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story debuts this Thursday, November 13 on Paramount+.
Click through the gallery to see photos of Eva and her daughter Kaya at the docuseries premiere held in Los Angeles earlier this month…