Last month, we reported that former “Three’s Company” star Suzanne Somers had a truly shocking and terrifying experience when a naked home intruder barged into her Palm Springs, California home while she was participating in a Facebook Live stream with fans. Now, the 74 year-old is opening up about the harrowing experience, and revealing how she stayed so calm during it.

Somers was showing off her makeup products to fans when she asked her husband of 44 years, Alan Hamel, “Is somebody here? I just heard a person.”

Though Hamel brushed it off saying it had to be nothing, Somers was emphatic, saying she heard “a voice.” When the man walked in the room, Somers assumed it was a dinner guest who had arrived early for a gathering that she was holding later on, but then she realized the man was a stranger who was barely wearing any clothing.

“I’m talking to the audience and all of a sudden, I hear my dinner guest coming from the left over here,” Somers recalled while appearing on Heather Dubrow’s World podcast on PodcastOne. “I felt, well, they’re like an hour and a half early. So I say to them because I can’t see them because it’s dark, ‘Hi come on in.’’

As the man got closer, Somers asked, “Whoa, who are you?”

“Total stranger in my house,” she recounted. “Luckily for him, he was essentially naked. So I could see he wasn’t carrying a weapon. He had a little bikini something and flip-flops. I live in the mountains. How did you get there? I don’t know. He didn’t know how he got there. I asked him his name. He told me his name. The guy’s clearly high. And anybody high hiking in [the] pitch black freezing cold – I had on a black turtleneck dress – there’s something wrong with them.”

Though the experience was a scary one, Somers said she felt prepared for it after growing up with a violent, alcoholic father.

“We spent more nights hiding in a locked closet than sleeping in our own bed,” she confessed. “And I was the kid in the family at five years old who thought straight, who got us in the closet, who didn’t fall apart, who kept everybody quiet. I handled it. I handled it because I learned how to operate in a crisis.”

“So when this intruder showed up the other night and he’s naked, he’s clearly high and probably dangerous because nothing about him being there is right, that instinct I got in my childhood kicked in and I became very calm,” Somers continued. “And I said, ‘You have to leave.’”

Somers also explained that she and her husband had attended “gun classes” prior to the encounter.

“My husband had guns all his life,” she said. “But I didn’t. I happen to know now that I prefer a revolver to a semiautomatic because for women, the revolvers are an easier gun to manage. But I knew that [Alan] was there. My husband was going to protect us. So that probably was in the back of my mind. But he walked him out. Treated him with great respect, drove him down the hill in the golf cart. Put him out in front of the gate.”

Somers went on to say that Hamel had his gun when he escorted the man off their property along with someone else accompanying them.

“When he was out there, one of my fans had called the police,” said Somers. “And so the police were waiting out front for them.”

Somers had cut her show short to call the police, only to find out that her fans had her back all along, and had already alerted the authorities.

“I had to [still] get my wits about me,” she said. “But anyway, if you’re ever in a crisis, you want to be around me.”