Earlier today, we reported that the former “Three’s Company” star Suzanne Somers had been doing a makeup video on Facebook Live when an intruder burst into her home. Now, Somers has broken her silence to address what happened.

Somers, 74, told Entertainment Tonight that the incident was “just one of those freaky things.”

“This is not an easy property to get on,” she said, touting the security at her home in Palm Springs, California. “It was a very unusual circumstance.”

“He was definitely trespassing,” she added. “I was glad I reacted calmly and it turned out OK. You never know what’s going to happen in life.”

Somers stayed remarkably calm when the man came in, telling him, “You don’t scare me, but I’m not used to having people on my property and we’re doing a show.”

Somers said afterwards that she was able to stay so calm because she went into “crisis mode.”

“I am a child of an alcoholic… and when you live with violence or addiction or alcoholism of any kind, you handle it one of who ways: you either crumble and just can’t handle it, [or go into crisis mode],” she said. “When you go into crisis mode, you become very calm. You assess the situation and try to calm it all down.”

“I didn’t realize that was still a part of me,” Somers continued. “I went into that crisis mode of, ‘There’s something dangerous happening right now. I’m just going to try to stay very even and very calm.'”

As soon as Somers’ husband Alan Hamel saw the man, she said he went into “protector mode.”

“When I saw him walk behind me, I thought, ‘Yeah, Intruder Guy, you’re going to want to get out of here. You’re not going to want Bad Al,'” Somers admitted.

“My first thought was, ‘This guy needs handling,'” Hamel added. “And as I got close to him, I kind of felt sorry for him. He was very young, probably mid 20s. It was a cold night, he was stripped to the waist… I thought, ‘Where did you come from… and how come you’re not dressed?'”

Hamel thinks the man may have been a lost hiker who was delusional from dehydration.

“I suddenly realized he was not a threat at all. He actually seemed like a very nice boy… I asked him to leave, and after a couple of back and forth’s, he did leave,” Hamel recounted. “I felt sorry for him. I thought, ‘This could be my son.’ I never felt threatened at all, once I got close to him.”

“I just hope his ending is a good ending. Whatever he needs, I hope he got it,” Hamel said of the intruder. “I just felt badly for him. I realized, ‘He’s all alone, it’s dark.'”

“But don’t come back!” Somers concluded.

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