Pavan
04-14-2001, 11:29 AM
'Diff'rent Strokes' Star Saves Life
Sat, Apr 14, 2001 10:25 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - For once, Todd Bridges knew the right strokes.
The oft-troubled actor, who played Willis on "Diff’rent Strokes," saved the life of a paraplegic woman whose wheelchair rolled into a lake Friday (April 13), the AP reports.
Stella Kline said her electric wheelchair lurched into the Balboa Park Lake in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley on Thursday (April 12) after her fishing line caught on the chair's controls. When it tipped over in 3 feet of water, she was trapped underneath.
Bridges, whose run-ins with the law made him a tabloid favorite in the mid-'80s and '90s, was fishing a few feet away with his brother James, 40. Both jumped in to help.
"I was thanking God that he was there," said Kline, 50. "And you know, everybody's been saying nothing but bad stuff about Todd Bridges on the news and in the papers ... He has a heart of gold." The 35-year-old actor was nonchalant. "We felt God put us there at the right time to save this lady's life, because there was no one else around," he said.
Sat, Apr 14, 2001 10:25 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - For once, Todd Bridges knew the right strokes.
The oft-troubled actor, who played Willis on "Diff’rent Strokes," saved the life of a paraplegic woman whose wheelchair rolled into a lake Friday (April 13), the AP reports.
Stella Kline said her electric wheelchair lurched into the Balboa Park Lake in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley on Thursday (April 12) after her fishing line caught on the chair's controls. When it tipped over in 3 feet of water, she was trapped underneath.
Bridges, whose run-ins with the law made him a tabloid favorite in the mid-'80s and '90s, was fishing a few feet away with his brother James, 40. Both jumped in to help.
"I was thanking God that he was there," said Kline, 50. "And you know, everybody's been saying nothing but bad stuff about Todd Bridges on the news and in the papers ... He has a heart of gold." The 35-year-old actor was nonchalant. "We felt God put us there at the right time to save this lady's life, because there was no one else around," he said.