Actress Rosamund Pike is looking back on the harrowing moment when she was allegedly robbed.
“I was on the phone to my mother [Caroline Friend], on a mobile phone walking along a road, and I was mugged,” Pike, 46, claimed during a recent appearance on the U.K.’s Magic Radio, per The Independent. “The phone was snatched, so all she heard was me scream and a thud, and the phone went dead.”
The Hallow Road star revealed that the alleged incident took place in 2006 when she was taking a walk in London.
According to Pike, “Some kid on a bicycle sped past” her to take her phone.
“[They] punched me down the side of my cheek and snatched my phone out of my hand. I’m angry,” she alleged, acknowledging her mom’s reaction. “For her, it was probably a pretty horrible 15 minutes.”
After the incident, Pike walked to a local phone to ask for help. She did not further address the situation on the radio, though she did confirm she had been the victim of another alleged robbery the following year. Pike claimed that a currently unidentified thief stole her purse and handbag at the 2007 BAFTA Awards.
“I had a fire in my apartment … and I was burgled the year before,” Pike quipped. “So I’ve got used to owning things for a little while and then tending to part with them.”
Pike’s string of self-proclaimed bad luck also extends to injuries. During the Golden Globe Awards in January 2024, she wore a “protective” Dior face mask alongside her glamorous gown.
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“On the 26th of December, my face was entirely smashed up,” she recalled to Variety on the red carpet. “Not what you want when you know you’re going to the Golden Globes on the 7th of January.”
Weeks later, the Pride & Prejudice actress told People that she was healing.
“If I showed you pictures on my phone from January the first, you would say, ‘Ahh,’” she said later in January 2024. “It is not what you want to do, smash your face up two weeks before the Golden Globes. It’s not the No. 1 preferred strategy for entering award season.”
During both interviews, Pike assured fans that she was mostly “healed.”
Elsewhere in her offscreen life, Pike is a doting mom to sons Solo and Atom, whom she shares with partner Robie Uniacke.
“Sometimes I sort of say to them, ‘Do you realize you’re probably going to be kind of looking back on photos of this summer and thinking, ‘Were we really hanging out with Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi?’” she quipped on Canada’s ETalk CTV in January 2024, referring to her Saltburn costars.
