'90s child star recalls harrowing story of nearly being kidnapped from set

So I'm walking with my mom, and then I just remember some guy hops out of the line, and he grabs me, and grabs me up, and starts booking it. The security comes out, they wrassle him down, I just remember flying around in the air. He ended up clearly going to jail, but he had a gun. That was Growing Pains star Ashley Johnson, now 42, detailing a terrifying moment she remembers from filming the hit 90s sitcom, As a Young Child. Johnson revealed on the Weird Kids podcast that a fan wrote into Growing Pains ahead of the attempted kidnapping. The fan said they were coming to set with a gun, even threatening to murder some of the cast members. The ABC sitcom starred Alan Thicke as the patriarch of the Seaver family, and ran for seven seasons. Johnson joined the cast as the youngest daughter, Chrissy, in 1990. She was just six or seven years old at the time of the fan incident. Johnson starred alongside a young Leonardo DiCaprio, who ended up leaving the sitcom to pursue his film career. Johnson said she was so young at the time that she was most concerned about getting into trouble because one of the wardrobe department's shoes from the show fell off in the commotion. Ashley Johnson continued acting after her years on Growing Pains. She later starred in The Avengers, The Help, and joined several franchises as a voiceover actress, including The Last of Us, Recess, and Teen Titans. She doesn't let that scary childhood incident stop her from connecting with fans. She holds meet-and-greets when she attends Comic-Con events across the U.S.