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Christina Storm shakes hijackers
26/11/2007 07:40 - (SA)
Carryn-Ann Nel, Beeld
Johannesburg - Minutes after model and actress Christina Storm had taken part in the broadcast of reality show Striptease, a man held a firearm to her head at a traffic light in Newtown, Johannesburg.
Without thinking, the star who also will appear in Egoli soon, squeezed between a vehicle and a motorcycle and drove through three red traffic lights to outrun the would-be hijackers.
Storm, who took part in the final broadcast of DStv's Striptease, and will soon play the part of Bienkie in M-Net's popular soapie, Egoli, spoke about her experience on Sunday, a few days after her narrow escape.
She said she left M-Net's head office at 20:30 in her Audi A4 one evening last week.
"I asked a colleague, Henry Meyer, to drive with me, as it was already dark.
"We took a different route from the usual one. I don't know the name of that intersection, because I don't always go that way.
Raced through red light
"I reduced speed when we got to the traffic light, where I was behind Henry, who was on his motorbike."
A man in a neon-coloured jacket, like the ones car guards wear, started whistling loudly on Christina's left. When she looked up, four or five men were walking towards her.
"When I looked to my right, a man was standing at my window with a firearm in his hand. He looked as if he was high or something.
"Without thinking about it, I raced away through the red light. I squeezed past Henry's motorbike and the other vehicle, which was on my right. I don't know how I managed that.
"I was so hysterical that I raced through three red traffic lights," she said.
Has been robbed before
She said the men, whom she suspected to be part of a group, had approached her vehicle "aggressively".
"I'll never forget the face of the man on my right! I am angry.
"How dare they think they can do something like that, that my daughter (three-year-old Ruby) should grow up without a mother?" she asked angrily.
"I've been robbed before, but have never had a firearm in my face."
- Beeld
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South Africa
