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Eva LaRue and Kaya McKenna Callahan Open Up About Surviving and Living with 12 Years of Terror at ‘My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story’ Screening (Exclusive)
If you thought you knew everything about actress, Eva LaRue and her daughter Kaya McKenna Callahan’s real-life horror story of being stalked for 12 years by a then unknown man who sent and signed letters to them with the pseudonym, Freddy Krueger, you will think again after watching the upcoming two-part documentary, My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, set to premiere next Thursday, November 13th on Paramount +.
Michael Fairman TV attended an exclusive screening of the documentary and a Q&A featuring Eva and Kaya earlier this week. We can tell you (and we won’t spoil it), but how they were able to track down their stalker, Ohio man, James David Rogers, and the groundbreaking technology from former FBI special agent Stephen Busch and former FBI attorney Steve Kramer that helped break the case is something that really keeps you glued to your seats, not to mention the perilous circumstances that the women’s stalker put them through for years that leaves you with a knot in your stomach.
As many know, Daytime Emmy-winner Ev LaRue (All My Children, CSI: Miami, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless) and her daughter, Kaya McKenna Callahan, from Eva’s marriage to the late John Callahan (ex-All My Children and Santa Barbara), were terrorized from 2007-2019, via letters that contained graphic threats of torture, rape, dismemberment, and death. The stalking escalated when Rogers began contacting Kaya’s school in the fall of 2019, claiming to be her father, and later leaving a voicemail threatening to harm her. The two-part documentary offers an intimate, unsettling look at Eva and Kaya’s case. More than a survival story, it’s a testament to resilience and a message of hope for others living with fear.
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After capturing Rogers in 2022, he pleaded guilty to two counts of mailing threatening communications, one count of threats by interstate communications, and two counts of stalking, and was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison, but now in 2025, he served his time and has since been released.
The post-screening Q&A was led See It Now Studios President Susan Zirinsky. See It Now Studios develops and produces original documentaries and docuseries for Paramount+, CBS, Paramount Global’s television networks, international distributors, and third-party platforms. Zirinksy asked Eva and Kaya pointed and important questions about stalking, their lives now, and their experience reliving their terror during the making of the documentary and more.
WHEN NO ONE TAKES YOU SERIOUSLY
Eva LaRue shared, “The worst thing about stalking is that it’s this crime-less crime. The crime hasn’t happened yet. What I think we both realized as we were shooting the documentary was that so many of our family members and our closest friends had no idea what the whole story was, because we would tell people about the ‘jump scare’ moments over those years. But when you continue talking about something that hasn’t happened yet, you start to feel like you’re the girl who cried wolf. I think it also happens with law enforcement of how serious are they’re supposed to take it because nothing’s happened yet. He’s threatening, and threatening, and threatening, and nothing. Big plot twist, we’re alive. I think with law enforcement, they’re like, ‘Okay, well, nobody beat you up. Nobody raped you. Nobody broke into your house. Nobody touched you yet. So call us when it does, because no one’s broken a law yet.”
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Kaya McKenna Callahan added, “You feel like you’re crying wolf the amount of times you tell it. How many times do you want to go at Christmas and Thanksgiving, and to family barbecues, and keep bringing it up and keep talking,and talking, talking, about it.” (Pictured above: Stephen Busch, Kaya McKenna Callahan, Eva LaRue, and Steve Kramer )
A LIFE SENTENCE FOR VICTIMS
With their stalker now out of prison, and who, at one point was living in Los Angeles following being a free man, and with the danger that it posed to Eva and Kaya, the FBI forced him back to Ohio. Nevertheless, Kaya said what he perpetrated on her and her mother she will never be able to fully shake.
“It almost feels a part of me, unfortunately, and because of what I’ve gone through and because of the panic of it, I still deal with my own anxiety,” admits Callahan. “During the time that he was away, was the first time I felt like I could breathe. I was in college, and I felt like I could be like every other kid. I could post on Instagram publicly. You could see where I went to college and I could be proud of posting my friends and tagging them and being a normal kid. I don’t want to live in fear. I don’t want to choose fear as I have in the past, but it definitely will always be a looming dark shadow in my life.”
Eva added, “I don’t think there’s another way to go back to the innocence of before when you innocently post, and you innocently walk through life. I don’t think we’ll ever have that back. So, he got three and a half years. We got a life sentence. That’s what feels unjust about it. I don’t think we are fearful. I think we are fearless.”
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During the filming of the documentary, Eva and Kaya were interviewed separately with each recounting their stories of being terrorized. It turned out to be cathartic for them both. For the first time, they could reveal their harrowing journey fully.
“We had our therapist on speed dial the entire week,” recounted Kaya. “It was incredibly healing. That was the first time I had retold every emotion, every conscious thought, every memory beginning to end. And really being able to release it in its entirety was incredibly healing.”
THE STARTLING TRUTH
In the end, Eva, who has become a wealth of knowledge on the subject of stalking, revealed a startling fact to the screening audience and how there is so much more to do by law enforcement and legislature. “The only statistic there is right now is that of all the women that are murdered in the United States every year, 86% of those women were stalked first and 13.5 million people a year only in the United States are stocked every year, men, women, and children.”
“That’s an insane number and an insane statistic to have no real legislation around it,” explained LaRue. “We already know that it’s a mental health issue, and that it’s not going to get better. You’re not going to be an obsessive stalker, then next year you’re like, ‘Oh, I am not obsessive anymore. I’m good.’ You’re just going to change states, change partners, or escalate to ‘Golden State Killer’ level, where he was a cop, a peeping tom, then a ransacker, then a rapist, and then a murderer.”
You catch the trailer for My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story below from executive producers Susan Zirinsky and Terence Wrong for See It Now Studios, and Andrea Gabourie, Mitchell Gabourie and Eva LaRue for Forte Entertainment.
Now let us know, what do you think about the remarks and comments shared by Eva and Kaya on constantly living in fear of their own lives, and how it completely consumes you, and then still struggling with the remnants of the terror years later?
We urge everyone to not-miss this very important documentary when it bows on November 13. Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
Alan Dysert, who played Sean Cudahy on ABC’s All My Children has died. He was 75-years-old. The news of his passing came from his wife Michele who shared via a Facebook post that Dysert died back on October 23.
“My heart is broken as I share that my beloved husband, Alan, passed away on October 23, 2026. While I am struggling to imagine life without him, I am forever grateful to have experienced what so many people spend their lives searching for — the love of a lifetime,” Michele expressed.
While a cause of death was not made public at this time, Michele admitted that Alan, “faced more than his share of health challenges over the years, yet he continued to approach life with determination, humor, and gratitude.”
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Dysert wrote about his battle with a rare, aggressive and incurable cancer in his 2023 autobiography, Lights, Camera, Cancer! He spoke of having undergone four major cancer-related surgeries, and many rounds of chemotherapy and CT scans.
SEAN CUDAHY WAS ‘BAD GUY’ PERSONFIED
On All My Children, Dysert played Sean Cudahy, the con man villain to his brother, good guy, Tom Cudahy played by Richard Shoberg. Dysert played the role between 1980 and 1990 returning for multiple story arcs, which included being revealed to be the murderer of Sybil Thorne. He was also involved in several affairs including with the impressionable Devon McFadden (Tricia Pursley).
THE LIVES HE TOUCHED
Alan’s longtime agent Melinda Eisnagule told PEOPLE his death is a “loss to our community and to the acting community at large. He touched so many lives and made the industry and the world a better place every day with his positive energy and kindness.”
Dysert leaves behind his wife, Michele and his two sons Cody and Cooper and will be remembered by those who knew him for a career that spanned the theatre, film, TV and performance coaching, and of course being a part of the legacy of All My Children.
Share your remembrances and condolences on the passing of Alan Dysert, All My Children’s Sean Cudahy, via the comment section below.
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Mark Consuelos Celebrates Kelly Ripa’s 56th Birthday on ‘Live,’ But Remember When Wendy Williams Outed the Couple as Married Before Anyone at ‘All My Children’ Knew?
On the Friday, October 2 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the morning talk show marked the 56th birthday of Kelly Ripa (ex-Hayley Vaughan Santos, All My Children).
During the opening segment, Mark Consuelos (ex-Mateo Santos, All My Children) humorously comparing his wife to both Gandhi and Groucho Marx, reflecting on both her comedic ability and peaceful ways.
Later, they went on to discuss the origins of her name and the most popular picks to name babies back in the year she was born, 1970. They were Kimberly, Lisa, and Jennifer for girls and Michael, David, and James for the boys.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Ripa recalled that she learned she was almost named Kim. However, their neighbors at the time had two daughters Kelly and Kim, which is what her parents wanted to call them, but they settled on Kelly and and her younger sister, Linda.
At the conclusion of the episode, Mark rolled out a huge cake for his wife. It was, “Happy birthday from all of us here at Live and at home.” Next, he cut the cake, and Ripa grabbed his face and gave him a “thank you” kiss.
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KELLY AND MARK TRIED TO KEEP THEIR VEGAS WEDDING ON THE DOWN LOW
All of this brings back memories of how Kelly and Mark’s Las Vegas wedding ceremony went public in 1996 while the two were still on All My Children playing Mateo Santos and Hayley Vaughan. In essence, they were outed by then radio host Wendy Williams! They discussed it on the talk show back in 2024.
In fact, the duo hid their marriage from their All My Children castmates for months, until they found out Williams got wind of the nuptials and spread the intel on the airwaves.
The two recalled their secret wedding on a 2024 episode of Live! “We’d eloped. It’d been a few months at that point. We’d been married for three months, nobody at All My Children knew we were even dating, much less married to each other. We’re brushing our teeth and we’ve got Wendy Williams’ radio show on. We’re listening, and she’s like, ‘I’ve got celebrity dish!”
EYEWITNESS
Next Ripa continued, “The celebrities,’ I guess they had a broad use of the term back then, was the fact that ‘two soap stars from All My Children, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos eloped in Las Vegas.’ There was this eyewitness that worked in the Clark County courthouse that said we eloped, and the news broke, and we had to tell everybody we were married.”
Live With Kelly and Mark airs weekdays in syndication. Check your local listings for times in your area.
Share your birthday wishes for Kelly in the comment section, and let us know your thoughts on how Wendy Williams broadcast the news, unbeknownst to the All My Children newlyweds, that they tied the knot in Vegas? Check out Mark and the ‘Live’ studio audience singing ‘happy birthday’ to Kelly in the post below.
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‘All My Children’ Movie Writers for Lifetime Revealed: Ron Carlivati, Jamey Giddens and Leo Richardson
This week began and as reported with a spotlight article on Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos and how their production entity, Milojo, has been teeing up the All My Children reboot with Lifetime.
The L.A. Times featured the married couple, co-hosts of Live with Kelly and Mark, and former All My Children cast members (where they met and fell in love) about their plans to bring two All My Children movies to Lifetime and how they are working with the Agnes Nixon estate to make it come to fruition,
On Wednesday, it was revealed by Daytime Confidential, that All My Children reboot producer, Andrew Stearn handpicked none other than Ron Carlivati (ex-head writer, One Life to Live, General Hospital and Days of our Lives) and Jamey Giddens (who is the new co-head writer of The Young and the Restless, following his tenures on the writing teams of Beyond the Gates and Days of Our Lives), as the two scribes who will bring the first of two of Kelly and Mark’s All My Children movies to the page.
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RON CARLIVATI AND JAMEY GIDDENS CONFIRM THEIR BOARDING THE ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIE PROJECT
The second installment is said to be written by primetime writer Leo Richardson whose credits include: Star, Katy Keene and more recently the Penn Badgley (ex-Phillip Chancellor IV, The Young and the Restless) starring series, You.
Richardson also wrote for three years on the U.K.’s long-running soap, EastEnders. All My Children revival fans will recall Richardson’s name was attached as the writer for the first incarnation of the All My Children movies, entitled, Pine Valley.
Ron Carlivati took to X and confirmed he is indeed boarding the All My Children movie project. Carlivati shared, “So excited to share this news! Thanks to Andrew Stearn, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Albert Bianchini and the Agnes Nixon estate for entrusting Jamey Giddens and me with the first of two planned All My Children movies for Lifetime! Stay tuned!”
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Jamey Giddens confirmed DC’s announcement by taking to his account on X and expressing, “I’ve been booked and busy in 2026. Thanks to Andrew Stearn, the Agnes Nixon estate, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos for entrusting Ron Carlivati, and me with the first of two planned All My Children movies for Lifetime!”
Some fans seemed to question how Giddens could be writing for the first All My Children movie at Lifetime, when he is the new co-head writer at The Young and the Restless with Dan O’Connor. Jamey answered that head on via X and explained, “We turned in our All My Children script months ago. My sole focus as of this past Monday, is Genoa City, Wisconsin! #YR”
ERICA KANE, MARIA SANTOS AND HAYLEY AND MATEO SANTOS TO APPEAR IN THE ALL MY CHILDREN MOVIE REVIVAL?
In the planned stories, Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane and Eva LaRue’s Maria Santos will be two characters whose lives we will get to see for the first time since the series was canceled by ABC back in 2011 after 41 years on the air. As well, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos confirmed they will make brief appearances on-screen; one could assume as Hayley and Mateo Santos.
“It’d be wonderful to give the fans something that they’ve been yearning for so many years,” shared Mark Consuelos to the LA Times. “All My Children gave me my family. I met my wife there. It gave me my start in the business. It gave us so much. It would be a dream to be able to give back.”
So, what do you think of Ron Carlivati and Jamey Giddens getting nod to write the All My Children movie #1 script and Leo Richardson #2? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
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