Jackson William Leslie Jordan, the man who for the past two
years has been terrifying Uma Thurman’s family with letters, e-mails containing
threats of suicide, wanted to set something straight Friday when he took the
stand in a Manhattan
courtroom. The 37-year-old man said that he never intended to scare the actress
nor her family. With all his actions Jordan wanted only to obtain an
encounter with the 38-year-old Thurman. Further on, the man admitted that he
may have over reacted with some of the notes that he left to the actress.
When saying this, the man accused of talking and aggravated
harassment of the actress referred mostly to a card he delivered to Uma’s movie
trailer that featured a drawing of an open grave, a headstone and a man
standing on a razor blade, and the statement, "My hands should be on your
body at all times." Jackson
explained that the card was supposed to amuse the actress rather than to scare
her. "It was a clumsy and poor way of expressing my emotions for
her."
The former mental patient appears to be kind of clumsy when
it comes to women. Through his diary the court learned that Jordan never
had a girlfriend as he was to shy to ask a woman out. "In my memory, I
have never asked a woman on a date," he wrote in his diary.
The diary was like an enormous letter to the actress in
which he revealed his infinite love for her in a quite flowery writing and in
which he described the actress as his “sweetheart” or his “baby.” The court
drew the attention on a specific issue included in the diary: the fact that Jordan drove for three days from California to New
York in order to meet Thurman, but he ended
disappointed by the fact that the actress turned out to have a new boyfriend. Another
proof of his desperate desire to encounter with Uma was the fact that he spent
days to find her house in Greenwich Village with
the help of only one photo.
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