Sandra Bullock seeks restraining order against stalker

By Andy Goldberg

Los Angeles (dpa) – A judge in Los Angeles granted Sandra Bullock

a temporary restraining order Monday against a man accused of

stalking the Oscar-winning actress since 2003.

Thomas James Weldon, 41, was first ordered to stay away from the

45-year-old actress in 2003, but that order expired in 2009. He

showed up at a hospital last month in Wyoming suffering from

exhaustion and told staff that he had driven cross-country to see

Bullock at a home she keeps in the state.

“His preoccupation with Ms Bullock is obvious,” Dr Jiri Danczik, a

psychiatrist, wrote in a sworn declaration.

The restraining order seeks to block Weldon from trying to contact

Bullock at any of her homes and any of her movie sets. It also seeks

to protect her 7-month-old son Louis Bardo Bullock, whom the actress

is in the process of adopting. A hearing on a permanent restraining

order is set for August 6.