Top Gun actress Kelly McGillis 'attacked in her North Carolina home'

She shared details of the alleged attack on her Facebook page

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A woman was arrested after a reported attack on actress Kelly McGillis in her North Carolina home.

McGillis - perhaps best known for her role alongside Tom Cruise in the 1986 film Top Gun - said when she arrived home on the evening of 17 June, her accused attacker had been waiting for her inside the house. A little girl had been with the woman, according to the actress.

“[The woman] ran out after me and began punching and scratching my trying to grab the phone out of my hand,” McGillis wrote on her Facebook page. “I began screaming as loud as I could hoping someone somewhere might hear me.”

According to her account, the woman, identified by Henderson County Sheriff’s deputies as Laurence Marie Dorn, accused McGillis of stalking her on Twitter before she began her attack.

“I got worried that there may be someone else in the house with house with her,” McGillis recounted. “We have quite a few guns and lots of ammo and that's when I started to panic. Thinking that if they have one of them I could be shot.”

The actress ran outside of her house and made multiple attempts to call 911 while being attacks.

She was ultimately able to escape in her vehicle, flag down a passerby driver, and phone emergency dispatchers.

Dorn was arrested and charged with second-degree burglary, misdemeanor larceny, misdemeanor stalking, assault and battery, and interfering with emergency struggle, according to ABC affiliate WLOS. She was held on $60,000 (£40,260) bail.

McGillis ended her account of the evening’s attack with a light-hearted detail from the ordeal.

“On a lighter note...my cell phone was thrown in the street and run over by my pick up [truck]. Thanks to the Otter case it still is in good shape,” she said. “Also I have RayBan glasses frames and the were ripped from my face and stomped on I don't know how many times. They are still wearable.

“It always a good day when you can find the positive in a negative situation.”