Posted on Nov 11, 2026 UTC

Dustin Hoffman says he once found himself face-to-face with the barrel of a gun after an angry husband caught the actor sleeping with his wife.

The Oscar winner, 89, recalled the terrifying incident from his youth during Monday’s episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast. Hoffman appeared on the podcast to promote his new memoir, Look at Me, released on Nov. 10.

“She thought that once her husband went to sleep, that he stayed asleep. I was invited to come over after he went to sleep,” he shared. “There we are having a festival of sorts and he walked in with a gun. He pointed [it] at me and I remember, he said, ‘Get out, get out.’”

Hoffman said the tense encounter made him realize that his life was totally in the hands of the woman’s husband at that moment.

“When you have a gun pointed at you, first of all, that hole is much bigger than the actual hole,” he continued. “You realize how, any second, any second he’s going to pull that trigger.…