Mindy Kaling Recalls ‘Genuinely Scary’ Moment When a Man Broke into B.J. Novak’s Car While She Was Pregnant

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Mindy Kaling opened up about a frightening experience that she went through while pregnant with her first child.“The most genuinely scary situation I’ve ever been in was when I was actually eight-and-a-half-months pregnant with her,” the actress, 43, who is the mother to daughter Katherine, 4, and son Spencer, 2, said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which aired on Monday, October 31.According to the Mindy Project alum, a dinner with B.J.

Novak took an unexpected turn when they arrived at their location. “He parked the car and we got out of the car, I noticed there was a weird kind of guy, staring at us from the parking meter,” she explained. “When we got out, he was like, ‘Hey, love you guys in The Office!'”The former costars, who met on the set of the hit NBC sitcom, returned to the car after they realized the restaurant wasn’t open.“When we walk back to the car — what we think is the car — we’re like, ‘Oh, that’s probably not it, because there’s somebody sitting in the driver’s seat,’ and we keep walking,” Kaling continued. “We go back to the car and the guy that we had talked to by the meter had gotten into B.J.’s car, was sitting in the driver’s seat and had B.J.’s laptop open and was on B.J.’s laptop.”The Massachusetts native recalled finding it “strange” that the man didn’t try to steal anything from Novak, 43.

Despite being pregnant at the time, Kaling chose to block the driver’s side door to prevent the intruder from running away.“My sense of justice was greater than my sense of wanting to live,” she joked. “Finally, B.J.

got his laptop back and all of his stuff and he nodded to me, like, ‘You can open the door and let him out.'”Kaling noted that when they let the man out, he had a shocking response.