Gwyneth Paltrow testified against a man accused of stalking her for the last 17 years in a Los Angeles court on Feb. 8. In 2001, he was found not guilty of stalking her due to insanity and he spent the following few years in a mental health facility.
Paltrow read aloud letters she received from 67-year-old Dante Michael Soiu from Columbus, Ohio during her testimony, which reportedly lasted three hours.
The mother of two told the jury she feared for the safety of her family and even bought an attack dog in order to protect herself, TMZ reports.
Soiu reportedly sent her about 70 letters, sexual objects, candy and other gifts over the nearly two decades he’s been stalking her.
Reuters reports she called the letters "religious to pornographic to threatening," and claimed he told her he would cut her skin with a scalpel to cleanse her of sin.
“You are hopelessly lost,” he wrote in 2010. “Now you must die. Yourself, must die so that Christ can have preeminence.”
Soiu plead not guilty to one felony charge of stalking.