'You shouldn't be here': Suzanne Somers' Facebook Live interrupted by home intruder

Actress Suzanne Somers had a most unusual encounter Friday evening: while livestreaming from her iconic Palm Springs, California, home, she was interrupted by an intruder who suddenly walked into the house.

No one was hurt in the incident and the man, who Somers briefly spoke with, left after he was informed he had entered a private residence. 

The encounter, which lasted about four minutes, was captured toward the end of Somers' 49-minute broadcast.

In the video, Somers begins to talk about how she applies her favorite lipstick, when she abruptly stops.

“Is somebody here?” she asks her husband Alan Hamel, a former talk show host and television producer.

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Hamel, who joined Somers on camera early in the livestream, has stepped out of the picture but is still nearby as the two have continued to talk during the broadcast.

“I just heard a person,” Somers says as she looks around.

“Really?” Hamel responds.

Another man's voice is then heard off-camera saying, “I’m here. Hi!”

Somers, 74, looks to the side then calmly tells the man, “Come here.”  The man who sounds as if he has stepped closer, apologizes and says he’s terrified because ghosts were following him. 

Somers asks the man his name. He says he is Aaron Carpenter. She then asks where he came from and he explains that a friend gave him access "to the hill." He says he just started walking.

“OK, you shouldn’t be here,” Somers says. “Yeah, this is our house,” says Hamel, 84.

Despite their surprise, Somers and Hamel remain calm throughout the ordeal.

“You don’t scare me,” Somers says to the man, “but you shouldn’t be here.”

Somers quickly looks into the camera, which is still rolling,  and widens her eyes in disbelief.

“I’m not a scary person whatsoever,” the intruder says as Somers looks his way. 

“I know, but I’m not used to people being on our property,” Somers responds as she points in the direction of the camera, “and we’re doing a show right now.”

Somers again asks how the man found his way onto the property and he says he was hiking on a trail along the mountain above the home and walked down.

He then says he has a gift for Somers, who says she doesn’t want anything. 

Hamel crosses into camera range as he walks through the background of the broadcast in order to show the man out. 

Not missing a beat, Somers' comedic timing kicks into gear. She quickly turns her head and stares wide-eyed into the camera, wordlessly appearing to question the oddness of what just happened.

She looks again in the direction of the intruder, as Hamel offers to show the man how to navigate his way off the property in the dark, and then turns back to the camera, leans forward and once more widens her eyes.

By this point some others off-camera begin to laugh.

“I’m sorry,” Somers says into the camera. “I’m as shocked as you all are. I’ve never had anybody just walk up onto my property, and he acted like it was all OK. It’s not OK.”

Palm Springs police Lt. Frank Browning said Saturday that no report had been filed about the incident. The department, however, is aware of Somers' Facebook post, he added.

Somers and Hamel are among the most well-known couples in the Coachella Valley, having lived in Palm Springs for decades.

The Desert Sun, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported in Feb. 2019 that Somers and Hamel planned to move from their much larger, longtime home into a much smaller $2.35 million hillside home near Bob Hope's old estate in the Southridge neighborhood.

The second home is located in a gated community, with round-the-clock security, just a stone's throw from their 28-acre compound in the Mesa neighborhood.

Having lived there for more than 40 years, it is where Somers and Hamel have entertained other celebrities including Barry Manilow and Kathy Griffin, as well as politicians and international cutting-edge doctors who contributed to Somers' best-selling books on alternative medicine.

In 2019, Somers told The Desert Sun they bought the smaller house because, "it's time to downsize."