Jake Johnson is a name you’ve heard and has a face you’ve likely seen a lot. Johnson has starred in several comedic shows and movies, most notably New Girls.
And while Jake Johnson is beloved for his comedic timing, he is going viral for a more serious topic. While a guest on the podcast, Dope As Usual, Johnson revealed the moment his mom’s intuition saved his life.
As Johnson explained, it’s a story he doesn’t tell very often because he “doesn’t get it.” Jake, a fourth grader at the time was in school, one day in May, when his mom told him he wasn’t allowed to go to class the next day.
“I was sitting next to my mom […] out of nowhere my mother turns to me and goes, ‘You’re not going to school tomorrow,’” Jake explained, admitting he was upset about the situation even though most kids would have loved a random day off from school.
As Jake continued, he and his classmates were scheduled for a field trip to Little Vietnam. “It’s just all eating candy and f****** around. I really wanted to do it.”
Jack pleaded his case to his mom, letting her know that he wouldn’t be in school anyway. The plan for the field trip was to get dropped off outside of the school, immediately get on a bus to be taken to Little Vietnam, and they wouldn’t be back until the school day was over at 3 o’clock.
“You’re not in the school at all?” his mom has him again before thinking for a long time, she ultimately told Jake he could go on the trip. That’s when tragedy struck.
“The next day, this is a true story, May 20, 1988, a woman walks into my elementary school through the door that my class was in. I used to get in a lot of trouble as a kid and I used to always talk. So the teacher pushed me in the far right corner, so I sat away from the other kids. So I was right by the door.”
“A woman walked into the school wearing a robe and nothing underneath. I know me, I wouldn’t have commented, would have said something. I would have tried to show off, I would have tried to get laughs, there is no question. The room was empty, she walked through, walked down the hall, walked into another room, shot seven kids, killed one of them.”
ABC 7 detailed the horrific events that took place at the Winnetka school that day. As it was reported, “Laurie Dann walked into a second-grade classroom on May 20, 1988, and told the students she was there to teach them about guns,” before she opened fire on the classroom.
“The shocking school shooting was the culmination of several days of bizarre and violent behavior from a woman who was known to suffer from mental illness,” ABC 7 continued in their report. More chaos ensued with Dann reportedly setting several other buildings and homes on fire before she took a family hostage. She took her own life in one of the bedrooms of the home after police surrounded it.
Jake admits to this day, he asks his mom about that moment a lot. And although she admits she can’t explain it, telling him, “I don’t know Jake, I just had a feeling in my gut, ‘Kid goes to school, you’re never going to see him again.’”
“What is that?” Jake Johnson asked the hosts.
A mother’s intuition is truly incredible.
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