Chris Hansen is setting the record straight with the “real” reason he had the cops called on him several years ago.
On Monday, the former To Catch a Predator host shared a nearly two-minute-long clip addressing the “infamous” 9-1-1 call made about him in 2020, which later went viral on social media.
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He began by explaining that the recording—which he said gets rediscovered and reshared “every six or eight months or so”—is from a situation that played out five years ago.
“The caller claims that I’m knocking on his door and that I’m some sort of internet stalker,” Hansen, now 65, shared before telling fans on social media “what really happened.”
“I was doing a story on a YouTube personality who, along with his spouse, was accused of exploiting some of their young followers. I wanted to ask him some questions about these accusations, so I went to Washington State [and] knocked on his door,” Hansen recalled in the Dec. 30 upload to TikTok.
The media personality went on, remembering how his production crew “stayed off of his property” and how the subject never answered the door, but that Hansen could hear him inside, and “he did, in fact, call 9-1-1 and the sheriff’s department did, in fact, show up.”
“We had a nice chat and everybody went on their way. That’s the real story, and now you know what actually happened,” Hansen shared, closing out the video with the original audio recording of the call made by the YouTuber. He never revealed his name, though fans who have kept up with Hansen over the years, know this to be the story of his series on the YouTuber known as Onision.
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♬ original sound – Chris Hansen
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As the caller reports someone who has been “stalking him online and just showed up” at his house, Hansen added the footage of himself walking up and knocking on the front door of the subject’s house.
When the operator asks if the alleged “stalker” could have any weapons, the caller tells them, “They have a bunch of camera people. Like [they’re] YouTube stalkers.”
“I didn’t see any weapons, just saw like six guys in my driveway and one of them is knocking on my door,” he added, before accusing Hansen of “yelling things at me through the door.”
When the operator asked if the caller knew who the person at his door was, he briefly paused before blurting out: “It’s Chris Hansen.”
Hansen previously teased the drama of his investigation during his 2021 true crime limited series, Onision: In Real Life, which explores the alleged predatory actions of the YouTuber in full. It is currently streaming on Discovery+ and MAX.
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