‘I Woke Up to a Man Crawling’: Kristin Cavallari Recalls Chilling Encounter with a Home Intruder

Reality star Kristin Cavallari recently revealed her frightening experience with an intruder during a family vacation in the Bahamas. The family had moved from a condo to a house during their stay, where Cavallari had her Uncommon James jewelry laid out. What happened next shocked her.

Cavallari said, “We were in a condo and then the last week or so that we were there, we switched into a house. And I had all of my Uncommon James jewelry in the closet just laid out. Our HVAC unit broke, so we had workers in our house that day and they were fixing everything.”

Cavallari was asleep next to her son Camden when she awoke to her bedroom door opening. She saw a man crawling on the floor in a ski mask and dark clothing.

Cavallari added, “I woke up to my bedroom door opening. And it woke me up because of the light from the kitchen. And I woke up to a man crawling on my bedroom floor. And I [was] so out of it ‘cause obviously I had just woken up, that I go, ’What the [expletive] are you doing?'”

Cavallari said, “And this man stands up and runs out the door and you guys, he had a ski mask on, full black arms, black pants, like the full thing, right? And then I went, ‘Oh [expletive].’ Like that was not Jay… I don’t know who that was. But because Camden was in bed with me, I didn’t yell. I didn’t scream.”

Cavallari added, “You think in those moments that that’s what you would do, but your instincts just kick in, and I honestly felt like I was in ‘Mission Impossible.'”

After the intruder fled, she tried to contact her husband, Jay Cutler. She then searched the house for her family and found Cutler with their other children.

Cavallari said, “Well, obviously, Jay didn’t respond, it’s like 1 a.m. or something. So I’m like [expletive], I have to go out into the house by myself and leave my son here in bed.”

Cavallari recalled, “I go out in the house and I don’t know where anybody is, I go look in the bedroom across the way – no one’s in there. I’m like, ‘What the [expletive].’ I go upstairs. Jay was upstairs with Jaxon and Saylor I guess, now that I think about it.”

Cavallari said, “Once I woke Jay up, then I got really nervous,” adding, “I started shaking and I was like, ‘Holy.’ I was able to process then what just happened. But until that point, I was not scared, I was really calm… again, you’re just running off of instinct.”

Cavallari said, “My kids still don’t know that story too, because again, that’s just one that I think would really scare them. That someone broke into our house, was crawling on the bedroom floor, and he was crawling on the bedroom floor going to the closet to get the jewelry. To get the Uncommon James jewelry. Long story short, he took all the cash we had in a backpack. We ended up getting it back.”

The intruder was later identified as the HVAC technician, who stole cash from their belongings. They recovered the money, but Cavallari chose not to tell her kids.