Good Samaritan Jimmy Fallon Gives Woman Ride In Hamptons As Rains Hit

SOUTHAMPTON, NY — A woman taking a beach walk in Sagaponack was saved from Saturday's deluge by a surprise good Samaritan — when Jimmy Fallon pulled up in the rain and offered her a ride.

Dawn Elyse Warden, from Philadelphia, was visiting a friend in Sag Harbor and knew that both Fallon and Justin Timberlake had been seen in the area, but never thought about the possibility of running into one of them.

Until Saturday, when she was taking a "gorgeous walk on the beach" in Sagaponack.

"Knowing the rain was coming, I was well prepared with my dorky raincoat," she laughed. "I was probably the last person off the beach as the sky grew grayer and it started to spit a little bit, then started to rain a little bit more."

She was walking back to her friend's house, Warden said, when a truck pulled up.

"A guy rolled down the window and offered to give me a ride," she said. "As a woman, my mind was going, 'I'm not jumping into the car with you.' Then it hits me like a brick: 'Holy cow! That's Jimmy Fallon! Hell, yes, I'm jumping in the car!'"

She got in and told him that she was worried about her dirty sneakers in his immaculate ride.

"He introduced me to his youngest daughter," who was in the car, she said.

She never said, "You're Jimmy Fallon," and he never said, "I'm Jimmy Fallon," Warden said. "But when I was chatting with his daughter, I said, 'You're so adorable, such a cutie. It's nice to meet you. And your dad's pretty cool, too.' I also said later, 'You have two kids, right?' So he clearly knew that I knew, but I never said anything. I never asked him to take a selfie."

"I was starstruck'

Instead, Warden said she was "starstruck. I've met celebrities before but for some reason I felt nervous. I was trying to keep my cool and not say anything stupid," she laughed. "That was my whole mission. I was also horrified by how I looked, like a drowned rat, a little bit."

Warden and Fallon, she said, talked about her life in Philadelphia with five kids and how beautiful the beach had been, despite the cloudy, rainy weather.

"He's a great guy, very chill, just doing the daddy thing, running around with his daughter on a Saturday," she said.

Warden said she's had fun telling the story because Fallon was so chivalrous. "I kept thinking, 'Wow, the dude stopped.' He didn't have to stop. He was super nice."

She said she's surprised by how much media attention the incident has garnered, with an initial report on Page Six and a riff on The Morning Breath, which was "absolutely hysterical. My daughter and her fiend told me about it and I laughed so hard all night my stomach hurt. It's all so crazy!"

But in the end, Warden said she was touched by Fallon's act of kindness. "He's just a really nice guy."

Jimmy Fallon Patch file photo by Richard Lewin Professional Photography, soniboy@aol.com.

Courtesy photo of Dawn Elyse Warden.