Jack Johnson, likely looking out the window hoping his stalker isn’t looking in. Image: Screenshot
Although most people probably know Jack Johnson for his songs that sound like palm trees swaying in the wind, the surfing community knows that Jack Johnson is a surfer’s surfer. But to the wider world, he’s a megastar, sitting on stages and singing about “bubbly toes” and being “better together.” And, like any megastar, Jack Johnson has mega-fans, some of whom take things a little too far. And, according to TMZ, Johnson recently was granted a restraining order against one of them.
The gossip rag reported that Johnson says that the woman has followed him to multiple shows, buying VIP packages in order to get closer to him. Things came to a head in Texas near the end of August when the woman confronted him at his hotel. Johnson called the police, then removed himself from the situation until they arrived on scene. Once there, they detained her.
Johnson, as you’d imagine, is relatively easy to track down. It’s hard to sell concert tickets if no one’s aware of where said concert is. A judge signed off on a temporary restraining order for Johnson, his wife, and their son.
It’s not the first time someone in the surfing world has been the victim of a stalker. In 2020, a 38-year-old woman was accused of stalking Mick Fanning. After writing him letters with strange accusations of pedophilia and confessions of love, she broke into his Gold Coast home on February 2 of that year.
