Actor Nick Pasqual Gets 32 Years to Life for Stabbing Ex

A Sentence Decades in the Making

Actor Nick Pasqual was sentenced to 32 years to life in prison on June 2 for the 2024 stabbing of his ex-girlfriend, Hollywood makeup artist Allie Shehorn.

Pasqual, who appeared in ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ was convicted of attempted murder, first-degree residential burglary with a person present, and injuring a domestic partner. The sentence was handed down at the San Fernando Courthouse, according to CBS Los Angeles and ABC7. The verdict had come down weeks earlier, with the June hearing fixing the time he will serve.

Who Allie Shehorn Is

Shehorn is a working Hollywood makeup artist who met Pasqual on the set of the film ‘Rebel Moon,’ where he worked as a background actor and she handled makeup. What began as a relationship between two people in the film industry ended in an attack that nearly killed her.

She was stabbed more than 20 times during a break-in at her Sunland home. Her injuries were so severe that, according to court testimony reported by CBS Los Angeles, she was clinically dead twice before surviving emergency surgery. That she lived at all was, in the words of the medical accounts presented at trial, far from certain.

Facing Him in Court

Appearing with visible scars on her neck and arms, Shehorn delivered a victim impact statement at the sentencing hearing. She described the night of the attack in detail, recounting how she tried to put locked doors between herself and the man forcing his way in.

‘I locked the door and he just started punching holes in that door and broke that open, and I just ran into the bathroom because I thought there’s another lock on that door,’ she told the court, according to Deadline.

She also described lying wounded and wondering whether she would survive. ‘When I was lying on the floor in a pool of my own blood, I remembered wondering if this was how my life was going to end,’ she said. ‘I was terrified, I was in pain.’

What She Carries Now

Shehorn spoke directly to the man she had once trusted. ‘You, who I had once trusted, decided my life was something that you could take away,’ she told him in court.

She survived, but she told the court she was left with permanent injuries, lasting emotional trauma, and mounting medical bills. The physical scars were visible in the courtroom; the financial and emotional costs she described in her own words. Her decision to take the stand turned a sentencing hearing into something more direct - a survivor naming what was done to her, in front of the person who did it.

Where the Case Stands

With the sentence handed down, the criminal case reaches its conclusion. Pasqual faces a minimum of 32 years before any possibility of parole, a term that reflects the multiple felony counts the jury returned, including the burglary and domestic-injury charges that accompanied the attempted murder conviction.

For Shehorn, the outcome closes one chapter while the recovery continues. The case drew attention in part because of Pasqual’s screen credits, but the through-line was always the woman who lived to describe what happened. She walked into the courtroom carrying the marks of the attack and walked out having said, on the record, exactly what survival has cost her.

When the Survivor Speaks

Victim impact statements give survivors a rare formal opportunity to address the court and the person convicted of harming them. Shehorn used hers not to dwell on the verdict but to describe the night in her own words and to name the cost she will carry forward.

That she could appear at all - scars visible, voice steady enough to recount being trapped behind a breaking door - reframed the hearing. The medical accounts had established that she nearly died twice; her testimony established that she lived to hold the man responsible accountable to her face. Domestic violence advocates often note that the most powerful moment in these cases is not the sentence itself but the survivor reclaiming the narrative, and Shehorn did exactly that before the term was read into the record.

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