Freddie Highmore he’s not the first talk show guest to have a strange experience to recount, but he might just be the one to win. The British actor, revealed during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live that she once had to hide in a broom closet to avoid meeting a presenter.

“I try not to say his name, but this host does not like to see his guests in advance,” the actor said. “So I was backstage with some of the producers and they looked up and they saw the host at the end of the aisle and they were very, very scared.”

Highmore said the producers “grabbed me and threw me next door, which was right down the hall and it was a broom closet, a dark broom closet.”

“I was there for about a minute and it was like Secret Service agents on their phones, ‘Are we clear? Are we clear? He’s gone? Can we get him out?’ I was terrified.”

Instead, Highmore called the backstage atmosphere on Kimmel’s ABC talk show “the best” he’s ever experienced. Kimmel tried to get the actor to reveal the host’s name: “Did Kathie Lee Gifford do that to you?”, with Highmore laughingly replying, “Shut up.”