Hilary Swank has revealed she escaped a speeding ticket recently because she had been a Good Samaritan.

Hilary explained recently that she had been learning her lines at a Los Angeles bakery/restaurant when she noticed that all the staff were busy so helped an older shopper herself. Unbeknownest to her, her actions were witnessed by a traffic police officer - who happened to pull her over for speeding on the Pacific Coast Highway a few days later: “He goes, ‘Hey, Ms. Swank… You know what, you were speeding… but I’m gonna let you off for being a Good Samaritan.’”

“I said, ‘What? What did I do?’ and he said, ‘I was at that bakery a few days ago when you got behind the counter and helped that woman, that actually happened to be the judge of Malibu.’”

“The moral of the story is, if you’re in a bakery and they’re short-handed, get behind the counter; you never know when it’s gonna help you out.”