He said they decided to participate as a way to raise awareness.

"Just knowing our clientele and knowing how they are … we knew they would do the right thing."

Among those who stepped out of her booth and into what appeared to be a bullying scene was Holli Carpenter.

She said she and her husband went to dinner and could overhear the conversation in the next booth in which two teenage girls criticized another girl.

"They ended up calling her a pig," Holli Carpenter said. "It was all I could do not to say something.

"It made me really sick to my stomach. It crossed our minds it was a show, but I thought, 'Not in Valparaiso," and not at Round the Clock.

After approaching the girls she encouraged the "victim" to leave.

When the actress left, she followed her outside to console her and share some motherly advice.

"I told her people should like you for who you are, and then the cameras came," she said.

"They asked what it felt like to be a hero ... I told them I'm not a hero, I just stepped up for someone who couldn’t find their voice."

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