Story highlights "NCIS" co-star Pauley Perrette recounted a horrific attack on Twitter

"I was jumped by a VERY psychotic homeless man," she said

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(CNN) "NCIS" actress Pauley Perrette was attacked in front of her Hollywood home Thursday night and left "shaken and traumatized," she tweeted.

"On my street, I was jumped by a VERY psychotic homeless man," she wrote.

The man grabbed Perrette, pinned her arm, punched her in the nose and forehead and "repeatedly" told her that he was going to kill her.

"I was alone, terrified and trapped," Perrette wrote. "There was an empty garage behind me and I knew if he got me in there I was dead."

So, tonight was awful, life changing and I'm only grateful to be alive. It's here: pic.twitter.com/vXIT1pkVRc — Pauley Perrette (@PauleyP) November 13, 2015

Perrette said she prayed and tried to connect with the man. The man finally told her to "get the f*** out of here. And I did," Perrette wrote, adding that she collapsed on the sidewalk in shock.

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