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A Los Angeles judge has granted Sabrina Carpenter a restraining order against an alleged stalker after the singer described a series of frightening incidents at her home – Incidents that left them in “significant and persistent fear” for their personal safety.
In a signed affidavit obtained by ROLLING STONE, the singer describes that William Applegate had shown up at her house uninvited several times in the past few weeks, tried to break in and refused to leave when her security guards confronted him – claiming that he knew Carpenter personally and was expected. In a “deeply disturbing” incident on May 23, Applegate entered her neighbor’s property to get around her security fence, worked her way to her front door and “pushed forcefully on the door handle.” When he found the door locked, he knocked, rang the doorbell and refused to leave until the police arrived and arrested him.
“[Applegate] made up the outrageous and completely false claim that he knew me personally and that I was expecting him. “That was a blatant lie,” Carpenter wrote in her statement. She says he returned less than 24 hours later and hung around outside her house for hours. The next day, on May 25, he showed up again and parked his car in front of her house – “in what can only be described as targeted surveillance of my movements and my house.”
Judge grants request
Carpenter provided screenshots of her Ring security camera footage and requested that the restraining order be extended to two other people who live with her – including her older sister. On Friday, a judge granted the request and ordered Applegate to stay at least 300 feet away from Carpenter, her home, her car, her workplace and other residents.
“This is not the behavior of someone who happened to wander onto my property,” Carpenter, 27, wrote in her statement to the court. “This is deliberate stalking and surveillance aimed specifically at me and my home.”
In the statement, she describes Applegates’s alleged attempt to break in through her front door without her consent as one of the “most disturbing intrusions into my personal safety and privacy that I have ever experienced.” His “delusional insistence” on knowing her and being welcome reflects a “dangerous, delusional and irrational obsession.”
Hearing scheduled for June
“His pattern of stalking, trespassing and surveillance has caused me severe and lasting emotional distress, and I fear what he might do if he is not kept in check by this court,” Carpenter wrote.
A follow-up hearing to extend the approach ban is scheduled for June 17th. Applegate is due in criminal court on June 18th in connection with his trespassing arrest.
“It is my professional opinion that [Applegate] “has developed a disturbing and irrational fixation on the applicant,” LAPD Detective Peter Doomanis wrote in a statement filed with Carpenter’s application. “The pattern of his behavior, which may have begun as early as April 20, 2026, has all the hallmarks of a fixated, obsessive individual. … This progression is consistent with well-documented patterns of stalking behavior that pose a serious and escalating risk to the victim’s safety.”
No response from Applegate
A message left Monday on a number linked to Applegate initially went unanswered.