Meryl Streep and Cher are badasses, and they’ve been friends a while. But did you know the two once saved a woman from assault?

“We walk down the street and we hear screaming,” Cher recalled on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

“We come around the corner and this gigantic man is ripping the clothes off of this girl. And Meryl starts screaming, and I start screaming, and we run towards this gigantic man and he turns and starts running towards us. Just out of — I don’t know, we split, and he ran through us. We went up to the girl and all of her clothes were torn and she was clutching her bag. So we’re putting her together and trying to get her to look a little bit like she hasn’t just been ravished, and she looks at us, and she goes, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve been saved by Meryl Streep and Cher!’”

Meryl would later recount the incident. “Someone else was being abused and I just went completely nuts and went after this man. Ask Cher — she was there. And the thug ran away, it was a miracle,” she said while speaking at the Committee to Protect Journalists awards last year.