Former "Dancing with the Stars" co-host Samantha Harris has experienced her share of frightening moments throughout her life.From multiple battles with breast cancer to a terrifying on-set mishap, she's learned to roll with the unexpected.
One of those close calls even ended with Tom Cruise coming to her rescue.In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the former "Entertainment Tonight" correspondent, 52, looked back on one of the most memorable celebrity interviews of her career — an adrenaline-filled promotional shoot in Seville, Spain, where Cruise quite literally saved her from an on-set injury."I've told my kids from the moment they were born… do not ride on a motorcycle," Harris said before detailing the event.BEAU BRIDGES SAYS TOM CRUISE ‘GETS BETTER WITH AGE’ AS ‘TOP GUN' STAR KEEPS DEFYING HOLLYWOOD ODDSFormer "Dancing with the Stars" co-host Samantha Harris once got on the back of a motorcycle with Tom Cruise.(Getty Images)"It was a closed course with like 20 different cameras set up and fans for the movie promotion standing around," Harris — who was working for "ET" at the time — continued.
"We weren't even supposed to ride on the motorcycle.We were supposed to talk to him, do an interview and get into a chase car with a stunt driver and then chase him on his motorcycle.
But I was like, 'Tom ...can I just sit on the Ducati?'"Harris said Cruise — who was promoting the 2010 movie "Knight and Day" at the time — happily agreed and encouraged her to "come on over."Cruise is notorious for conducting his own stunts on and off set. (Getty Images)"So we go over there, and he goes, 'Well, why don't you go ahead and hop on?' Well, let me tell you, I've only ridden horses.
I've never ridden motorcycles.Now, if you know the difference with a horse, you put your left foot in the stirrup on the left side, and you swing your leg around, and you get on, so that's what I'm thinking I do.""And I go to get on, and this Ducati, slow motion, as ...