Actress climbed onto her roof to hide from home intruder - VIDEO

Melora Rivera bravely crawled onto her Venice roof and had the wherewithal to take her cell phone and call police.'Once I saw him in the house, I knew that we both couldn’t be there,' Rivera told CBS LA from her Venice home.Police arrived on the scene just minutes after Rivera's frantic call as she hid beneath an eave of the roof.An area blogger snapped a photo just as the itinerant, later ID'd by police as 29-year-old Christian Hicks, lurched onto the roof behind her.It was a moment borne of nightmares. But brave Rivera kept her composure.'I knew that I didn’t want to have a confrontation with him of any sort, you know, not knowing what his intention was,' she told CBS LA.In spite of her composure, Rivera--who works in showbiz and had a small role the 2012 Whitney Houston film Sparkle--revealed that she did have at least one overarching fear as she clung to the roof.  (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az