It was a night out that Amie Harwick was looking forward to. The sex therapist, 38, had been invited to an adult industry awards show at the JW Marriott in Los Angeles and was excited about taking photos on the red carpet.

“She was gorgeous,” says friend Hernando Chaves, a fellow L.A. sex therapist, who attended the Jan. 16 event with her. “She was so thrilled to be on the red carpet.”

But then, Chaves said, Harwick, the ex-fiancée of Price Is Right host Drew Carey, had a chance encounter with her ex-boyfriend Gareth Pursehouse, who was there to take photographs of the event.