Police are on the hunt for an escaped mental patient once convicted of stalking Madonna.

Fifty-four-year-old Robert Dewey Hoskins broke out of a California mental hospital last week, and is described as "a very psychotic man when not taking his medication and has very violent tendencies," according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Hoskins served a 10-year sentence after a jury convicted him of stalking and threatening to slit the singer's throat. During the trial, Madonna revealed she felt sick being in the same room with Hoskins.

"I feel incredibly disturbed that the man who repeatedly threatened my life is sitting across the room from me," she told the court. "I feel we are making his fantasies come true."

Madonna also relayed her bodyguard's encounter with Hoskins. "He was there to take me away ... that I was supposed to be his wife, that if he couldn't have me, he was going to slice my throat from ear to ear.''

Hoskins was later transferred to a state hospital as a "mentally disturbed offender," but was released. He was admitted to Metropolitan State Hospital after an arrest last July.

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