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The 40-Year-Old Virgin actor, Shelley Malil, will be released from prison eight years after he was given a life sentence for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 20 times inside her California home. 

On Tuesday, Malil, 53, appeared before a panel of parole commissioners who unanimously granted him parole.

Malil will be released in about two weeks. He will remain on supervised parole for five years, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin actor, Shelley Malil (pictured in court in 2010), 53, will be released from prison eight years after he was given a life sentence for stabbing his ex-girlfriend, Kendra Beebe, 20 times inside her California home

The panel heard comments from Malil and the victim, Kendra Beebe (left and right). Malil stabbed Beebe in 2008 after he caught her with another man

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The panel revisited a ruling from earlier this year, that Malil should be paroled in part because of assessments that found he posed a low risk of committing violence in the future. 

According to the Tribune, the panel heard comments from Malil and the victim, Kendra Beebe. 

Malil stabbed Beebe in 2008 after he caught her with another man.

He was convicted of attempted premeditated murder and assault with a deadly weapon.

Beebe, suffered punctured lungs and wounds to her neck, chest, back and arms in the attack.

In 2010, Malil apologized for stabbing Beebe and said he wanted to go to prison.

'I want to do whatever I need to do to make sure I make right from the wrong that I did,' he said.

'Kendra Beebe did not deserve anything that happened to her. ... I can't even begin to imagine what she has been through,' he added.

Before the 2010 sentencing, Beebe also spoke to the court about the physical and emotional pain she suffered.

'Despite the stab wounds he inflicted, I am alive,' she said, going on to say Malil's testimony had not been credible.

Mallil (left) was convicted of attempted premeditated murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Beebe, suffered punctured lungs and wounds to her neck, chest, back and arms in the attack. Pictured is a photo of  Beebe's blood-stained home

Malil - who played Haziz (left), a co-worker of Steve Carell's character in The 40-Year-Old Virgin - had faced a maximum penalty of life in prison with no possibility for parole for 14 years

'During the course of the trial it became clear he was an actor, but not a very good actor at that. His testimony was lie after lie after lie,' she said at the time. 

Malil testified at trial that he visited Beebe at her San Marcos home in suburban San Diego in August 2008 to apologize for taking personal items from her house and to warn that he emailed sexually explicit photos of the couple to her co-workers.

He stabbed her with a kitchen knife after finding her drinking wine with another man.

Malil fled the house after neighbors heard Beebe's screaming. He was arrested the next day at an Amtrak station in nearby Oceanside. 

The couple began dating in 2007 when Beebe responded to an online dating ad. The pair had a stormy relationship, authorities said.

Two days before the attack, Malil stranded Beebe and her cousin at the beach, stole marijuana and other items from her home and locked her out of her house.

Malil - who played Haziz, a co-worker of Steve Carell's character in The 40-Year-Old Virgin - had faced a maximum penalty of life in prison with no possibility for parole for 14 years.

His lawyer argued during the trial that there was no doubt Malil went too far when he picked up a kitchen knife and began stabbing Beebe, but said Malil never intended to kill the woman.

A panel of parole commissioners decided Tuesday that a former character actor who ambushed and repeatedly stabbed his girlfriend 10 years ago at her San Marcos home — nearly killing her — will be granted parole.

Shelley Malil, 53, who is probably best known for a supporting role in the movie “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” appeared before a panel of three parole commissioners at a hearing at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Riverside County.

The panel had convened to revisit a previous ruling, from earlier this year, that Malil should be paroled in part because of assessments that found he posed a low risk of committing violence in the future.

But Gov. Jerry Brown pushed back against that earlier decision, which prompted a review of the case.

On Tuesday, after hearing comments for more than an hour — including from Malil and the woman he attacked — the panel agreed not to rescind the parole offered to Malil earlier this year. The decision was unanimous.

“We find that the evidence supports that finding,” Commissioner Brian Roberts said.

Malil will be released in about two weeks and will remain on supervised parole for five years, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In August 2008, Kendra Beebe was stabbed 23 times at her home not far off San Elijo Road. The flesh on her chin was nearly sliced off, and she said Tuesday that she still carries the scars.

In a text message after the hearing, she said she was “shocked” at the panel’s decision, and that “the system is broken.”

“Today, these men had a chance to take real action showing that we, as a society, value women and will protect them,” Beebe said, adding that the parole commissioners did not take that opportunity.

“For this I am sad,” she said. “Because of their inaction, I will continue to live in fear.”

The Union-Tribune attended the hearing Tuesday at the prison near Blythe, but was not permitted to talk to the inmate, who was led from the room immediately after the decision. His attorney was not available after the hearing, and did not respond to an email request for comment.

In January, Malil told the parole board that the rage that fueled the attack was brought on by alcoholism, jealousy, arrogance and low-self worth. He has taken several self-help courses in prison, earned associate’s degrees from a correspondence college and participated in Alcoholics Anonymous.

After a panel of parole commissioners OK’d Malil’s release, the governor challenged that decision, arguing in a letter that there remained a lack of explanation as to why Malil’s “rage escalated so far out of control, and resulted in such a prolonged horror.”

District Attorney Summer Stephan issued a statement Tuesday saying she is “disappointed” that Malil will be released back into the community after serving only eight years in prison.

“We agree with the Governor that Malil demonstrated uncontrolled rage and lacks an understanding of his crime,” Stephan said. “The victims have endured tremendous physical and emotional pain. To approve this individual for release, given his violent attack, ignores the very real danger he poses to public safety.”

On the evening of Aug. 10, 2008, Beebe was at home, with her young children asleep upstairs. She was chatting with a friend on the back patio when Malil showed up, leaned over as if her were going to kiss her, and instead stabbed her in her torso.

Although he initially said the attack had been self-defense, Malil admitted during the hearing in January that he had grabbed the knife and driven from his Sherman Oaks home to San Marcos, specifically with the intent to “annihilate” her. He had felt slighted by her a day earlier.

During the attack at Beebe’s house, Malil also slashed at her with a broken wine glass, and stabbed her with a large knife he’d taken from her kitchen. He also tried to smother her with a pillow as she lay bleeding.

A jury in Superior Court in Vista convicted Malil of premeditated attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced in 2010 to 12 years to life in prison.

At the Tuesday hearing, held in a conference room at the prison, attorneys for the District Attorney’s Office and for Malil were allowed to make comments, as were Malil and his victims — Beebe and David Maldonado, the friend who was visiting when she was attacked.

His voice shaking, Malil told the panel that he takes “full responsibility for everything I did.”

The attack, he said, was “infinitely inexcusable — and I am sorry.”

He spoke of being an “emotional time bomb” at the time of the attack, of a lack of acting roles due to strikes in the entertainment industry, and of his financial distress — including foreclosure — when the economy melted down in 2008.

Those stresses, he said, were “coupled with heavy drinking and an unchallenged domestic violence mindset.”

“I am fully invested in my rehabilitation, and I never want to create another victim again,” Malil told the panel.

He wiped his eyes with a tissue when he was finished speaking.

Attorney Phyllis Shess, representing the District Attorney’s Office, stressed to the parole commissioners the level of violence in Malil’s crime, and that he’d had time to rethink his plans on the drive from Sherman Oaks to San Marcos but chose to carry out the attack anyway.

“This was a long thought-out, determined effort to wipe Kendra Beebe off the face of the earth,” Shess said. “He remains an incredibly dangerous person.”

Beebe and Maldonado, both of whom participated in the hearing via video conference, said Malil remains a source of fear in their respective lives.

“He can’t be out here, because we all live in fear of people like this,” Maldonado said.

Beebe, who now lives in another state, said she doesn’t have ‘the luxury” of a day passing without thoughts of the attack. “I am still living in fear,” Beebe said. “I have relieved this night hundreds of times.”

She told the panel Malil “calmly and methodically butchered me over and over.” She added that he also “attacked my character at trial.”

“He’s an actor by trade, and a liar by choice,” she said.

Beebe told the panel she believes her ex-husband played a role in the crime, and that Malil has not entirely come clean about it.

Malil has previously admitted that he called Beebe’s ex-husband before the attack to “infuriate” her; the pair had had a very contentious divorce.

In 2010, the prosecutor in Malil’s case said the communication was “unusual,” but there was no evidence that the ex-husband had played a part in Malil’s crime.

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