famous people aren't immortal but some
of them have enough luck to have escaped
death in dangerous situations from
tragic car accidents to near plane
crashes
check out these stories of celebrities
who came face-to-face with the afterlife
and live to tell the scary tale if
you're planning on going skydiving any
time soon you might not want to hear
about Ryan Reynolds's horrifying
experience from when he was just 19
years old when she discussed with Jimmy
Fallon
during an appearance on The Tonight Show
on his 13th jump his parachute opened
but then the risers broke making him
spin out of control
and almost lose consciousness
fortunately after a bit of hesitation
Reynolds was finally able to pull the
backup parachute but even that wasn't
enough to guarantee his safety as he put
it you can't steer the reserve chute
because it's round so I landed like
seven or eight miles away from the
actual drop zone and I was sure it was
going to land in powerlines and I
thought what a way to go you survived a
grande malfunction skydiving to burn to
death maybe this major brush with that
was how we found the confidence to play
Deadpool funny man Tracy Morgan suffered
life-threatening injuries and was in a
coma for two weeks after a truck crashed
into his limo van on the New Jersey
Turnpike in June 2014 his friend and
fellow passenger James McNair was killed
in the accident and three others were
injured a year after the crash Morgan
spoke to The Today Show about the tragic
incident and his recovery I'm not a
hundred percent yet I'm not and when I'm
there you'll know it I'll get back to
making you laugh I'll promise you in a
2015 interview of complex Morgan
described his experience being in a coma
claiming that he went to the other side
in the process as he put it this is not
something I'm making up do you know what
God said to me he said your roommate
ready I still got something for you to
do and Here I am doing an interview with
you not just played
I thought for a minute that was real but
I'm back
at age 3 Law & Order SVU star Mariska
Hargitay was in a car accident that
killed her mother actress Jayne
Mansfield in 1967 Hargitay survived the
crash but she ended up with a zigzag
scar in her head decades later Hargitay
discussed her mother's death with
Redbook magazine saying losing my mother
at such an early age as the scar of my
soul but I feel like it ultimately made
me into the person I am today I
understand the journey of life I had to
go through what I did to be here on an
episode of Inside the Actors Studio
Hargitay expressed that the accident
helped her find belief in God and that
she's learned to make peace with it and
accept her reality well I believe that
there are no accidents and I believe
that God has a plan and I have a very
deep a belief in God in 2009
Eminem released relapse his first album
in five years the title wasn't a
reference to the rapper relapsing into
the world of hip-hop but rather an
explicit admission of a year's long
struggle with a drug problem that nearly
ended his life after falling off the
sobriety wagon
the man otherwise known as Marshall
Mathers took a bunch of pills given to
him by an acquaintance and almost died
from an overdose a doctor told him that
he'd taken methadone a powerful drug
used clinically to help heroin users
cope with addiction in an interview with
v magazine Eminem admitted
had I known it was methadone I probably
wouldn't have taken it but as bad as I
was back then I can't even say 100% for
sure my doctor told me the amount of
methadone I'd taken was equivalent to
shooting up four bags of heroin even
when they told me I almost died it
didn't click within the span of one week
in early 2006
Joaquin Phoenix experienced one of the
best and one of the worst things to ever
happen in his life a few days before he
earned an Academy Award nomination for
his remarkable portrayal of Johnny Cash
and walked the line the actor was
involved in a terrible car accident in
Los Angeles while driving on a curvy
road in Laurel Canyon
the brakes on Phoenix's car reportedly
gave out and he swerved to avoid hitting
another vehicle thereby flipping his own
car he was still conscious
although horribly shaken up as he lay in
the wreckage that's when he heard a
quiet rapping on the passenger side
window he looked up and there was of all
people acclaimed German filmmaker Werner
Herzog the man behind such movies as
Grizzly Man and Bad Lieutenant port of
call New Orleans
herzog happened to live near the scene
of the accident and he was there at the
right time to help Phoenix out of the
automobile as Phoenix recalled to the
Los Angeles Times there was this German
voice saying just relax I said to myself
that's Verner Herzog there's something
so calming and beautiful about Verna
Herzog's voice he added I just got out
of the car and I said thank you and he
was gone
Kanye West loves to talk he never seems
to stop talking that's all well and good
because he's a brilliant rapper but it's
also a little ironic considering that
his big musical debut was 2004's through
the wire a song he recorded with his jaw
wired shut the song recounts a 2002
head-on car collision that nearly killed
the rapper he told Yahoo Music in 2004
that he viewed the accident as God
telling him that he was about to hand
him the world despite coming out of it
alive West did suffer permanent effects
as he explained to Yahoo my face looks
crazy to me now look at my mouth you
can't even see my bottom teeth when I
talk you always see the top teeth and
that's not how I used to be one of the
jobs of a comedian is to try to make
sense of life in the universe for the
rest of us while somehow also making a
smile with that in mind in 2016
Sarah Silverman took to Facebook to
attempt to explain how she nearly died
from a case of epiglottitis she
explained that she took a trip to the
ICU to treat what she hoped was just a
severely sore throat I went to the
doctor with a sore throat who goes to
the doctor for a sore throat but I did
yeah doctors diagnosed her with the
throat illness a potentially fatal
condition in which the epiglottis the
cartilage flap that covers the windpipe
and lets Aaron swells to such a degree
that breathing becomes impaired when she
woke up five days later she didn't
remember anything she noted that she
owes her life to the medical staff that
treated her she also wrote there's
something that happens when three people
you're so close to died within a year
then you almost die but don't that was
me I'm the one that didn't die it's a
strange dichotomy between why me and the
other why me English singer Ellie
Goulding saw her life nearly come to an
end at age 29 in 2016 she was on a
European tour and travelling across the
snowy remote Norwegian countryside with
photographer Conor McDonald they were in
a two cabin belt laggin which is a heavy
duty vehicle that looks like a tank as
it uses belts instead of wheels at one
point the wagon was rolling along until
it wasn't anymore the vehicle broke
through the icy layer atop
lake in the middle of the night Goulding
and mcdonald had to climb out through
the roof before the wagon sunk into the
icy lake mcdonald admitted on instagram
that he and Goulding weren't even going
to tell the general public about their
brush with that until they realized that
it was quote too matte of a story not to
tell leonardo dicaprio has almost died
several times like when he got mauled by
a bear okay that might have been from
the movie the revenant but the actor can
bring some personal experience to his
death-defying performances thanks to a
near-fatal incident during one of his
globe-trotting adventures it happened
when he was diving in South Africa using
an underwater cage and a great white
shark got trapped in the enclosure as he
explained to Wired magazine believe the
tops open and you have a regulator line
running to the surface then they Chum
the water with tuna a wave came and the
tuna sort of flipped up into the air
a shark jumped up and grabbed the tuna
and half of its body landed inside the
cage with me I sort of fell down to the
bottom and tried to lie flat the great
white took about five or six snaps and
arm's length away from my head the guys
there said that has never happened in
the 30 years they've been doing it the
Sharks aggressive undulations ultimately
resulted in the animal flipping itself
out of the cage and that wasn't the only
instance when DiCaprio narrowly escaped
death there's also the time he thought
he'd died and gone to heaven he was on a
plane to Russia and the engine exploded
as he told Ellen DeGeneres during an
appearance on her show he was looking
out the window and the entire engine
turned into a fireball the whole thing
happened so quickly that he actually
thought he had died fortunately for
everyone onboard the plane safely made
an emergency landing
however DiCaprio noted that the disaster
continued even after the flight attended
as he explained all of our tires
exploded and there was a hundred
different ambulances there and it was on
CNN and that was another bummer actor
Gary Busey is a longtime motorcycle
enthusiast he loved to ride around the
Los Angeles area on his Harley Davidson
but he also hated wearing a helmet while
he did so in November 1988 he even
attended a benefit in North Hollywood to
raise money to hire lobbyists to fight a
California state law requiring riders to
wear helmets just a few weeks later he
was riding his Harley in Culver City
California when he lost control Busey
was thrown off the bike and the back of
his head hit the curb and of course he
wasn't wearing a helmet he suffered
severe trauma on his head and underwent
emergency brain surgery
a little more graphic about that okay I
can't I can't no they they actually open
your skull yeah four weeks later you see
woke up from a coma and begin the long
road to recovery his doctors later told
him that if he had arrived at the
hospital just three minutes later he
wouldn't have survived
he now preaches a very different message
in 1991 he told the USA Today
I want people to understand that life is
very important and not if you're riding
a motorcycle skateboard or bicycle
without a helmet you're challenging the
face of death actress Sharon Stone was
one of the biggest green sirens of the
90s after such films as Basic Instinct
and silver most people with a pulse
either wanted to be with Sharon Stone or
they wanted to be Sharon Stone she
always exuded an unflappable confidence
but all the sense of self in the world
can't prepare a person for the sudden
loss of just about everything
in 2001 Stone felt a pain in her brain
so severe that she sought medical
attention convinced that she'd suffered
a brain hemorrhage the problem turned
out to be a deadly aneurysm that wreaked
havoc on her brain she ended up having
to relearn how to walk here right talk
remember and do just about everything
all over again the incident didn't take
her life though it sure felt that way at
times she's noted that her condition
wrecked her career and marriage and even
cost her custody of her child but
eventually she was able to see the whole
thing as a rebirth she spoke of the
experience on an episode of Oprah's
master class everything got richer for
me through this experience everything
got better for me through this
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