human beings are fragile and accidents
happen all the time even to the rich
famous and fabulous but the human spirit
is incredibly strong as evidenced by
these artists who were nearly destroyed
by serious and potentially fatal
accidents let's take a look at some
celebs who disappeared for a period of
time after an injury only to rise up and
get back to work
Paula Abdul opposites attract singer
Paula Abdul was right up there with
Madonna and Janet Jackson in the
pantheon of early 90s female pop stars
but after one last album in 1995 Abdul
straight-up disappeared when an injury
prevented her from touring or promoting
her music as much as she would have
liked in 1992 Abdul was involved in a
rough emergency plane landing that left
her with physical damage requiring
extensive medical attention
Abdul told today I had four plates and
fourteen cervical spinal surgeries it
all happened during the time that I
disappeared and no one knew where I went
after a handful of public appearances
Abdul re-emerged in 2002 as the nice
judge on American Idol Tracy Morgan in
June 2014
Saturday Night Live that Tracy Morgan
was riding in a limo bus on the New
Jersey Turnpike when the vehicle got
hammered by a semi truck according to
CNN Morgan suffered broken ribs a broken
leg and a broken nose while Morgan kept
fans abreast of his progress he didn't
return to entertainment until October
2015 with a triumphant SNL hosting gig
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Gloria Estefan in 1990 superstar Gloria
Estefan was on board a tour bus that was
hit by a truck and roughly half a dozen
people were rushed to the hospital
according to the Los Angeles Times
Estefan was listed in stable condition
but suffered a broken vertebra along her
spinal column leaving her in a
tremendous amount of pain recovery was
slow and difficult but almost a year
later a Stefan REO merged on the
American Music Awards in January 1991 to
perform her appropriately titled
comeback hit coming out of the dark and
I said you know what okay been there
done that
pull yourself by the bootstraps and
let's move forward cuz it's a waste of
time Christopher Reeve for millions of
fans actor and horse enthusiast
Christopher Reeve will always be
Superman but in 1995 after falling off
his horse and landing on his head Reeve
was paralyzed from the neck down
according to the Washington Post he
required extensive rehabilitation and a
respirator for the rest of his life
amazingly Reeve returned to the screen
starring in a 1998 made-for-tv remake of
Alfred Hitchcock's rear window he went
on to raise funds for spinal cord injury
research through the Christopher Reeve
paralysis Foundation wrote his memoirs
and co-directed the animated movie
everyone's hero which was released a
year and a half after his passing in
2004 Sharon Stone Basic Instinct star
Sharon Stone nearly lost her life in
2001 when she suffered a potentially
fatal brain aneurysm fortunately she
lived through it but the experience took
a tremendous toll and then I had to
learn to walk here right talk remember
and everything all over again just a
couple of years later her career was
back in gear again everything got better
for me through this experience it was
like starting over Dylan O'Brien on the
set of the third Maze Runner film in
2016
Dylan O'Brien was filming a stunt when
he was pulled from one moving vehicle
and struck by another according to
vulture he suffered a slew of brutal
injuries including a facial fracture a
concussion and some brain trauma
it took O'Brien six months to get
healthy again during which the actor
debated if he even wanted to return to
showbiz
he told vulture I really was in a dark
place there for a while and it wasn't an
easy journey back there was a time there
where I didn't know if I would ever do
it again he did of course do it again
co-starring in the 2017 movie American
assassin as well as bravely going back
to complete a little film called Maze
Runner at the death cure Carrie
Underwood just a week after co-hosting
the CMA Awards in November of 2017
country star Carrie Underwood suffered a
nasty fall and some steps outside her
home
according to her team the singer broke
her wrist and needed an operation to
insert some kind of metal securing
device Underwood updated fans on Twitter
writing I just wanted to let everyone
know that I'm doing great had surgery on
my wrist yesterday and all went well
even though I'll be setting off airport
metal detectors from now on
but according to People magazine in
January 2018 Underwood revealed in a fan
club letter that the accident had been
more intense than she initially led on
saying in addition to breaking my wrist
I somehow managed to injure my face as
well I'll spare you the gruesome details
but when I came out of surgery the night
of my
all the doctor told my husband Mike that
he had put between 40 and 50 stitches in
she added that when she was ready to get
in front of a camera again she might
quote look a bit different
however when below-deck star Adrienne
gang saw underwater the gym she took a
picture and posted it on Twitter to us
Underwood looks just like she always did
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