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Brooke Shields says she didn't take painkillers after harrowing leg injury, staph infection

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Brooke Shields broke her leg in January and came down with a staph infection, but the actress refused to take prescription painkillers.

Despite multiple surgeries to fix her injury, the actress wouldn’t take anything stronger than over-the-counter drugs like Tylenol during her recovery.

On Friday, the 55-year-old told People magazine she was concerned about relying on addictive painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin. "I didn’t want to leave the hospital with no pain, get home and think I was dying because the pain was excruciating," she told the outlet.

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