Dylan O’Brien Opens Up About His Near-Death Experience On ‘Maze Runner’: ‘I Was Really Struggling’

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Dyan O’Brien is sharing his story of struggle and recovery with the world. The “Teen Wolf” actor starred as the protagonist of the “Maze Runner” franchise across three films, but a stunt on the third film “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” in 2016 left him seriously incapacitated. “I was really struggling,” he told Bustle in an interview on March 16. “I never stopped working until that accident.

It’s a really strange thing to have so much of my identity be my career and then have this thing happen to me where I was convinced that I couldn’t do it anymore.

I was just like, ‘I can’t ever imagine being on another set.'” READ MORE: Dylan O’Brien Made ‘Difficult Decision’ To Not Be In ‘Teen Wolf The Movie’ The star was filming a stunt involving a motorcycle when it slipped into a slide and the star fell off of the speeding vehicle.

He suffered a concussion, brain trauma, and a facial fracture which resulted in surgery and left the production suspended until his recovery.