'Euphoria's Angus Cloud Shares the Terrifying Story Behind His Head Scar

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star Angus Cloud told the story behind the curved scar that runs along the left side of his scalp, an injury that almost killed him before his career even began.

The 24-year-old actor opened up about the harrowing injury in the 2022 Power of Young Hollywood issue of . «It's real,» he told the outlet. «I broke my skull on Friday the 13th.»In 2013, Cloud was walking down a darkly lit street in his hometown of downtown Oakland when he fell into a construction pit below. «I woke up 12 hours later at the bottom,» he said. «I was trapped.

I eventually climbed out after -- I don't know how long. It was hella hard to climb out, because my skull was broken, but my skin wasn't, so all the bleeding was internal, pressing up against my brain.

But they wasn't gonna find me down there. I found myself. Or God found me, whatever you want to call it.»He pulled himself out of the hole -- at least 10 feet by his estimation -- with broken fingers, blurry vision, and internal bleeding around his skull. «But I didn’t feel no pain,» he said. «I was in survival mode, you feel me?»Upon his escape, Cloud took the bus to his mom's house. «Because I was a kid!» he said. «I was 14 or 15.