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Gloria Gaynor reveals real pain behind ‘I Will Survive’ in new doc

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Gloria Gaynor is famous for belting out one of the most iconic survival anthems of all time — and she meant every word.Only months before recording her classic “I Will Survive” in 1978, the two-time Grammy winner had to overcome a devastating accident that occurred while she was onstage performing at NYC’s Beacon Theatre. “I fall backwards over a monitor onstage.

I get back up, I finish with the show, went home, went to bed. Woke up the next morning paralyzed from the waist down,” the 79-year-old singer reveals in the new documentary “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive,” which premiered at the Tribeca Festival this weekend.“I was in the hospital for three months, and that’s where I had that first horrific spine surgery.

I didn’t know if I’d ever walk again.”Still worse, while Gaynor was “flat on my back” in the hospital, she got a letter from her record company saying the label wasn’t going to renew her contract.“I thought it was over,” she says in the doc.But even at her lowest point, Gaynor didn’t crumble.Just months after her near-paralyzing accident, a back-braced Gaynor was in the studio wailing for her life on what would become her signature song.

And the rest is history. “I Will Survive” — which, unfathomably, was originally released as the B-side to Gaynor’s cover of the Righteous Brothers’ “Substitute” — went on to become her first and only No.

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