Jonathan Goodwin Opens Up About 'America's Got Talent: Extreme' Accident That Left Him Paralyzed
etonline.combecoming paralyzed from the waist down following a stunt gone wrong during a taping of . In his first TV interview since the accident six months ago, Goodwin opens up about adjusting to being wheelchair bound. «I don't really have a great memory ...I know that there was a moment where I knew it was going wrong,» he told of the near-fatal incident.In October, a spokesperson for told ET that during a rehearsal for , «an accident occurred in which escape artist Jonathan Goodwin was injured while performing his act.» According to , Goodwin was suspended 70 feet in the air in a straitjacket hanging by his feet from a wire, with two cars on either side of him swinging back and forth.
He was attempting a stunt where he would free himself from the straitjacket and land on an air mattress before the cars crushed him.
After the accident, Goodwin was in critical condition, and had broken legs and shoulders, a damaged kidney, a punctured lung, fractured ribs and a complete spinal fracture.«The spinal surgeon said that my injury was the worst that he'd ever seen and also told me that there was a really good chance I wouldn't make it through the surgery,» the 42-year-old stuntman told .A post shared by T H E D A R E D E V I L (@jonathangoodwinofficial)Goodwin said following the accident, he told his fiancée of one month, Amanda Abbington, that she had «a get out of jail free card» — but she stuck by him.«Amanda has been there for me every day since and has been and was really my motivation to get through it,» he shared.The stuntman goes on to describe what it's like being paralyzed.
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