Simon Cowell was 'unfit' before devastating bike accident broke his back: 'Happened for a reason'

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Simon Cowell proved that he’s not afraid to get back on his bike after he suffered a severe accident. The "America’s Got Talent" judge detailed the tragic moment after he broke his back during a bike crash in 2020. "It was painful, it wasn’t great," Cowell, 63, said during an appearance on "Today." "However, I was so unfit before the accident.

I didn’t know how unfit I was until I had to do all this stuff afterwards," he noted. "And I’m like, ‘My God.’ Things like that, I believe, happened for a reason." The former "American Idol" judge continued to say his devastating accident didn’t stop him from continuing to ride his bike. "I’m still going to stay on my bike," he asserted. "I’m obsessed with these things." Cowell’s comments come after he was involved in a series of bike crashes in the last several years.

He broke his back in an electric biking accident in August 2020 and had to undergo an extensive six-hour surgery to repair the damage. "It could have been a lot worse.

When I saw the X-ray, I really nearly smashed my spine to pieces, so I literally wouldn’t [have] been able to walk," he told "Extra" in 2021.