The actress broke her leg doing physical activity but with such bad luck that she had to undergo several operations to recover. To make matters worse, in one of the hospitalizations she suffered an infection in one arm. Now, already recovered, she talks about her lived experience.
Brooke Shields has not had a good time in recent months. The actress who became known for The Blue Lagoon, the mythical film of the 80s, fractured the femur of her right leg while she was exercising, last January. And what could have been normal recovery from a fracture was complicated by a staph infection, for which the actress had to undergo several surgeries.
“I think it has almost been the greatest blessing to date because I realize how much of a fighter I am,” the 55-year-old actress said in an interview for Good Morning America, already recovered. “There are so many things that could have happened, I feel so lucky. I feel so lucky to be alive,” she assured.
Recalling the moment she was injured, Shields confessed that her pain was excruciating. "I don't remember how she was, I started screaming. She was just screaming, and she had never screamed like that. Not even in childbirth,” she recalled.
The actress told that after seriously injuring herself she was rushed to the hospital, where she underwent surgery and to repair her fracture, two metal rods were placed in her hip. However, the next day she felt more pain and she had to undergo surgery a second time, to add more rods and a metal plate.
However, as her injuries began to heal, an infection in her arm at the IV site landed her back in the hospital, where she stayed for another two weeks. During that period, due to the prevailing protocols due to the pandemic, she was unable to receive visitors, which made the situation more complicated.
“Once the fear took over me, that's when I started to falter. I don't think I've ever been more afraid because I was helpless,” she confessed. And she added that thinking of her family was her greatest motivation in those hard days. “I had to keep calm for my family, because I would never return home…” My daughters asked me if I thought I was going to die, ”revealed the actress, who is already in full recovery.
