One noughties TV icon has left fans worried as he shared a snap of him covered in blood after “cracking his skull” filming a project.
Prison Break star Dominic Purcell, who is married to Miley Cyrus’ mum Tish, posted a throwback snap showing him covered in rivulets of blood, with a clearly broken nose taking centre stage. The injuries were sustained from an iron bar falling on the star while filming.
In a since deleted Instagram post, Dominic told fans: “NO IT’S NOT MAKE-UP. When an iron bar breaks your face and cracks ya skull. You get it fixed and you move on. I often come back to this moment in #Morocco. I was filming a scene.
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“One minute I’m running the next a tremendous force exploded upon me. My stunty @johnnymacstunts came running to my side and said, ‘Doesn’t look good. Your nose is smashed and I can see your skull’. I replied, ‘That’s not good.’”
(Image: @dominicpurcell/Instagram)
The star went on: “Point is – I thought for sure I was going to have a brain bleed, pass out and die. I found it amusing that my end would be in the desert, with not a hospital in sight, doing what I love most. On reflection it’s how I accepted death that’s always puzzled me. I guess it’s just that. I accepted it. Now here I am. Another witness to the mysteries of life writing about it.
“Accept. Move forward. Get on with it. I guess? What other option is there to the business of living.”
(Image: FOX Image Collection via Getty Images)
Dominic sustained the injury while filming for the fifth season of Prison Break in 2016, and had to be airlifted to a medical facility to receive treatment. Filming wasn’t delayed after the injury, which occurred alongside his co-stars Wentworth Miller and Robert Knepper.
Dominic said at the time: “Stoked to be alive. All good. I didn’t get knocked out took a knee. Ha!! Doc said I have an unusually tough tissue fibre that’s what saved me apparently. Thank god for my #Viking heritage hahaha!!!!”
His then girlfriend, 90210 star AnnaLynne McCord, was said to be at his side throughout the ordeal. But now Dom has tied the knot with Tish Cyrus, confirming their nuptials in August 2023.
(Image: @dominicpurcell/Instagram)
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Tish branded the Prison Break actor her “hall pass” in 2022, and later explained on the Call Her Daddy podcast: “We go to lunch and make out for like three hours.” They even said ‘I love you’ on the very first date.
She explained: “I had followed him on Instagram and he DMed me and just said, ‘Hey Tish, just wanted to [say], I think you’re super cool and … you’re doing such a great job with your family.’ I didn’t see it for a year.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
