Suzanne Somers On Learning How To Walk Again After Breaking Her Neck

In a recent interview with Closer Weekly, Suzanne Somers revealed that she went through a difficult time after sustaining a fall in her house. “I broke my whole right side — my neck, spine, hip, pelvis, and knee,” she said. “And it’s been over a year of pain and recovery.

“I’m not all the way back yet, but I’m going to be OK,” she continued. “My husband grabbed my hand at the top of our bedroom stairs. He uncharacteristically slipped at the top and fell, and I fell on top of him. It’s 50 steps down. We didn’t get hurt. But the torque of that fall threw me back on the cement. Full force. I heard my neck break.”

The actress talks about her recovery process

The actress revealed that it took a lot of effort for her to recuperate. “It’s just been a long recovery. I had to go into rehab to learn how to walk again,” Somers said. “But I did! You know, every bad thing that happens to you is an opportunity to look for the good. I’ve learned so much about gratitude. I’ve discovered God through all this in a way that I’ve never discovered God before.”

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Somers also claimed that she has been able to maintain a positive attitude despite facing challenges. “I always think, ‘What good is that negative thought going to do me?’ There’s nothing, there’s no payoff,” she stated. “So, I live in positives and try to speak in positives, because that’s what I believe.”

Suzanne Somers gives an account of her career development

During the interview, the actress talked about why she forayed into acting. “I was a single mother at 18, and we needed to eat. It wasn’t that I wanted to act so badly; I wanted to make some decent money,” Somers said. “So, I signed with an agent and became an extra in movies in San Francisco.”

Somers further reminisced on her audition for the 1973 movie American Graffiti and how memorable it was. “I remember the casting office, and it was filled with blondes. I said, ‘I can’t stay. I parked in the red out front and I don’t have any money to pay a ticket.’ I was admitted into [director] George Lucas’ office,” she says. “He’s a small man and was slumped down in the chair, kind of shy. He said, ‘Can you drive?’ I said, ‘Yeah.; He said, ‘Thank you.’ When I walked in my house, there was a call saying I got the part.”

The actress also revealed that at the time of the production of American Graffiti, she did not imagine that it would be highly successful. “When I interviewed, I didn’t know who George Lucas was,” Somers confessed. “On set, I looked around [at co-stars] Cindy Williams, Ron Howard, and Paul Le Mat. I thought, ‘It looks like a bunch of losers to me!’”