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Celebrities Who Cheated Death In Wild Ways
Do you love dark stories? Subscribe to the That Got Dark newsletter to get your weekly dopamine fix of the macabre! It's a scary good time you won't want to miss. If there's one thing that makes celebrities "just like us" it's the fact that we all die at some point. And it turns out A LOT of celebrities have actually already had near-death experiences. Here are some that truly made my jaw drop: Leonardo DiCaprio — Leo has actually had not one, not two, but THREE encounters with death. The first incident occurred in 2006, while he was filming Blood Diamond in South Africa. Basically, he'd gone scuba diving and was in a cage when a great white shark "jumped" into his cage. He told Wired, "They leave the tops open [of the cage] and you have a regulator line running to the surface. Then they chum the water with tuna. A wave came, and the tuna sort of flipped up into the air. A shark jumped up and grabbed the tuna, and half its body landed inside the cage with me. I sort of fell down to the bottom and tried to lie flat. The great white took about five or six snaps an arm's length away from my head. The guys there said that has never happened in the 30 years they'd been doing it." DiCaprio later explained that the shark flipped itself back out again, in case you're wondering. Leo's second brush with death was in 2010 when the actor was on a Delta flight from New York to Moscow. Shortly after takeoff, the plane LOST AN ENGINE and had to circle back for an emergency landing. Speaking again to Wired, DiCaprio said of the nightmarish experience, "I was in business class, and an engine blew up in front of my eyes. It was right after 'Sully' Sullenberger landed on the Hudson. I was sitting there looking out at the wing, and the entire wing exploded in a fireball. I was the only one looking out at the moment this giant turbine exploded like a comet. It was crazy. They shut all the engines off for a couple of minutes, so you're just sitting there gliding with absolutely no sound, and nobody in the plane was saying anything. It was a surreal experience. They started the engines back up, and we did an emergency landing at JFK." Leo's third near-death experience was a 2010 skydiving incident where, during a tandem dive, both his main and backup parachutes got tangled. In that same Wired interview, Leo explained, "It was a tandem dive. We pulled the first chute. That was knotted up. The gentleman I was with cut it free. We did another free fall for like another 5, 10 seconds. I didn't even think about the extra chute, so I thought we were just plummeting to our deaths. He pulled the second, and that was knotted up too. He just kept shaking it and shaking it in midair, as all my friends were, you know, what felt like half a mile above me, and I'm plummeting toward the earth. And he finally unravels it in midair. The fun part was when he said, 'You're probably going to break your legs on the way down, because we're going too fast now.' FYI, Leo did not break his legs and managed to walk away with just a few bruises. Sharon Stone — Survived a massive stroke due to a brain hemorrhage in September 2001. She was given just a 1% chance of survival and had to relearn basic skills. Stone suffered a massive stroke caused by a ruptured vertebral artery, which led to a nine-day brain bleed. Initially, the medical staff actually "missed" the brain hemorrhage when they took an angiogram, and Stone was nearly sent home before her best friend advocated for a second scan that revealed the true severity. "I would have died if they had sent me home," she told Vogue UK. George Clooney — While filming Syriana in 2004, Clooney sustained a serious head and neck injury after falling off a chair. The pain had been so excruciating that it caused him to have thoughts of suicide. Clooney told the Guardian, "Before the surgery it was the most unbearable pain I've ever been through, literally where you'd go, well, you'll have to kill yourself at some point, you can't live like this." Clooney eventually underwent multiple blood-patch procedures (up to ~15 myelograms) and had a nine-hour brain surgery on Christmas Eve 2005 to repair the damage. Emilia Clarke — In 2011, Clarke suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage — a life-threatening type of stroke that is caused by bleeding in the space around the brain. Then, in 2013, she had a second aneurysm. For the first aneurysm, although Clarke had to undergo a minimally invasive surgery, she still woke up from the procedure with "unbearable" pain. She also could not remember her name due to aphasia, which was caused by the brain trauma. The second time, the procedure failed, and doctors had to go through her skull, which was a far more painful surgery and even harder recovery. Ozzy Osbourne — Osbourne has had numerous brushes with death, including a serious ATV accident in December 2003 that put him in a coma for several days. While riding an ATV on his estate in England, Osbourne crashed and was thrown off, suffering a broken neck vertebra, multiple broken ribs, and a collarbone. He even stopped breathing, flatlining until his bodyguard performed CPR. As a result, he fell into a coma for eight days before recovering. Harrison Ford — Was in a serious plane crash in March 2015 when his vintage WWII-era plane suffered engine failure. He ended up having to crash-land on a golf course in Los Angeles, and even clipped a tree during the descent. Ford sustained pretty severe injuries, including fractures to his pelvis, ankle, and back, as well as a head laceration. Speaking on Jimmy Kemmel Live!, Ford said of the traumatic event, "I remember the engine stopping; I remember that part very well. And then I remember the tower; I remember their suggestion. Their suggestion was that I take the normal route to land, and I knew I wasn't going to do that, so I said, 'no.' And that's the last thing that I remember until five days afterwards, actually."The NTSB later determined the engine failure was due to a loose/worn carburetor metering jet, which caused a fuel-air imbalance and power loss. 50 Cent — 50 Cent (real name: Curtis Jackson) was shot nine times at close range in May 2000. He was hit in the hand, arm, hip, leg, chest, and left cheek. Jackson had been sitting in a car outside his grandmother's home when an unknown assailant opened fire on him. Jackson spent 13 days in the hospital undergoing multiple "life-saving" surgeries, followed by months of recovery. Brendan Fraser — While filming The Mummy in 1996, Fraser was "choked out accidentally" during a close-up shot of his character being hanged and actually lost consciousness. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Fraser said of the incident, 'I was stuck on my toes — I had nowhere to go but down. And so he [a crew member holding the rope] was pulling up, and I was going down, and the next thing I knew, my elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways, there was gravel in my teeth, and everyone was really quiet." Travis Barker — Nearly died in a harrowing Learjet 60 crash on September 19, 2008, following a show in Colombia. Barker suffered second- and third-degree burns on roughly 65% of his body, and four others died in the crash. As the jet accelerated down the runway, all four tires blew out due to severe under-inflation, damaging the hydraulic and braking systems. The pilot attempted to abort takeoff, but the plane went off the runway, smashed through a fence, crossed a highway, hit an embankment, and burst into flames. There were six people on board. The two survivors were Barker and DJ AM. The four others who died were two crew members, Barker's assistant Chris Baker, and his security guard Charles 'Che' Still. Charlize Theron — While filming Aeon Flux in 2004, Theron suffered a serious neck injury that required surgery and almost left her paralyzed. While attempting a series of backflips during a choreographed fight scene, Theron landed on her neck, resulting in a herniated disc between her C3 and C4 vertebrae — dangerously close to the spinal cord. Doctors told her she had been "a centimeter away from being completely paralyzed" for the rest of her life. Kanye West — In October 2002, West was in a serious car accident that left his jaw wired shut. This incident inspired his breakout hit, Through the Wire. While driving home late from a recording session in Los Angeles, West reportedly fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into an oncoming vehicle, suffering serious injuries, including nasal fractures and his jaw shattering in three places, resulting in having a metal plate put into his chin and his mouth being wired shut for over a month. The other driver broke both his legs. Isla Fisher — Fisher nearly drowned while filming Now You See Me in 2013. She got stuck in a water tank for almost 3 minutes while filming an underwater escape scene. The stunt involved her being submerged and chained in a water tank. However, during one take, the chain connecting her handcuffs and leg restraints got jammed under a tank slat. Believing she was acting, the crew didn't realize she was in danger. Despite there being a quick release switch and a stunt person standing by with oxygen, Fisher eventually "doggy-paddled" to the bottom of the tank and released herself. Liam Hemsworth — When Hemsworth was a kid, he had a near-drowning incident while surfing in Australia. Hemsworth explained to US Magazine that his surfboard's leg rope became entangled tightly around his body, trapping him underwater like a ball. Struggling in waist‑deep water, he was unable to surface and 'almost drowned' before finally being able to break free. Orlando Bloom — When he was 19, Bloom fell several stories from a window and broke his back. Doctors told him that he might not ever walk again. Bloom told People that he was climbing up to a roof terrace when the drainpipe he was holding onto collapsed. After spending 12 days in the hospital, Bloom was fitted with plates and screws, discharged on crutches, and later wore a back brace for months. Ryan Reynolds — While working towards getting a skydiving license, during his 13th jump, Reynolds' parachute didn't open, leaving him "flapping uselessly" in the wind and spinning out of control. Although he had a reserve chute, Reynolds froze from fear, afraid that it might also fail. However, he was able to "snap out of it" and eventually pull the cord. The incident left him scarred and with a fear of flying. Post Malone — Post Malone was involved in a serious plane emergency in August 2018, where the jet he was on blew two tires during takeoff. After the tire blowout, the plane circled to burn fuel and attempted an emergency landing at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Massachusetts. However, the plane was diverted to Stewart International Airport in New York, where it safely landed. Bear Grylls — In 1996, Grylls was involved in a serious parachuting accident. While training in Zambia, his parachute malfunctioned, causing him to fall from 16,000 feet. He ended up landing on his back, which resulted in three vertebrae fractures. Grylls underwent a year of rehabilitation and, despite the severity of his injuries, he made a strong recovery and, less than two years later, became the youngest Briton (at the time) to summit Mount Everest. Eric Roberts — In June 1981, Roberts was driving near his home in Connecticut when he lost control and hit a tree. He suffered severe injuries and remained in a coma for three days. Roberts sustained neurological damage that required extensive rehabilitation, including relearning to walk, speak, and remember. Finally, Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe bassist) — In December 1987, Sixx overdosed on heroin and was declared clinically dead for roughly two minutes before paramedics revived him with an adrenaline injection to the heart. Sixx was found unresponsive in his apartment, and paramedics administered adrenaline in the ambulance, which revived him. Sixx entered rehab the following month and ultimately got sober. Like this kind of content? Subscribe to the That Got Dark newsletter to get a weekly post just like this delivered directly to your inbox. It's a scary good time you won't want to miss.
New Indian Express
8 hours ago
- Business
- New Indian Express
Aspirational Blocks Programme: Telangana's Gattu block placed fifth in NITI Aayog rankings
HYDERABAD: Gattu block of Jogulamba Gadwal district has secured the 5th rank at the national level in the Delta rankings of Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP) announced by NITI Aayog on Friday. It also stood second in Zone-3, which includes the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. The rankings were announced as part of the Delta Rankings for the January-March 2025 quarter. Jogulamba Gadwal District Collector B M Santhosh in a statement said that Gattu block is set to receive a cash reward of Rs 1 crore from NITI Aayog in recognition of its good performance. He said that it is a remarkable achievement as a total of 500 aspirational blocks competed. As part of the initiative, a 'Wall of Fame' will be displayed at NITI Aayog's headquarters in New Delhi to showcase the success stories of top-performing blocks. The Delta Ranking is based on 39 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) spread across five critical sectors, including health and nutrition, education, agriculture and allied activities, basic infrastructure, social development. Between the October-December 2024 and January-March 2025 quarters, Gattu block recorded a notable composite score improvement from 61.24 to 69.43, marking a growth of 8.19%.
Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Mississippi's crops struggle with rainfall challenges
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) – Rainfall at well above normal accumulations is impacting the state's row crops, according to officials. Mike Brown, state climatologist with the Mississippi State University (MSU) Department of Geosciences, said many areas of the state have had one and a half times the typical amount of rain for this time of year. 'Annually, we generally see around 58 inches of rain in our coastal counties, 52 in our northern counties, and around 55 inches through the central portion of the state,' Brown said. 'Mid-August through mid-October tends to be our driest period. Many portions of the Delta began the year well above normal for precipitation, but those areas have seen a drier end of May and have remained at or just below average for June.' As of late June, officials said Starkville, Greenville, Tupelo and Southaven have about 50% more rain than usual since the planting and growing season began. Meridian and Greenwood are just above normal levels, while Jackson, Biloxi and McComb have seen about one-third more rain than normal. What is the impact of the blueberry industry in Mississippi? Dave Spencer, an Extension pivot irrigation specialist with the MSU Extension Service, said frequent rains limit farmers' ability to manage their crops. 'In many areas, fieldwork has been delayed, especially on clay-textured soils,' he said. Rice, cotton, soybeans and sweet potatoes all suffered from frequent rains that kept fields too wet to plant in the ideal planting windows. About half the rice crop was planted rapidly from mid- to late-April, but officials said crop progress was delayed as weeds began to crop up, levee construction was delayed and nitrogen applications were pushed back. Brian Pieralisi, Extension cotton specialist, said he will be surprised if Mississippi growers were able to plant more than half of the 360,000 acres they intended to plant in 2025. Soybeans have the advantage of a planting window that extends to early July, so as growers are forced to give up planting the intended crop such as cotton or rice, many have switched to late-planted soybeans. Sweet potatoes are mostly grown in a small area of north Mississippi around Calhoun County, and officials said this crop is about 30% behind schedule after challenges increased in early May. Mississippi growers planted 490,000 acres of corn in 2024, but experts anticipate that acreage is up significantly this year. Officials said the rains did not hamper corn planting as much as other crops. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CNN
a day ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
The blues live in this Mississippi Delta town
See More Videos On the surface, downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, looks largely the same as it did decades ago: a collection of historic brick buildings lining wide avenues faded to postcard sepia. But local Bubba O'Keefe has a retort ready for visitors to his hometown who eye the city's aesthetic as anything but authentic Southern charm. 'People come here and say, 'Oh my gosh, this place is going down,'' says O'Keefe, the tourism director for this Mississippi Delta city of 14,000, with an implied wink. 'I say, 'Well, you should have seen it 25 years ago. We're on the way up.'' Jokes aside, he makes a solid point. It was a Saturday night in Clarksdale 25 years ago that inspired blues aficionado-turned-Clarksdale champion Roger Stolle to move to town. Somehow, in a city with a deep blues history that claimed to be the home of the legendary crossroads — where according to lore, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil under cover of darkness for his dazzling slide-guitar chops — he couldn't find a lick of live music anywhere. 'What was disturbing about it is that nobody was particularly disturbed,' says Stolle, founder of Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, which serves as a de facto welcome center for visitors to Clarksdale. 'It didn't seem amazing to them like it seemed to me, that Clarksdale would be quiet on a Saturday night. You could either luck into the greatest thing ever, or it was crickets.' MORE AMERICA'S BEST TOWNS TO VISIT 2025 1. Ithaca, NY 2. Missoula, MT 3. Asheville, NC 4. Bend, OR 5. Annapolis, MD See all 10 towns How we picked the Best Towns to Visit Share your picks for our top towns in 2026 Few musicians working today know this better than singer and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Musselwhite, a blues legend who was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, and moved to Clarksdale a few years ago after spending decades in places like Chicago and California. During his youth in the 1950s, Clarksdale's streets on Saturdays were crowded with people, pickup trucks and mules pulling wagons. 'My earliest memories are of Clarksdale, and it was just a booming town,' Musselwhite says. 'Then I slowly saw it almost become a ghost town. And now it's coming back.' Thanks to years of efforts by Stolle, O'Keefe and plenty of other believers, music fans can now find live music seven nights a week in the blues capital recently fictionalized in the hit vampire flick 'Sinners,' which leans heavily into the region's musical heritage. According to O'Keefe, tourism tax receipts are steadily rising, improving 16% since 2016, and blues-related clubs, shops and cafes started by locals and transplants are fueling the success. 'The thing about Clarkdale is, you have to experience it,' O'Keefe says. 'It's blues in an authentic setting. And when you walk around downtown, it's like being on a movie set. You're walking back in time.' Prev Next Nothing says Delta like a good party, and Clarksdale can throw down with the best of them. In fact, it's home to more than a dozen music festivals where blues legends perform and revelers dance along at one of the city's two-dozen venues (as well as its street corners, outdoor stages and just about anywhere you can plug in an amplifier). One of the first collaborations between O'Keefe and Stolle, Juke Joint Festival, is now one of the region's marquee annual attractions. Beginning as a 15-act fest in 2004, the 2025 edition in April featured more than 100 blues performances and attracted thousands of visitors from 47 states and 26 foreign countries. The latest addition to the festival circuit is the recent Son House Tribute Festival, a three-day celebration of the pioneering bluesman's music. Outside of those events, though, the party plays on at venues like Ground Zero Blues Club, the famed hall co-owned by Academy Award-winning actor and local Morgan Freeman, where acts like Super Chikan and Anthony 'Big A' Sherrod perform regularly on a graffitied stage in a former cotton warehouse. Even local-made-good blues phenom Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram, who took guitar lessons at the Delta Blues Museum next door, is known to turn up for a set when he's in town. 'Everything in this building is on purpose,' says Tameal Edwards, the club's booking manager. 'Some people are like, 'Y'all need to upgrade this,' and we're like, 'Nope.'' Rest assured, all the usual amenities are functional and sanitized — but there's plenty of built-in character to draw visitors into an authentic juke experience. While we're talking about juke joints, a few blocks away on Sunflower Avenue is Red's, a classic juke serving cold beer, live music and big personalities. Owner Orlando Paden, who inherited the club from his father, Red Paden, reopened the spot in time for the 2024 Juke Joint Festival and has kept Red's Old Timers Blues Festival alive on Labor Day weekend. While the beloved Delta Blues Alley Cafe burned down in March, plenty of recent restaurant-bar arrivals have absorbed the crowds. With live music on the menu every day, some venues trade off nights, giving visitors a look at the up-and-coming venues popping up in downtown storefronts, like The MatchBox, Buster's Down Home Blues Club and Bad Apple Blues Club. One of the regular performers at all of them is Laura 'Lala' Craig, a California native who makes her living playing music primarily with Super Chikan and by teaching piano to local students. Like many of the city's more recent additions, she fell hard for the blues and moved to Clarksdale permanently around the time Stolle arrived to make it her life's work. 'If you know the old-school tuning forks, they sort of buzz, they resonate,' says Craig. 'It's like I get these tuning-fork things at my back, like my Root Chakra that tells me, 'Oh my goodness, this is gonna be some epiphany, it's gonna change my life.' And I just felt that way the entire time I was here.' New lodging options are giving visitors more reasons to stay in town and experience more, O'Keefe says. The town's most famous overnight accommodations are found at the Shack Up Inn, a collection of rustic shacks where sharecroppers once lived, that's also home to a music venue decorated in a roadside-Americana motif. But being three miles south of downtown means it's largely an experience of its own. Meanwhile, new lodging options at places like the Travelers Hotel, located in the heart of the city within walking distance to most of the restaurants and entertainment, enable a more immersive Clarksdale visit. ESSENTIAL CLARKSDALE EAT: Local barbecue at Abe's or Deltafied fare at Hooker Grocer DRINK: A pint at Red Panther Brewing Co. and or brews at Red's STAY: At Travelers Hotel or the luxurious Clark House Inn SEE: Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art and the Delta Blues Museum Ann Williams, who owns the property with her husband, Clarksdale native Chuck Rutledge, fell in love with the city's 'gritty' character and designed the hotel to get people to explore. Without in-room TVs to distract them, guests can congregate in the hotel's ground-floor common area and lowkey bar to pregame before heading out on the town. 'We want people to either be in the lobby meeting folks from somewhere else or meeting locals, or be out supporting local music venues and bars and restaurants,' Williams says. 'Who wants to go sit in your hotel room all night and stare at a box, you know? Get out and do stuff.' Nearby, the Auberge Hostel rents rooms designed for families or individuals, as well as lower-cost, dormitory-style bunk rooms, while The Lofts at the Five and Dime offers a homier treatment with suites that include full kitchens. Clarksdale cooking isn't all typical Southern soul-food fare. In fact, many of the dishes you'll find on local menus are influenced by New Orleans cooking as much as the Deep South. One of the newest arrivals to the Clarksdale culinary scene, Levon's — after a Great Dane named for The Band's Levon Helm, a Deltan from just over the river in Arkansas — deftly commingles Cajun-Creole classics like gumbo and boudin balls with crossover dishes like blackened catfish, putting a Crescent City spin on a local delicacy. Another new arrival, Meraki Roasting Company, is a non-profit coffee roaster that teaches life skills and entrepreneurship to local teens and incubates new businesses. One of those startups, Lil Sistas, serves pulled pork, smoked turkey legs, collard greens, cornbread muffins and breakfast staples Thursday through Sunday under chef Micheal Williams. Named for Tutwiler native and 'Boom Boom' bluesman John Lee Hooker, the Hooker Grocer & Eatery serves up local beers by Red Panther, a new downtown brewery started by the Travelers Hotel folks ('the best place to go on a Sunday afternoon,' says Naomi King, an Australian transplant who owns Levon's). On Hooker's menu, diners will find po' boys, shrimp, and Deltafied takes on fare like the French dip, which is loaded with brisket smoked onsite. Guests looking to explore beyond Clarksdale's blues scene can tour Cutrer Mansion, which inspired some of playwright Tennessee Williams's most outlandish characters and settings, then learn about the region's history on a Jeep tour with Delta Bohemian Tours. For outdoorsy types, Quapaw Canoe Company guides single- or multi-night canoe trips on the Mississippi River, which flows just 10 miles west of downtown. New developments on the horizon for Clarksdale visitors include Wild Bill's II, a Clarksdale location of the legendary Memphis club, and a proposed permanent RV park within walking distance of downtown hotspots — another anchor to get people to discover the Clarksdale blues experience. 'Clarkdale, it's a serendipitous scavenger hunt,' said O'Keefe. 'And you'll turn up some interesting things.' Jim Beaugez writes about music and culture from his native Mississippi and has been published by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Oxford American, Outside and Garden & Gun. Far more than Mount Rushmore
Globe and Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Ruby Liu gets keys to former Hudson's Bay-owned store as she looks to acquire more leases
British Columbia billionaire Ruby Liu has received the keys to a store taken over from Hudson's Bay, the first of more than two dozen that she has her eyes on. Liu plans to turn the former Saks OFF 5th store in the Tsawwassen Mills mall in Delta, B.C., into a cultural, tourist and retail destination. It's the smallest of three Bay leases she's been allowed to take over by an Ontario court overseeing creditor protection proceedings because she owns the B.C. malls where they are located in Delta, Victoria and Nanaimo. Liu wants another 25 Hudson's Bay leases across the country, but the court has heard that landlords are wary because they don't know what she plans for the stores. Ruby Liu lacks 'foundational' experience to run former HBC stores, Cadillac Fairview CEO says She says she would divide those locations into either flagship or retail stores, which she would name after herself, Ruby Liu. Liu says retail operations could open in three to six months, but flagship stores would need improvements and renovations, and those locations haven't yet been decided.
