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“America’s Got Talent: Extreme” Contestant Jonathan Goodwin Wheelchair Bound After Set Injury

“America’s Got Talent: Extreme” contestant Jonathan Goodwin is paralyzed for life after surviving a stunt accident in October 2021.

“America’s Got Talent: Extreme” Contestant Jonathan Goodwin Wheelchair Bound After Set Injury
Jonathan Goodwin

 

The self-proclaimed daredevil, 42, posted a photo on Instagram Thursday of himself in a wheelchair with his dog on his lap, which he captioned, “6 months ago I went to rehearse something and left this little hairy monkey waiting patiently for me. He didn’t see his dad again until just a couple of weeks ago and when he finally did, dad had new cool wheels.

A lot has changed in the last 6 months, but love is a constant and I’m very very loved. Looking forward to my next chapters and being a roll model.”

Goodwin opened up even further about his injury on his Instagram Story. He revealed he has a T11 spinal cord injury, which he said means he is “paralyzed from the waist down.”

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Goodwin’s fiancée, Amanda Abbington, appeared on the “Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner” podcast Monday and talked about the severity of her partner’s health issues.

Who Is Amanda Abbington? Jonathan Goodwin Girlfriend Wiki- Age & Accident Reaction
Jonathan Goodwin and fiancée, Amanda Abbington

“He fell 30 feet and lost a kidney, broke both shoulder blades, shattered both legs,” the “Sherlock” actress, 48, said. “Third-degree burns, broke his spine and severed his spinal cord and nearly died. And then on the operating table, he nearly died again.”

She added, “He’s paralyzed now, he’s in a wheelchair. Unless there’s a kind of stem cell surgery or that thing that Elon Musk is designing with the little chip, he’ll be like that forever.”

Musk, 50, claims he will one day make humans hyper-intelligent and let paralyzed people walk again due to the research of his brain chip company Neuralink.

Jonathan Goodwin became injured in October 2021 when he was rehearsing a stunt ahead of the live broadcast of “AGT: Extreme”.

During the horrific accident, the escape artist was pinned between two vehicles. The vehicles erupted into a fireball upon impact before he fell 40 feet to the ground and hit his head.

The show temporarily halted production as a result. Goodwin was not released from the hospital until February.

 

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