Christopher Reeve’s A-lister days ended in 1995 after he unwittingly joined the heartbreaking list of celebs who disappeared after an injury. The actor was in prime fitness when he suffered a freak accident while competing in a showjumping competition on Memorial Day weekend in 1995. History explains that the experienced equestrian was thrown from his horse, severing his spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.
As Life Stories notes, Reeve was approaching the course’s third jump when his horse abruptly ground to a halt and dug in its hooves, resulting in him being catapulted from the saddle and landing on his head. Reeve was immediately rushed to the hospital, where he languished in a coma before coming around and learning the devastating news that he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life.
In his 1998 memoir, “Still Me,” Reeve wrote that in the immediate aftermath of the accident, his mother gave up hope of him ever recovering. She argued with doctors that they should pull his life support and end her son’s life, but they told her to wait and see if he made it through. Christopher admitted to sometimes feeling the same as his mother, once telling his wife Dana, “Maybe we should let me go.” Dana was having none of it, though, assuring her husband she was there through thick and thin and that he was still the same person no matter what.
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