He once played some of cinema’s most dangerous men, but no script could match what happened to him off-screen. At the height of his fame, one violent crash left him clinically dead, and a second diagnosis threatened to undo everything he’d fought to rebuild.
Fame can vanish in an instant, but so can life. For one well-known star of the 1980s and early ’90s, a sharp turn on a Los Angeles street nearly ended both. At the height of his career, this actor captivated audiences with his intense and gritty performances. But a devastating accident would push his body, mind, and spirit to the edge.
Over the decades that followed, he endured not one but two life-threatening medical emergencies. His story, still unfolding into his 80s, is one of survival, transformation, and the strange, sometimes surreal, wisdom that emerged along the way.
