Even celebrities injure themselves every now and then and sometimes, it just happens to be caught on camera. Sometimes it’s only a minor injury, but sometimes injuries can be quite grisly. Read on for 9 of the most excruciating celebrity injuries.
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Jackie Chan
Jackie nearly always performs his own stunts, though in 1986 he sustained a very serious injury while on the set of Armour of God. He was supposed to jump from a castle wall into a tree and managed to do it without any problems on his first try. The second time he did it, he missed the tree and ended up falling over 25 feet face-first on to a rock. The result: emergency brain surgery. To this day, Jackie has a plastic plug covering a hole in his skull.
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Daniel Craig
The James Bond actor endured two separate injuries while filming 2008’s Quantum of Solace. Not only did he slice off the top of one of his fingers, he also gashed his face and required eight stitches.
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Brad Pitt
While shooting Se7en, Brad unfortunately sustained a broken arm. Instead of production shooting down, Brad’s injury was written into the script.
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Charlize Theron
While performing a stunt, Charlize did a backflip and landed on her neck, which resulted in her suffering a herniated disc. She was only 10 days into the shooting of Aeon Flux and production was shut down for eight weeks because of her injury. Doctors thought she might have limited mobility, but she proved them wrong.
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Channing Tatum
While filming The Eagle, a crew member caused Channing quite an unpleasant injury. The scene Channing was filming involved him wading in icy cold water and in between takes, a crew member would warm up his wetsuit by mixing river water with boiling water and putting the mixture into the wetsuit. After filming was done for the day, Channing warmed up for one last time, only the crew member had forgot to put river water into the mixture, causing Channing’ privates to be severely scalded.
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Katy Perry
While at the MuchMusic Awards after party in 2010, Katy had a nasty fall and gashed her leg open. She needed a total of 17 stitches and wouldn’t let this injury get in the way of a live TV performance scheduled for the following week, as she popped up on TV wearing a bandage over her healing wound.
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Viggo Mortensen
While filming Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Viggo endured a number of injuries and all of them were written into the film! He managed to break a tooth, as well as a few toes. Plus, when filming one scene he almost drowned.
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Halle Berry
While filming a scene for 2003’s Gothika, Halle managed to break her ulna. They were shooting a scene where Robert’s character tries to Halle’s down, but she struggles. In fact, Halle was so strong at resisting that she ended up causing herself the injury, which led to her being out of action for three weeks.
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Shia Lebeouf
The actor was involved in a car crash in 2008 thanks to drink driving and received a serious injury to his hand. In fact, his hand is now permanently injured thanks to his driving under the influence.
