The 42-year-old stuntman Jonathan Goodwin was paralyzed after an accident and is now in a wheelchair, his fiancée Amanda Abbington has said. Goodwin barely survived the accident during rehearsals for ‘America’s Got Talent: Extreme’ last year. “His courage and strength are unbelievable,” says his girlfriend.
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Amanda Abbington said Goodwin who appeared on the 2019 season of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ now uses a wheelchair. His spectacular acts consist of freeing himself from impossible situations. Goodwin had to escape from a straitjacket for this act while hanging upside down nine meters in the air between two cars. Instead, Goodwin was squashed in between when the cars caught fire.
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Goodwin fell 30 feet from the sky, lost a kidney, fractured both shoulder blades and crushed both legs. “He also had third-degree burns, fractured his spine, severed his spinal cord and nearly died,” his fiancée said. “As he was on the operating table, he almost died a second time.”
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“Positive person”
In recent years, Goodwin has regularly appeared in various acrobatic stunt programs. In 2013, the daredevil got his own show on British television entitled ‘The Incredible Mr. Goodwin’. The show featured a wide variety of stunts, from climbing skyscrapers to “extreme planking.” In 2019, the Briton made it to the final of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ with a stunt in which he was ‘buried alive’.
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Amanda Abbington, who is herself an actress, said Goodwin sent a voice message before his surgery saying there was a 50 percent chance he wouldn’t make it. He told her he loved her and thanked her for the past few months of his life with her.
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Despite his paralysis, Goodwin has “remained very positive and cheerful,” says his fiancée. “His courage and strength is something I strive for. He is very happy, a positive person, just liquid sunshine.”
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Below is a video of the accident. The images can be shocking.
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