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Falling For Oscar

[Blind Gossip] Just going to The Academy Awards can sometimes be a rough and tumble event!

The house doctor of the Academy Awards, Dr. George Gauthier, tells the story of an actress who suffered a serious injury at the awards show.

She was preparing to go on stage to receive an Oscar… when she tripped and broke her collarbone!

From Daily Mail:

She was being called to the stage and wasn’t prepared for it as she was still downstairs backstage when the call came out.

The Dolby Center backstage stairs are made out of concrete, so she hurriedly ran up the stairs, with high heels on, but tripped over her gown, collapsing into the stairs, and broke her right collarbone. She was in so much pain and couldn’t move her right arm.

What did the doctor do?

I had only a few seconds to deal with this, it’s live TV, you can’t delay the awards, so I set the collarbone in place despite there being so much swelling. Set and go!

I told her that she had to keep her right arm crossed over her gown to keep it in place, looking like Napoleon! We had to reassure her that she looked natural, but she was sweating so much with all the make-up on her face.

She did a great job and picked up the award one-handed. That’s acting right there!

Though the actress made it through her speech, he says she had to miss the notorious after parties.

You can fake it for a minute and thank everybody, but backstage she fell apart, and we had to get her on a stretcher to the hospital.

Similar: Hanging On Through Oscar

Collarbone Actress:

[Optional] Who do you think will win the Oscars this Sunday for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress?

BA:

BSA:

NOMINEES FOR BEST ACTRESS:

Cynthia Erivo for “Harriet”
Scarlett Johansson for “Marriage Story”
Saoirse Ronan for “Little Women”
Renée Zellweger for “Judy”
Charlize Theron for “Bombshell”

NOMINEES FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Kathy Bates for “Richard Jewell”
Laura Dern for “Marriage Story”
Scarlett Johansson for “Jojo Rabbit”
Florence Pugh for “Little Women”
Margot Robbie for “Bombshell”
(Photos from Hollywood Reporter)

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Comments

  1. Jeanesgenes says

    No idea for Collarbone, but that hurts like a MF when it happens. Plus you’re sling bound for a while.
    Renee Zellweger for Best Actress
    Laura Dern for Best Supporting.

  6. montebell says

    J Lawrence seems a little obvious, bu she did trip going up to the stage to get her award. I haven’t seen any of the movies so can’t say who should win. I’m just glad a certain pole dancer won’t be there as a nominee.

  7. Baileygirl says

    I broke my collarbone when I was a todler many moons ago!
    BA: Rene Zellweger
    BSA: Kathy Bates

  8. darnda says

    Can’t be her, she didn’t come on from back stage to win her only Oscar and was using both hands with ease during her speech. And she was at snapped the after parties.

  11. shellie says

    Jennifer Lawrence is too obvious in my opinion. She did the trip on the stairs so often people were starting to question whether it was deliberate then all of a sudden it stopped so i figure it was. This sounds like a one off genuine accident so I have no clue.

    As for this years Oscars – Renee Zellweger for Best Actress and Laura Dern for Best Supporting Actress.

  12. Mischief Girl says

    I don’t think this is Jennifer Lawrence. The blind specifically says the woman fell backstage. JLaw fell in front of everyone.
    It’s going to take some work to determine who this is. Note the blind doesn’t say the woman won for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress, BUT it was someone known enough that she was backstage when her award was called. She wasn’t sitting in the audience waiting.
    It’ll be fun to investigate this!