The English percussionist/dancer feels grateful to be alive after breaking multiple bones and damaging his ligaments following a 'really bad' motorcycle accident.
- Jun 18, 2023
AceShowbiz - Bez is blessed to be alive after a motorcycle crash. The Happy Mondays dancer suffered broken bones and damaged ligaments after being thrown off his vehicle in a "really bad accident" while driving off-road in Magaluf, Majorca, in February.
"We were off-road in the mountains near Magaluf - it was literally on the way home. I lost the front end and had a really bad accident. I broke bones. I broke my foot and did all my ligaments in. I'm just recovered. It still hurts a bit and it's not quite right, but it's getting more and more easier," he told the Daily Star Sunday newspaper.
But the 59-year-old maracas player insisted he has no plans to quit biking because he loves it so much. He said, "I'll never give it up, because I get so much pleasure out of it. My last accident was three years ago, and if I can go another three without injury, I'll be happy. That's one of the things I love to do, and when I go out, it takes my mind off everything."
The crash isn't Bez's only medical scare in recent times because he previously admitted he thought he was going to die when he contracted COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic. He told the Daily Star newspaper in 2021, "I had Covid a week before they made the announcement."
"I couldn't breathe and I couldn't tell if it was my heart or my lungs. I got to the hospital and I said, 'I've been having this heart attack for three days' and they plugged me into the machines and everything and I had a swollen heart and a virus. I really seriously thought I was going to die."
Fortunately, Bez was in good shape because he was training for a celebrity boxing match and thinks that helped with his recovery. He added, "I continued my juicing and taking my vitamin C, drinking my apple cider vinegar and I did get over it very, very quickly."
