Celebrity Close Calls

For many, fame is a dream: critical acclaim, privilege, wealth, and a world of adoring fans. But in a split second, everything can disappear, and in Celebrity Close Calls, it almost did. In this new BIO series, celebrities share exclusive firsthand accounts of near-death experiences as cinematic reenactments relive the moments they were confronted with true danger. These true stories should be obituaries, tragic endings to phenomenal lives. Except for one thing: every one of them lived to tell the tale. Celebrities featured in season one include Jewel, who nearly died of an untreated kidney infection while living penniless in San Francisco; Ice-T, who barely survived a violent car accident after falling asleep at the wheel; singer Jermaine Jackson, who saved his brother Michael when he got stuck in a dangerous rip tide; model Niki Taylor, who suffered extensive liver damage in a car crash during the height of her fame; and Lou Diamond Philips, who was the victim of a stunt gone wrong on a big-budget film set.

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