Casey Woods hasn’t walked since injuring himself on “Bachelor in Paradise” greater than 4 months in the past. As followers noticed on Monday evening’s episode of the sequence, Casey fainted after stirring up some drama on the seashore, but it surely turned out that his ankle harm was way more worrisome. ET has reached out to ABC for remark.
“I’ve by no means had a fainting spell earlier than… It truthfully occurred in a matter of seconds. The very last thing I bear in mind is popping to Rodney and saying, ‘I really feel dizzy. I feel I’m going to go out.’ After which I awoke on the bottom,” he recalled on the “Bachelor Glad Hour” podcast. “… I open my eyes. I don’t notice that my ankle is simply destroyed. I truly tried to stand up and that’s once I say, ‘Oh my God.’”
When he appeared down and noticed his ankle for the primary time post-faint, Casey mentioned “it appeared like virtually in the event you had wedged a soccer into my ankle.”
“They shortly put me within the ambulance, which I didn’t slot in. I’m 6’3″ and I actually had a 3rd of my physique hanging over,” Casey mentioned. “They’d a candy EMT holding my ankle and we had half-hour of unpaved roads. My leg is simply going up and down. If it wasn’t so painful it might’ve been the funniest factor you’ve seen in a Zach Galifianakis film or one thing.”
When he arrived on the hospital in Mexico, “they must put me beneath [to] do a discount on my ankle, which is principally placing it again in place.” Afterward, Casey mentioned, “They wrapped me up, put me in a splint, threw me on an airplane.”
After Casey acquired house, docs found that he had damaged all three bones in his ankle, which he known as “this insane, sudden [thing], a nasty break, because the expression goes.”
“I had three weeks earlier than I may even get surgical procedure as a result of the swelling was so unhealthy,” Casey mentioned. “… [For] a bit over a month, [for] 23 hours a day [I was] in mattress, leg up, couldn’t do something. Fortunately, my loving mother and father took me in and took care of me in that point and I couldn’t be extra grateful.”
Finally, he underwent the surgical procedure and returned house to Miami, Florida, however the journey didn’t finish there.
“A few week and a half in the past I used to be anticipating to get the information that I can begin strolling on a cane once more,” he mentioned. “They did X-rays, they mentioned, ‘One among your bones has shifted just a bit bit and we actually really feel like we will ensure you’re 100% [in the] future if we offer you one other surgical procedure.’”
So now, greater than 4 months after the incident, Casey continues to be in a forged and utilizing a knee scooter to get round.
“The knee scooter is the accent of the summer time, now scooting into fall. Everybody’s loving it,” he joked. “Fairly an sudden flip of occasions and simply actually unhappy. However on the similar time, thank God I didn’t hit my head on something. On the subject of fainting you don’t know what’s going to occur.”
Casey’s harm got here after he informed Brittany that Peter had been saying adverse issues about her, and acquired “overwhelmed” by the drama that ensued. Even so, Casey mentioned that he does “100% stand by the selection to let Brittany know that any individual was slandering her.”
“Initially, I heard Brittany’s story first hand, the truth that she was slandered earlier than. I feel she completely deserves a proper to defend herself,” he mentioned. “And by the way in which, she had the total proper to not confront him if she felt like, ‘You recognize what? He’s going house anyway. I don’t wish to make an even bigger deal of it.’ That was 100% her alternative.”
Casey mentioned that his alternative to inform Brittany was completely as a result of she deserved to know, not in an effort to attain her rose. Actually, he made an effort to inform Brittany about Peter’s feedback previous to the evening of the rose ceremony.
“I additionally 100 per cent knew that I used to be not getting a rose from Brittany, and that’s the place it will get a bit difficult,” he mentioned. “The evening that I heard that from Peter, I instantly went to go inform Brittany so she may cope with it, and he or she was making out with Andrew. There was not a whole lot of daylight when it comes to what was happening.”
Season 8 of “Bachelor in Paradise” airs Mondays and Tuesdays on ABC. Comply with together with ET’s protection of the present to remain up-to-date on all of the drama on the seashore.
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