Kaley Cuoco Nearly Had Her Leg Amputated After Horseback Driving Accident

Kaley Cuoco very practically misplaced her leg.

In an excerpt from the e-book The Huge Bang Principle: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Sequence, shared by Vainness Honest, the actress talks about her scary horseback using accident over 10 years in the past.

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The accident occurred in September 2010. Whereas Cuoco using at a Los Angeles ranch, she was thrown off her horse. The horse then tried to leap over her, however landed on her left leg.

After being rushed to the hospital, the extreme accidents led medical doctors to suppose they could must amputate her leg.

“That was the darkest, most horrifying time in all 12 years [of the show],” recollects “Huge Bang Principle” creator Chuck Lorre. “Kaley may have misplaced her leg. It was a collection of miracles that allowed us to get via that and for her to come back out the opposite finish of that wholesome.”

“They have been speaking about amputating her leg, which was devastating to listen to,” co-star Johnny Galecki provides.

Fortunately, Lorre helped discover surgeons who may assist, sharing that Cuoco was quickly “in surgical procedure with one of the best surgeons accessible to cease an an infection as a result of her leg was huge open.”

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For Cuoco, the expertise was horrifying, particularly since she went into surgical procedure with out figuring out whether or not the leg would must be amputated.

“Earlier than I went into surgical procedure, they made me signal one thing that mentioned, ‘We don’t know till we get in there and see this leg, and it may come out that you just don’t have it anymore.’ That wasn’t the case, clearly, however I needed to signal one thing that mentioned, ‘OK, you’ll be able to,’” she says. “Every part ended up effective, and I used to be up and dealing every week later, however the medical doctors acted like I used to be by no means going to stroll once more. It’s nonetheless an excessive amount of for me to enter, and it sounded approach worse than it was. And naturally it was spiraling and everybody was freaking out, which I get. It scared folks.”

Galecki provides, “However I feel it scared folks in a great way, myself included. The primary day I noticed you in that state, I simply shed tears in my storage.”