“I was still on morphine,” Lewis said of her stint on The Masked Singer, after she “escaped death” following a near-fatal fall in 2022 that really changed her outlook on life.
For Jenifer Lewislife these days is all about resilience.
After falling 10 feet during a trip to Nairobi in November 2022 and fracturing his acetabulum, the hip bone socket that holds the femur in place, Lewis underwent nine hours of surgery and eight months of intensive rehabilitation and physical treatment – but she had only five months of recovery when she decided to step The masked singer internship.
TooFab spoke with Lewis ahead of her unmasking on Wednesday, where the longtime singer and actress shared how collaborating on the singing competition series helped her regain her confidence after nearly losing her life in the Serengeti.
“I was only five months old in the fall, so I was still on morphine,” revealed Lewis, who starred as Miss. Cleocatra. “I’ve been telling all the people, if you look closely when I’m sitting on the throne, you’ll see that Cleocatra head kind of go (imitating dozing).
She continued: “He’s dozing off a little. But I was a good lady, look, I was in pain, but my friend said, ‘Get up. Get up and go do what you love to do.’”
Although Lewis stated that she still walked and was unable to walk, she was able to sing and move around quite well in that Cleocatra costume thanks to the help of EMT team.
“Masked Singer it was good. They knew I couldn’t go for a walk, so the boys accompanied me. The ‘stormy weather’, I used to be trapped in a harness. They arrested me because I couldn’t walk. They always said they would take care of me, and they did,” explained the black star. “On the second track, you’ll find that I never let go of the mic stand, even when I was kicking it a little. I didn’t release the trigger, I would have fallen, so they screwed it. So they took really good care of me.”
“I still used a walker, I couldn’t walk, but I could sing. And my soul was amused. And that’s why my friends needed me to get out of bed,” she added. “They said, ‘Come on, come on, you can do this. They declared that they would take care of you.’”
Recalling the accident, Lewis commented on the second full circle of having Doctors Without Borders by his side after the fall, after making a donation to the group during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When Doctors Without Borders came along, and I don’t mention this as much because I remain anonymous in my donations, but at the height of Covid, I had sent Doctors Without Borders, a big donation, ‘trigger I knew they wanted it so bad. So when that girl, when she leaned over and said, ‘Mrs. Lewis, we are doctors without borders, we are going to put you in a helicopter and take care of you”, said the 67-year-old film and TV star, emotional as he appeared again in that harrowing second.
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“Talk about the circle of life,” she added. “So it’s a triumphant testimony because I’m a kid again.”
Lewis showed how she is back with her performance in EMTand the beloved actress, who debuted on Broadway, is inspired to contemplate a return to the stage.
“We’ll see. We’ll see. I can always go back to Broadway. , Broadway is hard. Doing Broadway is like being in the Olympics. You do eight shows a week. You’re wired, you need sleep. And every time you get up, you need warm up. You have to get ready. It’s a lot of work, Broadway,” Lewis shared before teasing her solo show, which she says will detail what happened to her on that fateful night in the African jungle. female titled ‘Jennifer Lewis Unleashed’ where I’ll talk about Africa. It’s going to be comedy. I’m going to discuss how when I was lying on the floor and it was totally dark, I came out of my body and the baboon wanted a selfie. You know, the hippo comes in and I say, have you heard of Ozempic, bitch?
“It’s all so silly,” she joked, before sharing that she found humor in what happened to her. “I mean, now I can laugh about the fall, as terrifying as the whole experience was. I mean, you can’t make this up. You can’t invent wild animals. Who falls into a hole and there are wild animals there? Roaring lions and lady. I was like, ‘What!?’”
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Lewis, who was forced to keep her Masked Singer efficiency shrouded in secrecy, did the same when it came to the accident, revealing that she didn’t even inform her family that she was in the hospital until after she recovered.
“I wanted to tell you as soon as I was ready,” said Lewis, who first opened up about the 2022 incident in March.
“I kept it so under the radar that only a few people knew. My dear friends knew. I didn’t tell my family until I got (home), do you think I would tell my brothers, their sister was in Nairobi, in ICU? she added, once again choking back tears. “What the hell were they going to do? Like I said to Robin Roberts, fly over there and bring me flowers?
“I wanted all of Jennifer. That was so painful. I knew I would need every inch of who I was before I fell, to heal, to focus, to work every day and work hard,” Lewis continued. “So the moment I did Masked Singer, I wasn’t even halfway there again. I would say it was a little over a quarter again. However, it helped me. My teammates know me. They said, ‘Take her. Do her.’ And I’m glad I did. It was nice.”
Now, more than a year after the accident, back on her toes and dancing again, Lewis has shifted her focus to not only taking the initiatives that make her feel good, but also continuing to change that game and income on a daily basis. life.
“After you fall like that kid, all you want is to serve, no drama, no stress, nothing. Let’s have fun. Let us be completely happy. Let’s finish the job. There is no more time – time becomes so precious when you escape death like this. And believe me, I escaped death. That rock was six inches from my head,” Lewis shared.
She continued: “…So when you escape that, what I really feel is that I was the one who survived a plane crash. And when that happens, you must make money to be alive, you have to be a game changer. You need to focus on serving people and giving back. And more than that, share the story. — How did you get back, Mrs. Lewis? As?’ The first was that you wanted to go back.
The Masked Singer and Group B continue with the My Life Night soundtrack next Wednesday at 8pm ET on Fox.