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Black-ish star Jenifer Lewis, 67, admits she thought she was going to be eaten alive by a LION after she suffered a near-fatal 10-foot fall in the Serengeti - recalling fears her body would have to be 'flown back to the US in pieces'


Jenifer, 67, thought she had fallen to her death when she tumbled over the deck outside her hotel room in 'pitch black' and remembers her body hitting 'boulders, stones and sharp rocks'.

Jenifer, 67, was on the 'trip of a lifetime' in Africa when she fell into a ravine TV star's life flashed before her eyes as she heard a lion roar nearby after her fall Ruby Johnson actress described the past year of recovery as 'the hardest' During an exclusive interview on Good Morning America, Jenifer told Robin Roberts that as she laid on the ground 'in shock', she heard a lion roar and started imagining being eaten alive and envisaged 'pieces' of her body 'being flown back to the States'. Jenifer, who played the role of Ruby Johnson in popular TV sitcom Black-ish from 2014 until 2022, described the past year as 'the hardest' and revealed to Robin that she kept her fall - and recovery - a secret because: 'I didn't want y'all to know I had fallen until I could show you how I got back up.'

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