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Orlando Bloom Was Told He'd Never Walk Again After Falling 3 Floors When He Was 20

The 47-year-old actor opened up about the ordeal in more detail while on Trevor Noah's 'What Now?' podcast.

podcast, the Lord of the Rings star opened up in greater detail about that fateful day in 1998, when a well-intended gesture resulted in a medical emergency that actually required paramedics to convince a hospital to admit him as a patient. That's no problem,' and instead I saw this piece of metal running down the wall, which was not a drain pipe you could hold on to," Bloom recalled. In August 2021, Bloom again shared his story on Instagram with a post showing him wearing a back brace while riding a bicycle.

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