AGT: Extreme stuntman Jonathan Goodwin speaks for the first time about the accident that left him paralyzed

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Goodwin said on the British TV show Lorraine of the accident that occurred last October: "It was pretty gnarly, it sounds dramatic sitting here but I did nearly die. I fell 30 feet and I saved my life because I fell head-first to the ground but didn’t hit my head because I tucked in my head but I broke my shoulders. The surgeon who did the spinal operation said it was basically the worst he’d ever seen so the prognosis is that this is me from here on out, I’m not down about it, to be honest. I’m doing as well as I can be, obviously I’ve lost out but as an able-bodied person there are loads of things you won’t do but you don’t wake up and think that, it’s the same as me.” Goodwin did give tells his fiancé, Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington, that it would be okay if she left him. But, she said, "we are closer and tighter than ever and we have this unspoken thing. We said the other day that we are the people that are gonna say yes to stuff, life’s too short, be in the moment and grab it with both hands because you don’t know what’s around the corner.”