Orlando Bloom is feeling grateful for his health and body.
in 2005 that he was climbing a rooftop terrace with friends when a drainpipe he scaled collapsed and fell three stories.
"Until then, I didn't have a healthy appreciation for life and death - that we're not invincible," Bloom told the magazine."And for four days, I faced the idea of living in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I went to some dark places in my mind. I realized, I'm either going to walk again or I'm not."
"But that accident has informed everything in my life," he continued."Until you're close to losing it, you don't realize. I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.
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