Jason Derulo Opens Up About Near Death Experience

Jason Derulo opened up about his experience of breaking his neck after falling on his head and the seven months of recovery that followed.

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The singer revealed he broke his neck over a decade ago when he fell on his head during a rehearsal for his world tour, which ultimately was cancelled.

"I broke my neck in 2013," Jason said on the July 1 episode of Paris Hilton's I Am Paris podcast. "I was getting ready for my world tour and working with this trainer. He was like, 'Today, we're going to work on endurance, so I need you to do these back tucks back-to-back.' I slipped during one of the back tucks, and I landed on my head, breaking my C-2 vertebrae."

"As soon as it happened, I heard a big crack, and I was like, 'Is this how it all ends?'" He explained. "All the thoughts you could imagine are going through my head at the time and I remember thinking to myself, 'My mom is in the car waiting for me outside.' I didn't want to scare her."

The 34-year-old downplayed the injury, telling his mom while holding his neck, "I think I just hurt myself a little bit," before asking her to take him to the hospital "just to check it out."

"The doctor was like, 'Well, I have some good news and some bad news,'" Jason noted of his X-rays. "'You're still here with us and can move all your limbs. The bad news is you're going to be out for seven months.'"

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Unfortunately for Derulo, he’d have to cancel his upcoming world tour.

"It was the biggest tour of my life at that point, and I was instantly heartbroken," he confessed. "I had to let all these people down. People save their hard-earned money, and they want to be a part of this experience, and all of a sudden, all of that was down the drain." 

Those seven months had a significant emotional impact on Jason.

"I went from having all the reins in my life and being in control of my life to not having any kind of control at all, not being able to tie my shoes, not being able to take a shower of myself," he admitted. "That was the first time in my life where I felt like I had no control."

But, he took the obstacles in stride by creating a schedule for himself amid recovery.

"I woke up in the morning, I went to the gym and walked for about 45 minutes every day," Jason explained. "Then, I spent hours and hours in the studio—same time, same places, every day. And that's when I wrote my most successful album,Talk Dirty. It's because I created a routine. It's like a common thing in my life. When I'm able to follow a routine, amazing things happen."

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