Jamie Lynn Spears' eldest daughter, Maddie Watson, is publicly addressing her near-fatal ATV accident for the primary time in eight years.
“I did have an accident, although. I used to be in a coma and I got here again to life, and I'm very blessed,” Maddie, 17, mentioned in a YouTube video posted on Tuesday, August 12. “I've simply been very accident-prone. I swear my mother and father are superb, and they didn't do something to me.”
Maddie, Spears' daughter with ex-boyfriend Casey Aldridge, was using an ATV in February 2017 when the car flipped over and right into a pond. Maddie was knocked unconscious and remained underwater for a number of minutes. She was later airlifted to an area hospital in Louisiana for therapy. (Maddie lives in Louisiana together with her mother, stepfather Jamie Watson and her half-sister, Ivey.)
Maddie ultimately made a full restoration after a five-day hospitalization, and Spears, now 34, celebrates the “miracle” anniversary of her daughter's restoration yearly.
“I'll always remember that, as a result of it was the day my entire world stopped,” Spears wrote in a February 2020 Instagram publish. “It began like most Sundays, going to church, visiting household, to all of the sudden making an attempt to avoid wasting my daughter's life, to them taking her away, to us believing we had misplaced her without end, and it actually felt just like the world stood nonetheless round me.”
The Candy Magnolias actress added, “I've by no means spoken absolutely intimately about that day, and the occasions that adopted, however what I'll share is that God blessed us with a real miracle. Maddie not solely stayed right here with us, however she made a full restoration. I do know so a lot of you prayed so laborious for us, so I'll by no means let at the present time cross with out thanking every of you for each single prayer you mentioned for us.”
Maddie had by no means spoken concerning the incident till her YouTube debut, which she just lately began as a technique to “doc [her] senior 12 months” of highschool.
Jamie Lynn Spears is celebrating a milestone second for daughter Maddie. Spears, 33, shared a carousel of photographs by way of Instagram on Sunday, March 30, that includes Maddie, 16, in a floor-length lilac Sherri Hill costume with a thigh-high cut up. Maddie paired the look with metallic Christian Louboutin heels, styling her hair in a half-up, half-down ‘do. […]
“I really feel, like, after I'm older and I'm wanting again or perhaps even my youngsters are wanting again, they'll perceive how I used to be after I was youthful and the way my senior 12 months went,” Maddie defined. “The rationale I began [this account] was as a result of it was my senior 12 months.”
Spears, for her half, praised Maddie's vulnerability in sharing her story.
“What was purported to be a enjoyable technique to doc her senior 12 months on @youtube has now was a method for her to share the not so enjoyable elements of life, too,” Spears wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, August 13. “You'll be able to work so laborious, and do all the things proper, but nonetheless face adversity, it doesn't matter what path you're on in life. You'll be able to't management all the things that occurs to you, however you possibly can determine the way you react to what occurs to you.”
She continued, “I do know being a resilient particular person is without doubt one of the finest qualities a human can have, however it's solely earned by having no different selection however to be resilient. Gotta belief God's plan. I'm so happy with this child; she by no means lets something or anybody sit her down, and sharing her journey via all of it hopefully conjures up others to by no means cease going laborious for what they need out of life.”
