Orlando Bloom 'grateful' to be alive after 1998 spinal injury

Orlando Bloom is “grateful” to be alive after “narrowly escaping death” following his 1998 spine injury.

The Lord Of The Rings actor “crushed” his spine in a nasty injury in 1998 when he fell down three floors of a building and took to Instagram to share a photo from after the incident.

The Hollywood actor captioned the photo: “That’s me in my back brace circa 1998 about three months after I fell three floors and crushed my spine, narrowly escaping death and paralysis”.