The story goes that on December 3, 2011, model and fashion blogger Lauren Scruggs boarded a friend’s small single-engine plane so they could enjoy Christmas lights from way up high in the Dallas, Texas, night sky. “I remember getting into the plane, and I was kind of fearful,” Scruggs recalled in a 2012 interview with “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie about the harrowing accident. “I didn’t know why. I just felt like something was going to happen, and we landed, and I thought that was interesting because I was just thinking we were going to crash. I just remember my feet touching the ground, and that’s all I remember.'”
Scruggs says she exited the plane in the dark and mistakenly walked right into the aircraft’s propellor, causing injuries to her left hand, left eye, and brain. “We worked quick to keep her alive,” orthopedic surgeon Dr. Adam Starr said during an appearance on NBC’s “Dateline.” Sadly, however, they were not able to save Scruggs’ left hand or her left eye. “The blade just tore through that soft tissue and took out her wrist bones,” he explained. As for her eye, surgeons eventually opted to remove the damaged eye after they concluded it could not be salvaged.
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Still, overcoming her immediate physical injuries proved only half the battle.
