Long before she was paid to make people laugh, Amy Schumer was a typical high school student who enjoyed playing volleyball. She also liked to surf. Schumer explained how one day she went to a beach near Manhattan in the winter to catch some waves. While out in the water by herself, “I skegged myself. My whole fin went into my leg, and I had to yank it out,” she told Vanity Fair about colliding with her board. Schumer said she first thought about getting out of the water for the possibility of sharks. Then, “I thought, Well, I’m going to die. I can’t believe I’m going to die like this.”
While she fortunately didn’t die, she recalled thinking, “I’m going to lose my leg. And now I’m going to have to go and be a speaker at high schools and, like, motivate people.” Schumer was fine in the end, but instead of hanging ten, she was hanging by 41 stitches in the aftermath. She credited a man on the beach with holding her wound closed with his bare hands while they waited for an ambulance. “He saved my life, for sure,” Schumer explained.
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Even after the horrific accident, Schumer was unafraid to go to the beach and continue surfing. She shared a video (via People) of herself body surfing in the ocean. This time, however, Schumer stopped for a different kind of accident, explaining that her time got “cut short because my bathing suit fell right on off!”
