One Tree Hill star Chad Michael Murray shared a harrowing story about a near-death experience when he was a teenager.
The actor, now 43, said that back when he was 15 years old, he lost half of the blood in his body and was ‘on [his] deathbed.’
On Friday’s episode of the Great Company podcast, he told host Jamie Laing that he was in the hospital for over two months.
At the time, he said his intestines got ‘all twisted up’ and he was suffering from internal bleeding.
He said he didn’t remember much from that experience as he was going in and out of consciousness and was undergoing emergency surgery.
This comes after Murray opened up about his mental health and revealed he was battling agoraphobia amid his One Tree Hill success when he was in his early 20s.
One Tree Hill star Chad Michael Murray shared a harrowing story about a near-death experience when he was a teenager; pictured July in London
And at one point during his near-death, teenage experience, the Freakier Friday star said that he saw his father talking to a priest about last rites at one point before his nurse gave him a blood transfusion to save his life.
He added that during those weeks in the hospital, his weight had dropped from 180 to a 118 pounds.
Murray is known for playing the lead role of Lucas Scott in the CW teen drama series from 2003 to 2009 and again reprising his role in 2012.
He also starred opposite Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday in 2003 and in the recently released sequel Freakier Friday.
He is also known for playing the love interest of Hilary Duff’s character in the 2004 romantic comedy A Cinderella Story.
The actor is also known for making appearances on Gilmore Girls, Dawson’s Creek and Riverdale.
He said he didn’t remember much from that experience as he was going in and out of consciousness and was undergoing emergency surgery; pictured July in New York City
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The actor, now 43, said that back when he was 15 years old, he lost half of the blood in his body and was ‘on [his] deathbed’; pictured in his early 20s in 2003 One Tree Hill portrait
