Amanda’s tears after TV stunt paralysed fiance
SHERLOCK star Amanda Abbington has broken down in tears on TV while discussing her fiance’s horror fireball stunt that left him paralysed.
Amanda, 48, who is best known for playing Dr Watson’s wife Mary in the BBC series, told how she is closer than ever with Jonathan Goodwin, 42, since the accident.
She recalled the harrowing experience after the escapologist nearly died twice following the ordeal.
Jonathan, who rose to fame on the 2019 series of Britain’s Got Talent, had been performing a stunt for the US version in October 2021 when disaster struck.
He was hanging upside down by his feet between two swinging cars 30 feet in the air when they collided and he was crushed between them as they caught fire, before falling head-first to the ground. He spent four months in hospital and is now wheelchair-bound.
Recalling the life-changing moment on Lorraine on ITV yesterday, Amanda became hugely tearful as she revealed she almost lost the “love of her life”.
She said: “He fell 30 feet and lost a kidney, broke both shoulder blades, shattered both legs. Third-degree burns, broke his spine and severed his spinal cord, and nearly died. And then on the operating table, he nearly died again.”
Jonathan added: “I’m not down about it. I’m doing as well as I can be.
“I did say, ‘You have a get out of jail free card – if you want to walk away, I completely understand’ and she told me not to be so stupid and that was that.”
Amanda, who has two children with Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman, added: “We are closer and tighter than ever, I think – every day is a joy, it’s fun.”
The couple are set to wed this summer.