The Bold and the Beautiful’s Scott Clifton Suffers Head Injury: ‘Life Imitates Art’
The Bold and the Beautiful star Scott Clifton — whose character, Liam, has suffered multiple traumatic brain injuries — revealed on Instagram that in real life, he recently required a trip to the emergency room after fainting and hitting his head.
Life Imitates Art for Scott Clifton
Clifton began his post by acknowledging that his injury was visible on B&B on the episodes that aired on June 5 and June 8. “Some of you may have noticed the stitches above Liam’s eyebrows in Friday’s and yesterday’s episodes of #boldandbeautiful (along with a few playful lines of dialogue between him and Wyatt [Darin Brooks] about it),” he wrote. “Well, sometimes life imitates art, and Liam no longer has the monopoly on head trauma.”
The actor went on to explain that on the eve of shooting the scenes in question, “I’d just come off of a particularly stressful day managing a crisis to do with my 81-year-old mother (everyone’s fine), couldn’t sleep, and got up in the middle of the night—a little too quickly, apparently—to use the bathroom. But something wasn’t quite right, and I could tell I was about to faint. That’s the last thing I remember.”
From there, he detailed, “I woke up slumped over the edge of the bathtub, upper body mangled inside of it with my feet draped outside. Blood everywhere, a splitting headache, and an impregnable determination to claw my way to a mirror and see just how much extra work I’d created for the B&B makeup department in a few short hours. And that’s when I noticed the giant hole in my face.”
Clifton got to the hospital, where he spent the remainder of the evening “in the company of some lovely ER doctors who fast-tracked me into a room, scanned me, stitched me, and gently admonished for thinking I could let a makeup brush anywhere near my face for weeks. Oh and also, I should prepare myself for some temporary memory loss and cognitive sluggishness from the concussion.”
In the end, B&B pushed back the filming of the scenes when two of the show’s producers, Rachel Herman and CaseyKasprzyk, learned of Clifton’s injury and encouraged him to focus on recuperating. Clifton noted that in the days that followed, “they would constantly check on me,” and that he also received an outpouring of support from his other colleagues at the show. He marveled, “The next day my phone was flooded with the most loving and concerned texts from the cast and crew, and that’s really the reason I’m posting about this: I am so sickeningly lucky to be a part of this team, this family, this wholly benevolent daytime empire.”
Clifton closed out his post by thanking “everyone at Bold & Beautiful for your kindness, care, grace, patience and resourcefulness—from our incredible makeup team, to our steadfast on-site medic, to the producers, directors, and @theedarinbrooks for putting up with this newfound ugly mug.”
Soap Opera Digest sends our best wishes to Clifton for a speedy recovery!
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