Nip/Tuck star blames Christopher Reeve for his horseriding accident

Publish date: 2024-06-26


Clueless “Nip/Tuck” star Kelly Carlson places the blame on Christopher Reeve for the horseriding accident that left him paralyzed. She could have left the beloved recently departed actor out of her lecture on how to best ride a horse, but instead she decided to bring him up, knowing she would invite controversy and publicity:

OK, this is going to offend people,” Carlson told Steppin Out’s Chaunce Hayden. “I love Christopher Reeve . . . But it was more his fault. When you’re jumping a horse, 99.9 per cent of the time it’s your fault . . . You never take a horse over a fence unless your horse is totally trained to do it, and you have a relationship with the horse. It’s all about trust . . . You have to have your hip bone and heel bone in a straight line up and down. If you don’t, you’ll go over the horse’s head . . . Chris probably wasn’t sitting right in the saddle. That’s the only reason why you fall off.” Reeve died two years ago of complications from being paralyzed from the neck down. His wife, Dana, a non-smoker, died last year of lung cancer.

Just because you know horses doesn’t mean that Christopher Reeve had it coming! The best drivers get in accidents, and any number of things can go wrong. What a stupid, arrogant thing to say. She didn’t just say he probably did something wrong, she went and explained his mistake in detail as if she was there and saw it all. Even on the off chance that she’s right there’s no reason to bring it up and what good does it do! I hope this woman’s career completely tanks now. Now that it’s on Page Six, you know that she’s going to release a rambling statement completely backtracking on everything she said and claiming it was taken out of context.

Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana, who worked tirelessly for his charity until her death, are both departed. They leave behind a teenage son who is said to be under Robin Williams’ guardianship. (I hope he’s ok now that Williams is in rehab.)

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