HEIGL HURT IN HORSE RIDING ACCIDENT
KATHERINE HEIGL is having second thoughts about becoming an equestrian af ter injuring herself in a horse riding accident at her Utah ranch.
The Knocked Up star recently took up competitive horse training on her sprawling 25-acre estate, but admits she’s "having a hard time getting ba ck in the saddle" after losing control and splitting her knee open in a f all.
She explains, "I have no idea what I’m doing… it’s very difficult.
"He (the horse) is great and he wasn’t trying to kill me but I just los t control and I couldn’t stop him. The more upset I’d get, the faster he’ d go. He was running into the walls and I just leaped off of him into the se iron bars and I stood there bleeding watching him go berserk and I wen t, ‘What have I done?’" And the actress admits she’s lucky she jumped off when she did, because her injuries could have been much worse. She says, "I split my fingernai l open and cut my knee, it wasn’t that bad. I didn’t break anything." (JM
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