Gary Busey claims he died during brain surgery and was ‘surrounded by angels’- but then came back to life
POINT Break actor Gary Busey opened up in a new interview about his horrible 1988 motorcycle accident that led to him needing brain surgery.
Gary claimed he died after the operation and was "surrounded by angels” as he went into the “other side” before coming back to life.
The 75-year-old was severely injured in December 1988 when he took off on his Harley-Davidson without a helmet on and ended up in an accident.
He told : “I went off the bike without a helmet, hit my head into a curb, split my skull, passed away after brain surgery and went to the other side -- the spiritual realm where I got information.
Gary continued: “And I came back, and these messages, these definitions, came to me first class. I’ll think of a word and write the word down without thinking."
The near-death experience apparently had him thinking of words like “faith” and “hope” on repeat.
He said going over to the other side like “trust, love, protection and happiness like you cannot feel on Earth.”
While he was there, the Predator 2 actor said three angels came up and surrounded him.
The entertainer added: "Three balls of light came up to me and talked to me.
“The one on the left talked to me in an androgynous voice and said the direction I was going in was good, but because of my responsibility to mankind I had to look for helping spirits around."
The balls of light apparently offered him the choice of going with them or returning to his body and continuing on with his life on Earth, and he chose the latter and was revived.
Though he suffered permanent brain damage and a psychiatrist he was referred to while filming Celebrity Rehab in 2008 suggested the incident was causing him to act impulsively, Gary doesn’t wish the accident never happened.
According to Gary, the accident didn’t damage his brain, but he instead has "a brain disordered in a better direction because of how it happened and how it recovered."
Gary was married to Judy Helkenberg, his first wife and the mother of son Jake Busey, at the time.
The two got hitched in 1968 and divorced in 1990, a couple of years after his motorcycle accident.
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He later married actress Tiani Warden, who recently died from an accidental cocaine overdose in jail, in 1996, but the two split in 2001.
The Lethal Weapon actor has now been with partner Steffanie Sampson for over a decade, and they share 10-year-old son Luke Busey.
The dad of three is also father to daughter Alectra, 26, from a previous relationship with stunt performer Tracy Hutchinson.