BGT sword star Alexandr Magalan reveals he had to practice with MEDICS in case daring stunt went WRONG
Stuntman could have ripped open his oesophagus or broken his jaw during the performance on BGT
BRITAIN’s Got Talent daredevil Alexandr Magala last night revealed
that he was forced to practice with medics in preparation for a
near-fatal situation.
The sword-swallowing sensation left the judges unable to watch his
death-defying performance as he was dragged into the air with a huge
blade lodged down his throat before plummeting down a pole head-first
towards a pit of drills.
But the 28-year-old Moldovan, who won Russia’s Got Talent, told how he
was handed a step-by-step guide of what to do if the drills ended up
puncturing through his body.
He said: “We rehearsed if it goes wrong and what I should do if the
drills penetrate me.
“The process was for me to cling onto the pole as long as I can – you
can’t really take the drills away because this would cause even more
damage.
“The medics were training to lift me up and put me on the stretcher.
“If the drills penetrated me, they wanted to keep them inside me, put
me on the stretcher and then extract the drills a bit later.”
Alex, whose social media pages are filled with graphic injuries
sustained during training and shows, also admitted that he could have
ripped open his oesophagus and broken his jaw during his eye-popping
performance.
He added: “I had to be in control of all of my insides and my jaw –
most of the tension was going on my neck
“If anything went wrong, if my muscles weren't communicating with one
another, I could have got jaw damage, internal damage, my oesophagus
might have ripped and I could have broken my back.”
The performer, who taught himself to swallow swords in just 100 days,
also told of his concern ahead of his routine as he was only allowed
to rehearse once due to health and safety regulations.
Alex, who practiced his performance at home by hanging his swords on a
pull-up bar, said: “Here’s the truth - because of health and safety
restrictions and all this stuff I literally had only one time
rehearsing my show.
“Everybody was so worried, thought it was too risky and they just
wanted to see it as little times as possible.”
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