ATLANTA — Quinton Aaron, best known for playing Michael Oher in “The Blind Side” film, was hospitalized in Atlanta with a severe blood infection back in January.
During his treatment, he was temporarily in a coma. Channel 2 Action News reported on his stay in Atlanta while he was on life support.
Seven months after the medical emergency had him intubated and hospitalized in Atlanta, Aaron shared how he’s doing in recovery, as well as the distance he’s placed between himself and the woman he loved.
After being released, Aaron spoke exclusively with ABC News on Good Morning America, telling the world about his condition and what caused the medical emergency.
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Aaron said at the time that he’d had a spinal stroke, caused by the infection.
Aaron told ABC News’ Steve Osunsami at the time that he spent four days in a coma and couldn’t breathe on his own for a month. When he woke up, he learned that his wife was married to another man and couldn’t make any legal decisions on his behalf.
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Now that he’s out of the hospital, Aaron is talking about his recovery from the nearly fatal infection and sharing details about who he’s relied on since.
Aaron told reporters at multiple publications that since the coma, he and his now-ex-wife, Margarita DeLeon, haven’t spoken.
He told Entertainment Weekly and Penn Live that he’d been paralyzed from the waist down but is optimistic he’ll walk again and is still recovering at a rehabilitation facility.
Aaron said similar to E! Online, saying he’s focused on moving forward, both with his physical recovery and moving on from the relationship with DeLeon.
The actor told People Magazine that once he’d learned she was still married to her estranged ex-husband after awakening from a coma, he cut ties with her.
In a separate interview with ABC News, DeLeon said she had not been aware she was still married, saying she believed the divorce was finalized years earlier.
“When I told Quinton back in the hospital bed, and I want to be very honest about this, I feel like this needs to be said and brought out there. I said to him, I said, ‘Bibi, this information that your family pulled up on me, you know, I wasn’t aware of it.’ I said, ‘This is what I found out. It is true,’” DeLeon said in the Good Morning America interview.
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