Famous Celebrities Who Barely Escaped Death

Ryan Reynolds

Before he was a father, Reynolds was a little bit of a risk-taker. He went sky-diving one day when he was seventeen years old. His parachute didn’t work though, and he had to go to the reserve. He later said that he “got down on the ground, removed [his] urine-spackled jumpsuit, threw it at the guy, and got in [his] car and drove extremely slowly home.”

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