da p3nnylan3 il ven ago 19, 2005 10:23 am
Brian Harvey optimistic after accident
Last updated 08 August 2005
Brian Harvey has spoken to Radio 1 about his horrific car accident.
He has metal rods holding his pelvis together and is 100% dependent. His girlfriend, model Emma B, does absolutely everything for him.
They're hoping once the rods come out in a couple of weeks, he'll make a full recovery and be able to walk again although it will be a long process.
Brian was in a surprisingly upbeat mood when he spoke to us. Prior to the accident, he made two suicide attempts after his nan died as he was flying out to take part in 'I'm a Celebrity...'.
Brian's had a chequered life and admits he made a huge mistake years ago when he revealed he took ecstasy but says after all that's gone on - he wants to move on:
"I should have had more of a brain to realise where it would have gone. But that was just the start of a long chain of events. Since then it was bankruptcies and machete attacks."
"All those things, when they happen to you, it's going to affect you, I'm not superman, it did affect me."
"It's taken something like this to make me realise that if you're alive, you're lucky to be alive. I was in hospital and said to the doctor, 'I'm the unluckiest bloke I know'."
"He came in the next day and said, 'You know you said to me yesterday you're unlucky? 99.9% of people with these injuries would have died'. I said, 'You know what, I can't be that unlucky then'."
Brian also has plans to write a book which he reckons will be a cut above the average celebrity tell-all book:
"I think I need to. I think I've had so many different events happening in my life over a short period. I think it needs documenting. There's been a lot now."
"The book would be more than 'We had this one gig at Wembley Arena and all the rest of it' - load of rubbish with a lot of pictures thrown in."
"There's an actual story there. I've probably lived the life of an 80 year old man. I probably have. There's been a lot there."
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