Mallory Edens, Aaron Rodgers’ rumored girlfriend, revealed that she survived a near-death experience.
In a post on her Instagram, Edens recounted the event, which occurred a decade ago after she fell off her horse and suffered a severe brain injury.
“Today is a big life milestone for me,” Edens wrote to her 225,000-plus followers.
“10 years ago today, I fell off my horse, got kicked in the head on the way down, and woke up in the ICU with four skull fractures and a traumatic brain injury that changed my life.
“I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about the kid who woke up in that hospital bed, terrified she would never run a lap around a track or read a book again. How scary it was to lose everything I thought I knew about myself at that age in the blink of an eye.
“The 19-year-old me, who found herself curled in the fetal position on the floor of a neurologist’s waiting room a few years later, in the middle of an episode of trigeminal neuralgia and in the kind of physical pain that escapes language. What I was learning about myself then, even though I didn’t know it at the time.”
“I’m so grateful for my borrowed decade. I’m grateful for this healthy body and healthy brain. I’m grateful to know the feeling of impermanence in my bones – it feels like life. I’m grateful for my old lady soul. I’m so excited for the next ten. I wouldn’t change a thing. It’s all gravy, it always has been.”
Edens is the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks owner Wes Edens, who is the co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and founder of New Fortress Energy.