Below Deck’s Malia White Recalls Screaming in the Hospital After Her Horrific Scooter Accident – ‘My Helmet Had a Crack’
Malia White from Below Deck Mediterranean went into greater detail about the intense pain she suffered following her horrific scooter accident in Spain. While fans knew the accident was extremely serious and she had broken bones and severe road rash, she never described what happened when she arrived at the hospital for treatment.
Malia White from ‘Below Deck Med’ said doctors had to scrub debris from her wounds
White estimated that she was going about 70 miles per hour on the Vespa scooter when one of her deckhands accidentally clipped her tire and sent her soaring. She recalled being calm immediately following the accident but warned her team she was going into shock. Then she described what happened when she arrived at the hospital.
“Honestly, that was the worst part,” she said about the accident on the Hollywood Raw podcast. “Like I speak broken Spanish. [The medical professional] was speaking broken English. And basically, she brought the tub in. And she was like, ‘I’m was so sorry, this is going to hurt.’ And I’m like, ‘What? What’s going on?’ And she just takes this sponge and like this brush, and she just starts scrubbing all of my [wounds].”
She recalls screaming from the pain in the hospital
White reminded listeners that her wounds covered most of her arms and legs. “I had wounds that were like massive,” she recalled. Then she shared how the doctors cleaned her wounds. “And it was pure iodine. And I just started screaming. She gave me a popsicle stick to like bite down on. I was like, ‘No, please stop!'”
The pain was horrific but White said they couldn’t numb her or give her anything for the pain at the time. “That was the other thing,” she said. “They didn’t give me any pain medication, and I was like, ‘Why? Please give me pain medication.’ She’s like ‘We can’t yet.’ Because they had to do scans and everything you know, which I understand.”
Thankfully White didn’t suffer any long-term infections, but she had broken bones and a concussion. “No, no infections. I was concussed pretty badly, but nothing long-term.” White ended up flying home to Florida to recover and spent a considerable amount of time healing. Only recently was she permitted to return to work.
Malia White’s helmet even cracked
When White hit the pavement, she hit asphalt and gravel to create the massive road rash. “It was like asphalt, but there was a patch of gravel when my friend like trying to swerve,” she recalled. “So loose gravel in it. But it was asphalt, and I just kind of felt like flew and just my body just did a bunch of barrel rolls on asphalt.”
The impact was so intense, White said her helmet cracked. “My helmet had a crack all the way down the middle, just split,” she said. “Luckily, I had a face shield.”
White told Showbiz Cheat Sheet the recovery period was hard because she’s not one to sit still for a long period of time. She finally went for a run before her broken toes were fully healed and admitted it was painful. “It was [painful] but to me, I just can’t sit,” she said about not being able to be active. “Not working out is kind of worse for me.”
