Jamie Lynn Spears had daughter Maddie's last rites read after crash left her in a coma
Topics: Jamie Lynn Spears, Celebrity
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Topics: Jamie Lynn Spears, Celebrity
Jamie Lynn Spears is opening up about a traumatic 2017 accident involving her daughter, which left the child in a coma and prompted family members to prepare for the worst, including having last rites read.
The Sweet Magnolias star, 35, and her daughter Maddie, now 18, shared details on the ATV accident that almost claimed the youngster’s life.
Jamie Lynn welcomed her first child, on June 19, 2008 aged 17 after a highly publicised pregnancy, with her then-partner, Casey Aldridge.
Maddie was just eight years old when she took a sharp turn on the vehicle and ended up underwater in the pond on the family’s property in Fluker, Louisiana.
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"We were watching her, and we still don't quite know if she was dodging a dog or what it was," Jamie Lynn told PEOPLE. "She went in the water and me, my father-in-law and my husband [Jamie Watson] ran as fast as we could to go jump in to get her out, but she was stuck under the ATV."
Jamie Lynn’s mother-in-law phoned 911 and an ambulance arrived in minutes to free Maddie from beneath the ATV. “At that point, she was not breathing. We thought that she had passed.”
But Jamie Lynn heard a firefighter say they ‘got a pulse’ and Maddie was airlifted to a hospital. She spent two days in a coma and a priest was called to administer her last rites.
"He comes in, and she physically sits up in all her restraints and tubes," Jamie Lynn recalls.. "I'm screaming for the doctors, like ‘Come in here now!' Even the priest was like, 'I've never seen anything like what's happening.' I knew she was in there and felt all of us praying. We were given a miracle, and I don't take it for granted."
A few months after Maddie came out of her coma, Jamie Lynn found out she was pregnant with her second daughter Ivey, eight, whom she welcomed in 2018.
"We always say she went up to heaven to go pick out her little sister," Jamie Lynn shared. "Ivey's like, 'So you did all of that to find me?'"
Maddie made a full recovery and almost 10 years later, she is now preparing to study health sciences and play softball at the University of Southern Mississippi in August.
“Seeing everybody rally around me, it made me realise how blessed I am. It really made me so grateful for every day,” she said.