. The actress has revealed an attempt to recreate the classic Vicar Of Dibley scene, which saw her jump welly-first into a body-sized puddle, resulted in her having to use a cane and struggling to walk. Speaking in a one-woman show, she claimed producers of the Paul O'Grady chat show asked her to recreate the moment. Describing the idea as 'catastrophically misguided', she added: 'They constructed a 10ft-high hill out of scaffolding covered in AstroTurf. "The idea was that there was a long enough drop for me to disappear into. 'Then some bright spark had the idea of having a shallow silicon membrane containing two inches of water on top so that, as I jumped through, the water would splash up and look like a deep puddle. 'I went 10ft down and right on to the two crash mats. 'One leg twisted very awkwardly underneath me and I landed very heavily. "I heard the worst twanging noise you could ever imagine. 'I knew I was in trouble but I completed the sketch. 'I clearly felt like I'd rather die than admit weakness.' So what did Dawn do? She drove home five hours to Cornwall, bought herself a walking stick and quietly got on with life as best she could. What she didn't do was call InjuryLawyers4U.com. Nor did she sell her story to this newspaper, or (not) OK! magazine. By her own admission, she hasn't had 'two working legs' since the accident, but on she has Trojan'd. No money has been made, no compo claims sought.){kind=link}
DAWN FRENCH says one of the most famous scenes in TV led to her suffering a decade of crippling pain, dozens of injections and an operation.
And what did she do about it?
Grinned, bore it and didn’t utter a word (until now).
The actress has revealed an attempt to recreate the classic Vicar Of Dibley scene, which saw her jump welly-first into a body-sized puddle, resulted in her having to use a cane and struggling to walk.
Speaking in a one-woman show, she claimed producers of the Paul O’Grady chat show asked her to recreate the moment.