The Bold and the Beautiful character Brooke didn’t draw blood when she struck Katie recently on the show. Alas, the same can’t be said for poor Scott Clifton, who took a blow to the head and has some stitches above his eye!
The Bold and Beautiful on the inside
“WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT!” Clifton, who plays Liam Spencer on B&B, began an Instagram post in which he detailed how he injured his eye and how the show responded to his malady. “Some of you may have noticed the stitches above Liam’s eyebrows in Friday’s and yesterday’s episodes of #boldandbeautiful (along with a few playful lines of dialogue between him and Wyatt about it).
“Well, sometimes life imitates art, and Liam no longer enjoys the monopoly on head trauma,” the three-time Daytime Emmy-winner quipped, referring to Liam’s head injuries that he suffered a while back.
“The night before we were set to shoot these scenes, I’d just come off of a particularly stressful day managing a crisis to do with my 81-year-old mother (everyone’s fine), couldn’t sleep, and got up in the middle of the night—a little too quickly, apparently—to use the bathroom,” the actor adds. “But something wasn’t quite right, and I could tell I was about to faint. That’s the last thing I remember. I woke up slumped over the edge of the bathtub, upper body mangled inside of it, with my feet draped outside.
“Blood everywhere, a splitting headache, and an impregnable determination to claw my way to a mirror and see just how much extra work I’d created for the B&B makeup department in a few short hours,” he shared.
Comings & Goings, and Coming Back Later
“And that’s when I noticed the giant hole in my face,” Clifton adds. “Spent the night in the company of some lovely ER doctors who fast-tracked me into a room, scanned me, stitched me, and gently admonished [me] for thinking I could let a makeup brush anywhere near my face for weeks. Oh, and also, I should prepare myself for some temporary memory loss and cognitive sluggishness from the concussion.
“When our phenomenal producers @rachelaherman and @caseykas got word a few hours later,” Cliton says, “they told me to stay home and rest while they rewrote the scenes to be taped the following week—leading up to which they would constantly check on me.”
Not surprisingly, the B&B family reached out to their injured pal to check on him. “The next day, my phone was flooded with the most loving and concerned texts from the cast and crew, and that’s really the reason I’m posting about this: I am so sickeningly lucky to be a part of this team, this family, this wholly benevolent daytime empire,” Clifton says, gratefully.
“Thank you to everyone at Bold & Beautiful for your kindness, care, grace, patience and resourcefulness—from our incredible makeup team,” Clifton concludes, “to our steadfast on-site medic, to the producers, directors, and @theedarinbrooks for putting up with this newfound ugly mug. ❤️.”
Soap Central wishes Clifton a continued recovery!
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Edited by Michael Maloney