Kristin Chenoweth’s Hair Extensions Saved Her Life — Yes, Really

Whoever said a good hair day isn’t a matter of life or death was sorely mistaken. Don’t believe us? Just ask Kristin Chenoweth who credits her hair extensions as the key factor in surviving a near-fatal lighting equipment accident. 

Back in 2012, while filming the TV series The Good Wife, Kristin recalls taking a snack break to buy a Slurpee at a local 7-Eleven, only to wake up in hospital sometime after (sans Slurpee).

“I heard like a flagpole sound,” she recalled during a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live. “I heard ‘we’re losing the light’ and I heard action, and I woke up at Bellevue hospital.”

“[The lighting equipment] hit me in the face and then threw me into a curb,” she explained.

The damage? “A seven-inch skull fracture, a hairline crack and fracture [in her nose] and cracked teeth and ribs.” Though the accident has left some “long-standing injuries,” Kristin reveals that the outcome was almost a lot worse.

“My hair extensions saved my life,” she said.

“My doctor said, ‘what are these metal things?’ and I said, ‘they’re hair extensions’ and he said, ‘they saved your life.'”

According to Kristin’s doctor, her hair extensions created a barrier between the fallen lighting equipment and her skull which “made the hairline fracture go together.” In other words, they prevented her head from completely splitting open then and there.

Keeping an otherwise heavy situation light, Kristin joked, “anybody who wants to get hair extensions should, for your health.”

There we have it, on top of increased fullness and extra length, hair extensions can now add ‘skull protector’ to its long list of benefits.

Have you ever had hair extensions? If not, does this make you more open to giving them a go?