You may not know this but Dawn French recently underwent surgery. It happened in November and although some people were familiar with what she was going through, other people were not.
Now that she is recovering from surgery, she decided to show the world what she had to go through. She did so by sharing her surgery scar and talking about how the recovery was going after she had a major knee operation.
66-year-old Dawn French posted that picture from her living room as she was going through therapy. A small device was connected to her that allowed her to get the exercise she needed.
You could also see the scar from the surgery in the photo that ran up her knee and covered part of her leg. She had the operation because of an injury and due to rheumatoid arthritis.
She said: “It’s done. New knee is in. Now we start healing…” On X, formerly known as Twitter, she captioned an image of her leg in a cast: “New knee is in! [clapping emojis].”
After posting the update, people went online to wish her well and to express their love and concern for her.
Most people know Dawn French because of her part in the 1990s sitcom, The Vicar of Dibley. She also is a great standup comedian, but it was comedy that led her to be in so much pain.
Recently, she revealed that she experienced knee pain due to an accident that occurred when she was re-creating her famous puddle scene from The Vicar of Dibley. She was on Paul O’Grady’s chat show and jumped into a 10-foot hole with very little padding on the bottom.
She said: “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 silicone 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.”
Things didn’t go according to plan. In describing it further, she said: “But what was I falling onto? The answer is absolutely nothing. Except for 10ft below there were two very thin crash mats in a film studio with a flat concrete floor. Any fool would know this was a disaster in the making. Any fool but me.”
We wish her well and a speedy recovery.