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Sarah was left with life-threatening injuries and fractures to two of her spinal vertebrae.

"There was evidence of cut marks on the neck vertebrae," she said.

He later pulled out of the theatre's run to recover from breaking his wrist and chipping one of his vertebrae, and said in September he was taking the rest of the year off.

A fracture in the part of the bone that links the vertebrae together can become so big that a segment of the spine can’t be held in place.

Annamarie broke three vertebrae in her spine when she fell down a flight of stairs, leaving her without feeling from the chest down.