Paul Young says recovery following leg injury has âtaken a long timeâ
Young noticed his leg â??was in a slightly weird positionâ?? after he slipped and fell on some steps.
Musician Paul Young says his recovery from a leg injury has âtaken a long timeâ.
The 1980s pop star, 69, previously revealed to the Mirror that he had fallen down some steps, suffering fractures âso close to each other, there was a danger of the leg snappingâ.
Reflecting on the accident, he told ITVâs This Morning: âThe recovery has taken a long time, but I think Iâve got to a point now where I look a bit saddle sore, hard day on the saddle.â
Paul Young has spoken about his recovery from a leg injury (David Jensen/PA)
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Young, known for hits including Wherever I Lay My Hat (Thatâs My Home), appeared on the show to talk about his tour, From No Parlez to The Secret Of Association â An Intimate Evening With Paul Young, which begins in April and involves him combining conversation with acoustic versions of songs.
âIâve done a reshuffle on the show so thereâs a few different things being talked about in the show,â he said.
âBecause what I do is I tell stories behind things that happen, you know, people might see it on TV. I go, âYeah, but how that happened was this and that, or something happened on that particular dayâ.
âSo we tell stories and thereâs a lot of things on the road that happened to you that you donât think is going to happen to you as a musician, but they do, and so theyâre like backstories behind the end thing that people see.â
Youngâs accident happened in September and he was subsequently taken to Santorini General Hospital in Karterados, according to the Mirror.
âI put my foot on the first step, my leg slipped out from underneath me. I fell and my leg cracked as soon as I hit the stepâ, he told the publication.
âOnce Iâd gone down, I couldnât stop. There was no handrail, so nothing to hold on to. I just thought, âIâve lost controlâ.
âI fell down to three or four more steps, fracturing my leg again and again. It was a multi-fracture.
âWhen I came to a stop, I looked down and my leg was in a slightly weird position, underneath my bottom.
âI thought âI donât like that. My leg shouldnât be like thatâ, so I tried to straighten it up and thatâs when the pain startedâ.â
âAll the multi-fractures were right at the top in the femur, the legâs biggest bone, by the ball joint so it was very worrying,â he added.
âThe fractures were so close to each other, there was a danger of the leg snapping. The only medication they had was paracetamol.
âI was screaming out all the time and most of the time I had my eyes shut because the pain was terrible.â
Young tied the knot with his fiancee Lorna in 2024.
Young found solo fame following his work with bands the Q-Tips and Kat Kool & The Kool Kats â and has since gone on to front Los Pacaminos.