By Mallory Mattingly
THE BLIND SIDE actor Quinton Aaron transformed his life for the better when he lost 170 pounds after a near-death experience.
Aaron spoke with Fox News Digital and revealed that the near-death experience was his “come-to-Jesus kind of moment.”
“I was at this waterfront in Mandeville, Louisiana,” Aaron said. “This is like during COVID, 2021ish. And I used to always go there and sit and just meditate, listen to the water and stuff.”
“There’s one day I’m sitting there on the wall, and I’m just listening to the water vibe, and then I wake up underwater,” he remembered. “So I literally passed out, fell off the wall, and it was like a 12-foot drop, but the water was only three feet deep. I didn’t know that at the time. Well, thank God it was three feet deep, because I can’t swim.”
Aaron then shared that a voice was calling out to him under the water, telling him to stand up.
“I literally woke up underwater,” he said. “I didn’t have a chance to take a breath and brace myself. When I woke up, I was submerged, and I just felt this pain on the back of my neck and shoulder from going down. But while I’m underwater, I hear this voice say, ‘Stand up.’ And so I stand, like I start trying to get to my feet. The water is pushing me into the rocks, and I’m kinda like hitting my head up against something. I don’t know what it was, but I can’t see, because the water’s dirty brown.”
After that moment, Aaron was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he underwent multiple tests, which ultimately revealed “that he had an infection in one of his big toes that had spread to his bone.”
“I was in the hospital for a few weeks getting IV antibiotics,” Aaron revealed. “I almost lost my toe, but thankfully I didn’t. They just cut a piece of it off, and it had to heal.”
It was in this moment of life that Aaron had a moment with God that changed the trajectory of his entire life.
“God visited me, and He was like, ‘Do you want to die?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And I didn’t know who I’m answering, but I hear this voice talking to me. And I said, ‘No.’ And He goes, ‘So what are you gonna do?’ And I said, ‘I need help.’”
“From that moment on, I couldn’t stand the taste of sugar,” he continued. “It’s not permanent, because today I eat sugar again, but at that time, when I said, ‘I need help,’ it was like He knew what the help was, and He just erased it from my memory.”
“I stopped overeating,” he added. “I started intermittent fasting, and I cut out sugars, and so with just those three things, the weight just started dropping off tremendously.”
Now that his story is public, Aaron wants to turn it into a movie or even a book.
“Look at this as a brief table of contents in my life over the past 17years. There’s a story there and I’m looking for someone to help me tell it,” he wrote on his social media.
Aaron is best known for playing Michael Oher in THE BLIND SIDE, which won Movieguide®’s Epiphany Prize at the Movieguide® Awards.
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