For many celebrities life can be a dream, critical acclaim, a world of adoring fans, and unimaginable wealth. But in a split second... More >
For many celebrities life can be a dream, critical acclaim, a world of adoring fans, and unimaginable wealth. But in a split second everything can disappear. These celebrities' true stories should be obituaries, tragic endings to phenomenal lives. Except for one thing: every single one of them lived to tell the tale.

Type-1 diabetic, Bret Michaels experiences a brain hemorrhage while recovering from an emergency appendectomy; Mindy McCready is viciously beaten by the father of her child; and Ty Murray miraculously survives being trampled by a bull.