Bret Michaels links his last year brain hemorrhage with the 2009 Tony Awards ceremony scenery piece collapse, which he claims caused some serious head injuries leading to the critical trauma. In a sweeping development, the singer filed a lawsuit against CBS and 2009 Tony Awards ceremony organizers, stating that he believed the incident ended up in the critical brain hemorrhage. The singer was smacked by a piece of scenery backstage after his performance in the show. He was immediately taken to the hospital with bleeding lips and a busted nose.
According to x17Online:
Bret Michaels has filed suit against the Tony awards for a 2009 accident that he believes caused the nearly fatal brain hemorrhage he subsequently suffered. Michaels, who performed the opening number of the show with his band Poison and the cast of Rock of Ages, was flattened by a piece of scenery that dropped as he was walking offstage. The Tony awards blamed Bret for ???missing his mark,??? which at the time left Michaels with a broken nose and bruised lip.
In fact, Bret Michaels narrowly escaped from the face of death following the brain hemorrhage and a warning stroke in April 2010. The singer had expressed dismay about the Tony Awards organizers within days after the tragic incident. In the lawsuit, Michaels complained that he was never warned that the scenery piece would be falling down. Meanwhile, CBS turned down the request for a response, because it kept a policy that it would not talk about a lawsuit outside the court.
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