Caitlin Beadles Shares Her Emotional Story Of Being Pronunced Dead
You may already know Caitlin Beadles as Justin Bieber’s ex-girlfriend and best friend. Now it’s time to meet the real Caitlin — a courageous 16-year-old Georgia girl who survived a tragic boating accident. After receiving 6000 stitches in one leg, undergoing countless surgeries and over a year of grueling physical therapy, Caitlin’s telling her inspiring story for the first time to JSYK. Check back every afternoon this week to read about Caitlin’s painful experience and find out what she’s learned about life and strength in her own words. I just started my first year in high school and decided to spend a weekend at my friend’s lake house with seven other friends in August 2009. We were having a blast. I kept saying to myself, ‘This year will be amazing.’ We spent the first day out on the lake blaring music, tubing, knee boarding, wake boarding, and just having fun — just putting your life on hold, forgetting about everything, except what was going on that very moment. Two of my friends and I were riding the Jet Ski, while the rest of the crew was about to go out on the lake in a canoe that would be pulled by a boat. We were having a blast, jumping waves, doing donuts, and flipping everyone off the Jet Ski. We all flipped the Jet Ski over and were in the water complaining about how badly the water cramming up our ears hurt, and how we had whiplash. Thinking that was bad, we couldn’t imagine what was yet to come. It’s funny how we will stub a toe, or have a headache and …
