After nearly losing his career due to a vlog that exploited suicide, Logan Paul now says he nearly lost his life.
In an unrelated incident, Paul shared on Twitter this morning that he’s lucky to be alive following a skydiving mishap in which his primary parachute failed to deploy. As a result, the high-octane vlogger says he had to cut it aside to make way for a reserve. “I can tell you — the feeling of the blue reserve parachute opening and functioning properly was miraculous,” he tweeted, alongside a picture of the apparatus. “This has never happened to another student before at this school.”
here’s a photo of my empty pack after i had to cut away my main parachute bc it didn’t open
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i can tell you — the feeling of the blue reserve parachute opening & functioning properly was miraculous
this has never happened to another student before at this school. LP lives on 🙂 pic.twitter.com/p6if9Gg5hn
— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) February 2, 2018
While it’s unclear when exactly the incident occurred, it arrives at a time when Paul is in the midst of some serious self-reflection. In an interview earlier this week on Good Morning America, he called the widespread online condemnation of a January vlog that cavalierly showed a hanged man’s dead body “the hardest time of my life.” At the end of the day, however, Paul believes that the controversy “happened for a reason” — so that he can learn more about the plight of suicide and lend a hand to prevention efforts, including in the form of a $1 million donation.
In the face of both the suicide controversy and his near-death experience, Paul has reiterated his intent to persevere. “LP lives on,” he tweeted yesterday with a smile.
