The Personal Lives Of The Walking Dead Cast Are Full Of Tragedy

May 2024 · 1 minute read

Jon Bernthal's unpredictable Shane Walsh kept his The Walking Dead visit relatively short and its ending suitably bloody, as Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes stabbed him in the chest, and Grimes' son, Carl (Chandler Riggs), gunned down his reanimated body. Bernthal, of course, then capitalized his tough-guy image and acting chops by moving on to even bigger things, such as the lead role on Marvel and Netflix's The Punisher

However, some challenges in life affect even the best and toughest stars. In 2018, Bernthal told Men's Health that his hyper-masculine image was of precisely zero help when his daughter, Adeline, had a serious health scare. In November 2017, Bernthal was riding the wave of his The Punisher fame, when the 2-year-old Adeline had an encephalitis-induced seizure and went into a coma. Bernthal was shooting the Ryan Gosling movie First Man at the time but dropped out in a flash and hurried to the hospital. There, he became a self-admitted panicky mess while his wife — a trauma nurse — held everything together. "People talk about bravery like fake macho bravery, but my wife didn't flinch," Bernthal says. "What I saw in my wife was courage and beauty unlike I'd ever seen."

Fortunately, the story ended on a positive note. Adeline woke after three days and made a full recovery. 

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