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Thomas Haden Church quits bull riding
Published Thursday, Apr 1 2010, 05:22 BST | By Aaron Broverman
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According to WENN, the Sideways star was bucked from the bull he was riding and broke his pelvis after weeks of training.
"When I was a kid I was like, 'Bull rider guys are the most courageous humans on earth!' So then I went to a bull riding school and I broke my pelvis the last day of the school," he explained.
The 49-year-old said that he decided that the rodeo sport was too risky for his acting career.
"I had to go straight from the school to the airport to fly to New York to do some publicity stuff. And as soon as I got off the plane to New York I couldn't even stand up. I was like, 'You might as well take me to Lenox [Hill] hospital. Something was broken in my core region. My buttocks had swollen to French loaves of bread!'" he added.
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