Martha Stewarthas survived a lot in her four decade long career, including not one, not two, butthreelighting strikes!
“I mean, it’s like, crazy,” Stewart told DeGeneres, joking, “I think it actually is good for you. If it doesn’t kill you, I think it’s good for you!”
Her revelation came as she played a game of Two Truths and a Lie with DeGeneres.
At least two of the three instances happened while Stewart was at home. “Once, it came out of my water faucet,” she recalled. “I was leaning against an iron sink. I saw the lightning go down the pipe out in my garden and then it came back up through the water and hit my right in my stomach — threw me on the floor! My[ex-husband Andrew]found me, I was alive but not very comfortable.”
The second time didn’t come from Stewart’s sink but through her window. “A lightning bolt came through my skylight in my house,” she said, teasing, “I just attract electricity. I’m so powerful.”
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The deadliest is a direct strike, which are not as common and most often occurs to victims who are in open areas. In those strikes, victims can experience burns on their skin as a portion of the current moves over the skin’s surface (called flashover), but the greatest concern is the portion of the current that moves through the body’s cardiovascular and nervous systems.
Other strikes include side flash (when lightning strikes a taller object near the victim, like a tree, and a portion of the current jumps to the victim); streamers (when offshoots of the main lightning strike, developed as the downward-moving leader approaches the ground, strike), and conduction (when, like what happened to Stewart, lightning strikes something and then travels through metal surfaces like wires or plumbing, striking anyone in contact with those).
The U.S. has averaged 43 reported lightning fatalities per year, the NWS reported, analyzing 30 years of day. Typically, only about 10 percent of those are killed, leaving 90 percent with degrees of disability.
Elsewhere in herEllenappearance, Stewart also opened up about her dating life.
Though she said back in December thatshe’s got a special someonein her life right now, it’s clear that’s not Sir Anthony Hopkins. She told DeGeneres that they dated but that she broke up with him because she “couldn’t stop thinking of him as Hannibal Lector,” his cannibal character fromSilence of the Lambs.
She also revealed she had once been asked to hostSaturday Night Liveand that saying no was “my biggest regret.”
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source: people.com
