AC Bonifacio figured in a motocycle accident in Thailand. ABS-CBN News
Kapamilya star AC Bonifacio is out of the K-pop thriller project "Perfect Girl" after she got into a freak accident in Thailand.
Bonifacio has been in Bangkok for nearly a month, filming and rehearsing for her movie. On her day off, she took a motorcycle taxi to a weekend market, but it slipped, causing her to fall on her right shoulder.
“It was a motorcyle accident, we slipped. It wasn’t anything crazy,” she narrated. “We just slipped. I blocked my fall with my arm. Kasi if not, it could have been worse.”
The second it happened, “I tried to get up right away, and I coudn’t.”
“I thought I was fine, I thought I was okay, I was happy that my hand was moving. I was cautious, I was able to talk to people,” she continued. “I was in extreme pain. No blood, no scratches.”
After the tests and surgery, Bonifacio found out she had a fractured humerus." It was a clean break. It was a break na the orthos are saying na I’m lucky to have," she said.
“I was in shock 'coz it has never happened to me before. I was concerned about the movie, everyone was concerned about my health.”
She was in touch with her mother throughout her ordeal and the production team also attended to her. “I did go through surgery already. The people in Thailand, the movie people, did take care of me. Didn’t happen on the set, this was just a normal day. They took care of me and gave me my medical attention,” she said.
Following the accident, the production team decided to remove her from the project. Several weeks of scenes have already been filmed, but with Bonifacio set to be replaced, the team will need to recast her role and reshoot those scenes.
“We’ve all decided na it’s better for me to prioritize healing. We tried every single possible way on how we can make it work,” the actress said.
How do she feel about it?
“It sucks of course, anybody who is doing their dream role. Hindi naman po 'yan na kinick-out lang ako. We had so many discussions, we tried so many different things on how it would work with my arm but the final decision is it just won't work,” she said.
A steel plate has been inserted in her fractured right arm and will take six weeks to heal. After that, Bonifacio will need to go through therapy and it will all depend how fast her body will recuperate and heal.
Bonifacio is back home and is part of ABS-CBN’s upcoming series "Roja."
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