She watched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels repeatedly, laughing each time as if she hadn't just seen the movie and couldn't remember that it had been one of her favorites. She could not recall much of her pre-injury life nor what she had done only a few moments before.Īfter Kazdin returned home, she kept telling a visiting friend that she needed to call her father, something she had just done three times in a row. Worse, she couldn't remember basic details of her life.Īt the hospital, she was told she had sustained a concussion that caused amnesia, wiping out both her long-term and short-term memory. When she regained consciousness, she was in an ambulance racing to a New Jersey hospital, dressed in a cheerleading outfit. The stunt went horribly wrong, and Kazdin crashed to the floor. It involved her being tossed into the air and caught by other actors. Partway through filming, the director ordered a stunt the cast was unprepared for. Cole Kazdin was a writer and performer in New York City in her twenties when she was playing a cheerleader in a TV pilot.

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