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New York Post
13 hours ago
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- New York Post
Former Disney star Christy Carlson Romano reveals shocking details about nearly losing her eye after being shot in face
Christy Carlson Romano is speaking out about nearly losing an eye after she was shot in the face four months ago. During an appearance on the upcoming June 10 episode of the 'Not a Damn Chance!' podcast, via a sneak peek by People magazine, the 41-year-old former Disney star recalled the terrifying incident while she was shooting clay pigeons with her husband, Brendan Rooney, for his birthday. Asked how it happened, Romano explained she was not 'at liberty to say specifics,' according to People. The actress previously revealed on Instagram that she was 'hit in five places,' including below her eye. Romano shared details for the first time about what transpired. 'It's a birdshot that got sprayed in my direction by another party, and essentially it was within 200 feet, which means really fast and hot,' she told hosts Neen Williams and Frankland Lee. 'They weren't malicious,' Romano clarified. 'It wasn't aggravated assault. It's what happened.' The 'Even Stevens' star then emphasized the importance of gun safety and described her initial response. 4 Christy Carlson Romano sits in the hospital after being shot in the face at a party in February, 2025. 'I feel very out of body about it. … It's pretty wild,' she said. 'I'm shocked, and what goes through my head immediately is, 'Oh that's dope, I just got shot.' And then I go, 'Oh now I'm gonna die,'' she said. 'I take a knee. My husband witnessed it and was like, 'Hey are you hit?' because I didn't scream. I didn't do anything. I was just out of body.' Romano recalled she had a knee-jerk reaction upon being shot that stemmed from her time on the third season of the FOX reality TV series 'Special Forces: World's Toughest Test.' 4 The actress previously revealed on Instagram that she was 'hit in five places,' including below her eye. Christy Carlson Romano/Instagram In the show, celebrity contestants take on grueling military exercises and challenges under the direction of ex-Special Forces operatives. Romano explained that the contestants were trained to give a thumbs-up to let their fellow cast members know that they were OK during the series' perilous challenges. The 'Kim Possible' alum recalled that, out of habit, she gave Rooney a thumbs-up immediately after she was shot. 'He was like, 'Oh, you're good.' And I was like, 'No I'm hit.' He goes, 'Oh s—,'' Romano recalled of her husband's reaction. She remembered that Rooney rushed to her aid and had to restrain himself from retaliating against the other party. 4 Christy Carlson Romano and Hillary Duff in a scene from 'Cadet Kelly.' ©Disney Channel/Courtesy Everett Collection 'So, he's running to me and making sure I'm OK, and he's fighting the urge to hurt the person … but he's been practicing stoicism recently, and there was something in him,' Romano recalled. 'He was immediately into action mode, evaluating me and ran to get the car. 'I felt this huge rush that I'd never felt before where I was starting to get really woozy. I think it was shock.' Romano told the hosts she didn't experience any pain initially and described the thoughts that were running through her head, including her fears her children might be affected. The actress shares daughters Isabella, 7, and Sofia, 5, with Rooney. 'I was covered in blood from my forehead … and I said three things. I was like, 'Am I gonna die? Who's gonna take care of the girls? Is my career over?'' she recalled. Romano explained that she came close to being blinded or killed. 'If my head would've been tilted in any other direction, I would have been blind in my right eye. Or if I had turned my head, I could have gotten hit in a softer side of my skull, and I would have potentially been dead,' Romano said. 'It's still in my eye,' she said of the pellets from the shotgun. 'I have a fragment still in my forehead, and I have a fragment still behind my eye, which is 1 millimeter away from blinding me.' Romano previously explained on Instagram that the lead fragment behind her eye had to remain in her face because removing it could leave her blind. 4 Christy Carlson Roman poses for a picture during a family trip to Disneyland in May 2025. Christy Carlson Romano/Instagram The shot fragment lodged in her skull will also remain in place because doctors said it will expedite her healing process. During her podcast interview, Romano told hosts she put on a brave face at first and was making jokes about her medical crisis after she arrived at the hospital. 'In retrospect, I was trying to be funny and not cry because I wanted the people around me to feel more calm so that they could take better care of me,' Romano said. The former Broadway star admitted that it has been difficult to accept she is a 'gunshot survivor.' Clay pigeon shooting is an outdoor sport in which upside-down circular disks made of limestone and pitch used as targets are propelled into the air by machines called traps. Shooters use shotguns, with each shot projecting hundreds of small lead balls to hit the clay pigeons. The sport is typically not considered dangerous as long as safety measures are follow.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Special Forces' is grueling. How Christy Carlson Romano persevered (thanks to Kim Possible and 'Cadet Kelly').
Christy Carlson Romano is known for playing Ren Stevens in Even Stevens and commanding officer Jennifer Stone in Cadet Kelly, but it's her role as the teenage hero Kim Possible that the Disney Channel alum was drawing on while competing in Season 3 of Fox's Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. The reality show puts celebrities through rigorous training exercises inspired by the selection process for real Special Forces units. 'I remember seeing that first season [of Special Forces] and going, 'I would never do that show, ever,'' Romano, now a podcaster and content creator, tells Yahoo Life. Once she was asked to join the cast, however, her old alter ego kicked in. 'Part of what Kim Possible gave me in terms of inspiration to do this was this delusional idea that you can do anything,' says Romano. 'There have been other times in my life where she's kind of put that pathos into my head, and I've tried to follow it and live up to that sort of legacy of girl power.' See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. The actress, now a 40-year-old mom of two, had only three and a half weeks to train for the five-week challenge. She jumped out of a helicopter into open waters, unlocked a safe in a gas-filled room and even faced her fear of small spaces by being buried alive all before her exit from the show Wednesday. Here's what she learned along the way. With limited time to prepare for the show, Romano dove right into at-home training. She realized that as a mother of two daughters, who are 7 and 5 years old, it had been a long time since she put herself first. 'I've never been focused about myself,' she says. 'It's always about them, like, 'What are they eating?'' Her grueling new regimen, however, meant paying more attention to what she was eating. Romano committed herself to a high-protein diet and found supplements to complement her training. She also carved out time for workouts amid her responsibilities as a parent. 'I was working out three times a day — or as many times as I could — and just, like, living in the gym. But then also taking my kids to school,' she says. 'So I was fully, fully invested in the process.' Romano doesn't think of herself as an athlete, aside from dancing as a kid and completing a boot camp before filming Cadet Kelly. Luckily, her husband, Brendan Rooney, a Marine veteran, knows firsthand what military training looks like. He helped Romano get started — but it was up to her to see her workouts through. 'There would be nights when he would run with me up mountains with a weighted backpack on,' she says. 'I would try my best to keep going, when suddenly he would decide he was finished. He'd be like, 'Hey, I'm done, I'm gonna go to bed.' And I would run more on the treadmill.' The show's production team steered Romano in the right direction, telling her what goals she should be focused on during her workouts. '[I'd] get more and more meaningful every day towards getting stronger,' she says. 'I did what I could, honestly. When I look back, there's not any more training that I could have done with the time that they gave me.' Aside from running up mountains or swimming in her pool, Romano says that building mental strength was 'the most important' component both of her training and of getting through the show. 'Special Forces people are extremely locked in and intelligent, highly, highly skilled people. So you need to showcase your mental ability, not just your leadership skills or your physical resilience,' she says. The separation that she experienced from her children challenged that. 'I did miss Mother's Day [while filming] so I was definitely missing my kids,' she says. 'But at the same time, they knew that Mommy had been working towards something for all those weeks, and I wanted to make sure that I was fully present to honor the sacrifice that was being made.' Her husband's insistence that she make it through the whole five weeks of filming without quitting helped. 'My husband was like, 'You can't come home, I will not accept you coming home.' And I was like, 'OK, all right, I'm not coming home,'' says Romano. 'I just had that delusional belief in myself. … I was never going to quit.' While she challenged herself both before and during the show's filming, Romano admits she's been in recovery mode since. 'I told myself I'm not going back to work out unless I want to,' she says. 'So I think that I'll go back to working out when I'm good and ready, but I'm not gonna push myself.' Unlike her training for the show, she says her focus will be on 'finding the fun in athleticism again.' Romano took some time out of the spotlight after her Disney Channel days, but made a comeback with the content she was creating for YouTube and TikTok during the pandemic. She attracted a surge of followers in 2021, when she began opening up about the realities of being a child actress and the relationships she had with her former co-stars. Now, just a few years later, she feels ready to close that chapter and begin a new one. 'It is the 'now' era. It is the 'What have we learned?' era and 'How are we using it to grow fast?'' she says. 'I am 40, and to me, I never even thought about what I wanted to do at 40, because I had accomplished so much at a young age and so you stop having goals, really.' Her experience as a young star may not be relatable to most people, but she believes that her current adult journey is. 'You can get misled from what your personal goals can actually be, and you have to find your way back to what they are,' she says. 'Going on the show has given me a little bit of perspective on what my future goals are going to be.' Romano was prepared for a competition show, but she quickly learned that the only person she was up against was herself. While she initially aimed to make her husband proud, it was defying her own expectations that proved the most rewarding. 'I learned that I can do hard things and that I can believe in myself past just being an actress, being a public person,' she says. 'It's a very personal journey to have confidence in oneself that has nothing to do with other people's acceptance. On this journey, I was able to kind of just be with myself and my own limitations. So I proved to myself that I have this inner strength and that it's up to me to believe in myself.'
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Special Forces' is grueling. Christy Carlson Romano has persevered (thanks to Kim Possible and 'Cadet Kelly').
Christy Carlson Romano is known for playing Ren Stevens in Even Stevens and commanding officer Jennifer Stone in Cadet Kelly, but it's her role as the teenage hero Kim Possible that the Disney Channel alum has been drawing on while competing in Season 3 of Fox's Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. The reality show puts celebrities through rigorous training exercises inspired by the selection process for real Special Forces units. 'I remember seeing that first season [of Special Forces] and going, 'I would never do that show, ever,'' Romano, now a podcaster and content creator, tells Yahoo Life. Once she was asked to join the cast, however, her old alter ego kicked in. 'Part of what Kim Possible gave me in terms of inspiration to do this was this delusional idea that you can do anything,' says Romano. 'There have been other times in my life where she's kind of put that pathos into my head, and I've tried to follow it and live up to that sort of legacy of girl power.' See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. The actress, now a 40-year-old mom of two, had only three and a half weeks to train for the five-week challenge. So far, she's jumped out of a helicopter into open waters, unlocked a safe in a gas-filled room and even faced her fear of small spaces by being buried alive. Here's what she learned along the way. With limited time to prepare for the show, Romano dove right into at-home training. She realized that as a mother of two daughters, who are 7 and 5 years old, it had been a long time since she put herself first. 'I've never been focused about myself,' she says. 'It's always about them, like, 'What are they eating?'' Her grueling new regimen, however, meant paying more attention to what she was eating. Romano committed herself to a high-protein diet and found supplements to complement her training. She also carved out time for workouts amid her responsibilities as a parent. 'I was working out three times a day — or as many times as I could — and just, like, living in the gym. But then also taking my kids to school,' she says. 'So I was fully, fully invested in the process.' Romano doesn't think of herself as an athlete, aside from dancing as a kid and completing a boot camp before filming Cadet Kelly. Luckily, her husband, Brendan Rooney, a Marine veteran, knows at firsthand what military training looks like. He helped Romano get started — but it was up to her to see her workouts through. 'There would be nights when he would run with me up mountains with a weighted backpack on,' she says. 'I would try my best to keep going, when suddenly he would decide he was finished. He'd be like, 'Hey, I'm done, I'm gonna go to bed.' And I would run more on the treadmill.' The show's production team steered Romano in the right direction, telling her what goals she should be focused on during her workouts. '[I'd] get more and more meaningful every day towards getting stronger,' she says. 'I did what I could, honestly. When I look back, there's not any more training that I could have done with the time that they gave me.' Aside from running up mountains or swimming in her pool, Romano says that building mental strength was 'the most important' component both of her training and of getting through the show. 'Special Forces people are extremely locked in and intelligent, highly, highly skilled people. So you need to showcase your mental ability, not just your leadership skills or your physical resilience,' she says. The separation that she experienced from her children challenged that. 'I did miss Mother's Day [while filming] so I was definitely missing my kids,' she says. 'But at the same time, they knew that Mommy had been working towards something for all those weeks, and I wanted to make sure that I was fully present to honor the sacrifice that was being made.' Her husband's insistence that she make it through the whole five weeks of filming without quitting helped. 'My husband was like, 'You can't come home, I will not accept you coming home.' And I was like, 'OK, all right, I'm not coming home,'' says Romano. 'I just had that delusional belief in myself. … I was never going to quit.' While she challenged herself both before and during the show's filming, Romano admits she's been in recovery mode since. 'I told myself I'm not going back to work out unless I want to,' she says. 'So I think that I'll go back to working out when I'm good and ready, but I'm not gonna push myself.' Unlike her training for the show, she says her focus will be on 'finding the fun in athleticism again.' Romano took some time out of the spotlight after her Disney Channel days, but made a comeback with the content she was creating for YouTube and TikTok during the pandemic. She attracted a surge of followers in 2021, when she began opening up about the realities of being a child actress and the relationships she had with her former co-stars. Now, just a few years later, she feels ready to close that chapter and begin a new one. 'It is the 'now' era. It is the 'What have we learned?' era and 'How are we using it to grow fast?'' she says. 'I am 40, and to me, I never even thought about what I wanted to do at 40, because I had accomplished so much at a young age and so you stop having goals, really.' Her experience as a young star may not be relatable to most people, but she believes that her current adult journey is. 'You can get misled from what your personal goals can actually be, and you have to find your way back to what they are,' she says. 'Going on the show has given me a little bit of perspective on what my future goals are going to be.' Romano was prepared for a competition show, but she quickly learned that the only person she was up against was herself. While she initially aimed to make her husband proud, it was defying her own expectations that proved the most rewarding. 'I learned that I can do hard things and that I can believe in myself past just being an actress, being a public person,' she says. 'It's a very personal journey to have confidence in oneself that has nothing to do with other people's acceptance. On this journey, I was able to kind of just be with myself and my own limitations. So I proved to myself that I have this inner strength and that it's up to me to believe in myself.'
