Jamie Lynn Spears details daughter Maddie having last rites read post-ATV accident
Jamie Lynn Spears’ daughter Maddie had her last rites read after her near-fatal ATV accident in February 2017.
The “Sweet Magnolias” star, 35, told People on Wednesday that the then-8-year-old, who was in a coma, “physically sit[ting] up in all her restraints and tubes” when the priest arrived at her hospital room.
“I [was] screaming for the doctors, like ‘Come in here now!’” the actress recalled. “Even the priest was like, ‘I’ve never seen anything like what’s happening.’”
Spears continued, “I knew she was in there and felt all of us praying. We were given a miracle, and I don’t take it for granted.”
The “Zoey 101” alum shared more details with the outlet of her eldest child surviving “against all odds.”
She remembered witnessing the ATV Polaris accident, which took place at her husband Jamie Watson’s Louisiana home.
“We were watching her, and we still don’t quite know if she was dodging a dog or what it was,” the former Nickelodeon star said. “She went in the water and me, my father-in-law and my husband ran as fast as we could to go jump in to get her out, but she was stuck.”
Maddie being pulled out of the water by emergency responders minutes later was “really not a sight anybody wants to see,” Spears told the outlet.
“At that point, she was not breathing. We thought that she had passed,” the “Special Forces” alum explained, noting that paramedics ultimately “got a pulse.”
During the little one’s two-day coma, Spears decided to have another baby since Maddie had been “begging for a sibling.”
Sure enough, Maddie asked about expanding the family when she woke up from her coma.
Spears and Watson, 54, conceived daughter Ivey, now 8, a few months later, and the infant arrived in April 2018.
“We always say [Maddie] went up to heaven to go pick out her little sister,” Spears said. “Ivey’s like, ‘So you did all of that to find me?’”
Looking back on the freak accident, Maddie said, “Seeing everybody rally around me, it made me realize how blessed I am. It really made me so grateful for every day.”
The teenager graduated from high school last month and is set to play softball at the University of Southern Mississippi.
