Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's Alfonso Ribeiro issues update on daughter's emergency surgery
22.05.2023 - 16:27
/ ok.co.uk
Alfonso Ribeiro has shared an update on his daughter Ava's progress after she fell off her scooter and had to be rushed to hospital for emergency surgery.The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor said he expected little Ava to be in for a "long" recovery after she fell and scraped skin from her arm, shoulder and face.The 51-year-old I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! alumnus said the nasty accident happened just one day before his youngest daughter celebrated her fourth birthday.
Posting a photo of her injuries to his social media account, he praised his daughter, saying he was "so proud of how brave my baby girl was during the surgery." Speaking on Live With Kelly and Mark, the one-time Strictly Come Dancing guest judge said what was supposed to be a weekend of happy celebrations turned into a "very stressful" few days after Ava fell off her sit-down scooter. "On Thursday, unfortunately, my daughter got injured and had to have emergency surgery," he said.
"So it was a very stressful weekend. She fell and had basically road rash on her face and arm, and so they had to scalpel off all the skin." The recovery from the accident will be a "long process" for the little girl, he told the show.
Alfonso, who played Carlton Banks alongside Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the mid 1990s, said his wife Angela had a premonition about their young daughter getting hurt in the lead-up to her birthday. Posting on her Instagram page, Angela revealed: "I woke up and had a vision/motherly intuition of Ava ending up in the ER today.
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