Actor Ian McKellen recently toppled off stage during a London theater performance, and in addition to injuring himself, he fell onto a woman and she had to go to the hospital. 30-year-old Johanna Dart was in attendance of the Player Kings on Monday when McKellen, 86, fell off stage. She was sitting in the front row when McKellen fell.
She described the scary situation to the BBC: “As he tripped on that he built up momentum and flew head first into me in the audience. McKellen’s head hit Dart’s knee “quite hard,” she said.
A spokesperson for the Noel Coward Theatre, where the play took place, apologized to Dart and said it gave her support and assistance, though Dart said, “I felt a bit like I wasn’t really being checked in on.”