10 celebrities who cheated death & how it happened (+Photos)

5. Michael J Fox

Talk about a real life nightmare. On the set of filming ‘Back to the Future Part 3’, Michael J Fox almost accidentally hanged himself. The scene he was filming was when Michael’s character, Marty has a noose around his neck and Doc has to save him. During filming a box was used for Michael to stand on, however the sense of urgency and realism couldn’t be portrayed so the director requested he do the scene without the box – which he eventually did.

Unfortunately for Michael, on the seventh take he missed the cue for where his hand was supposed to be and ended up passing out for 30 seconds. Luckily for Michael someone finally realized that he was no longer acting and had actually passed out. That’s the stuff nightmares are made of!