7. Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass was a wonderful R&B singer and suffered a terrible car accident in 1982. Pendergrass rose to fame as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes and enjoyed a successful solo career during the disco craze. But one fateful night he suffered paralysis when he he was driving a transsexual model, Tenika Watson, home. Watson, a nightclub singer and rumored prostitute was in the passenger seat and somehow “distracted” Pendergrass as he was driving. Watson (born John Watson) had already undergone a sex-change operation by then and was working as nude model. She later described her relationship with Pendergrass as “flirty.” Pendergrass would go on to perform until 2008 despite the paralysis and passed away in 2010. He tried to slide the incident under the rug until his death.
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