X Factor winner on crutches for months after suffering ‘devastating’ injury
The injury happened while playing football.
The X Factor winner Myles Stephenson has revealed the serious injury he received while playing football that sent him to hospital.
The singer won the reality competition series in 2017 with his R&B group Rak-Su and has gone onto appear in shows like I’m A Celebrity in 2019.
The 33-year-old took to his Instagram stories earlier this week to tell his 483,000 followers that he had ‘ruptured his Achilles’ that would leave him in crutches.
‘Only gone and ruptured my Achilles haven’t I. I’ve realised how stressful the next few months are going to be on crutches. Work, family, simple things like tidying [and] washing. I am not looking forward to it,’ Myles said on Instagram.
The caption came alongside a snap of his heavily bandaged leg.
According to the NHS, the Achilles tendon is the largest in the body and connects the calf muscles with the heel. It affects anywhere up to 1 in 15,000 people and increases to 1 in 8,000 among athletes.
The X Factor winner will have to be in crutches (Picture: @mylesraksu/Instagram) It happened while he was playing football (Picture: @mylesraksu/Instagram)Huge sporting stars like Tiger Woods and David Beckham have been impacted by this common injury during their career – with many opting to receive surgery.
The young father to Shiloh, three, and Sahara, two, whom he shares with wife Keli Hall has faced a lot of medical stress over the past few years.
In January he had to rush his two-year-old daughter to A&E after she had a seizure, calling it the ‘scariest thing [he’d] ever seen.’
He recalled that she ‘stopped breathing’ and ‘turned blue’ after a temperature spike and urged parents to look up a Febrile seizure.
Myles has been open on his social media about his children’s health (Picture: Myles Stephenson/Instagram) He won X Factor in 2017 (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)And in 2023, he shared that he was ‘dealing with demons’ after his son suffered a stroke some time around his birth and now raised awareness of hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
Describing the journey at the time, he said: ‘Many, many months later we got the diagnosis of hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
‘We got told he’d had a stroke and that there is brain damage on the left side of his brain and you get shown the pictures, it hit home because you can see the damage.
‘‘For a long time since I found out, and since we’ve been going through this process, I’ve been dealing with demons just because that’s your son, that’s your child.
‘As much as I would love to take it all away and it be on me I can’t do anything about it. So there was a lot of processing and a lot of re-finding ourselves and kind of re-evaluating.’
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