‘People-pleasing is basically what broke my neck’

Laura Benanti blames her lifelong accidents on being a folks pleaser.

“Individuals-pleasing is mainly what broke my neck,” the Broadway vet informed Web page Six at Hulu’s premiere of “Life & Beth” in New York Metropolis on Wednesday night time.

“I broke my neck in 2002, it’s been 20 years. I’ve had two spinal surgical procedures, I’ve arthritis,” she continued. “Generally I’ll be carrying groceries they usually’ll actually simply fall on the bottom and I’ve to attend till [the feeling] comes again in my fingers.”

Benanti, 42, broke her neck whereas performing in “Into The Woods” when she was simply 21 years outdated. Producers allegedly requested her to carry out two pratfalls within the present, together with one from a shifting staircase.

“I by no means sued anyone. I didn’t get a settlement, I paid for my very own surgical procedures,” she informed Web page Six, including that she “would by no means let that occur” to herself once more.

The “Youthful” star additionally believes that this “by no means ever would have occurred” to a person.

“The minute he would have mentioned, ‘This doesn’t really feel protected to me,’ they [producers] would have mentioned, ‘Positive,’” she argued.

Recalling that tumultuous time in her life, Benati mentioned that the worst a part of all of it was coping with rumors claiming she was “tough” to work with – all as a result of she bowed out of the manufacturing early.

“I had no recourses to name up producers and say, ‘Hey, they’re not telling the reality about me. They’re telling the Publish that I simply don’t present up for work. I broke my f–king neck!’” she mentioned.

As a substitute, she was compelled to cope with whispers of “she’s tough, she’s proficient, however I want she’d present up,” calling the expertise “a very, actually onerous time.”

Benanti went on to win a Tony for “Gypsy” in 2008 and has since appeared in dozens of TV exhibits and flicks. Her newest function is enjoying Amy Schumer’s onscreen mother in “Life & Beth.” The 2 first labored collectively on Broadway after they starred in “Meteor Bathe.”

“Life & Beth” premieres March 18 on Hulu.