From the day she was born, she seemed destined to live a wild life. In the decades that followed, her private life was in the spotlight and the tabloids couldn’t get enough of her. But she survived the Hоllуwооd pitfalls оf аddiсtiоn, scandalous mаrriаgеѕ, аnd ѕоmеtimеѕ ill-chosen рrоjесtѕ. Today, she’s 65 years old. Try not to smile when you see her now

She was mauled near the eye, and she feared losing her sight. She needed plastic surgery, while her mother Tippi Hedren contracted gangrene and needed skin grafts, according to a piece in the New Yorker.

As reported by The Guardian, Melanie Griffith said that the lioness ”didn’t mean to hurt me. Just, after seven years growing up with the lions, I forgot you have to be careful. You can never be sure you’re safe, and just a blow can pop your head like a ping pong ball.”

Melanie Griffith came through the scary incident. She continued to star in movies, however, without any live wild animals. She appeared in Body Double, Something Wild, and The Working Girl, among others, with the last one earning her an Academy Award nomination in 1989.

In the 1980s, Melanie Griffith also found love for the second time. She married actor Steven Bauer in 1981, and four years later, they welcomed a son, Alexander Bauer.

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