Kristin Chenoweth Recalls How Her Life Changed Following Near-Death Experience on TV Set

The actress suffered severe injuries following a freak accident on set of 'The Good Wife' in 2012.

Kristin Chenoweth is looking back at the moments in life that have made her who she is today.

While opening up about her strong faith in a new interview with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie, Chenoweth talked about gaining a new perspective on life after going through a terrifying near-death experience some years back.

In 2012, the Wicked star was involved in a freak accident on set of the CBS TV series The Good Wife, where she was struck by lighting equipment and left with several severe injuries, causing her to leave her recurring role on the show.

"It was horrific and scary and awful,” Chenoweth, 54, said of the incident in the new interview, which aired Friday, Apr. 7. But she believes the experience has forever changed the way she handles adversity in her life. "I could go on the path of bitterness and anger and I did for a while, I did. But I could let all that go. So guess what I’m going to choose?"

"The big question of ‘Why God me?’ When you find yourself asking God, 'Why me?' you can also then turn around and ask yourself, ‘Why not you?'" she added.

Chenoweth recently gave more details about the on-set accident while promoting her book, I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen earlier this year, where she discussed her regret for not suing the station for the preventable accident.

Revealing that she chose not to press charges "out of fear and anxiety," the Tony-winner explained, “I have long-standing injuries from that, so I wished I had listened to my dad, who said, ‘You're gonna wanna do this.'"

She then told Cohen more about what exactly happened, recalling, "I heard, like, a flagpole sound. I literally heard, ‘We’re losing the light.’ And I heard, ‘Action.’ And I woke up at Bellevue [Hospital]," as Parade previously reported.

"It hit me in the face and it threw me into a curb. Seven-inch skull fracture, hairline fracture, and teeth and ribs,” she added, noting that it was actually her hair extensions that prevented her from sustaining worse injuries.

"I owed what was left of my concussed brain to a well-placed line of hair extensions," she said on the TODAY show back in January.   "Never—never—underestimate the power of a good weave.”

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