Orlando Bloom opens up about his mental health I UNICEF

When I was 19, I fell three floors from a window and broke my back. I was very fortunate to survive the fall because my spinal cord was still just intact. And when I was in hospital, I was told for the first four days that I may never walk again. I'm Orlando Bloom, International Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. That was really the beginning of what was a long and painful journey for me into recognizing and understanding some of the patterns that had been in my life that had led me to having numerous accidents. And the culmination was breaking my back, which was a near-death experience. So after the surgery, I got a back brace and I was able to start physio. And I actually walked out of hospital on crutches after 12 days, which was really remarkable and unheard of. I would say the months after the fall were quite a dark time. As somebody who had sort of always been very active in my life, it felt very restrictive all of a sudden, and I was in a lot of pain. And I would say that, for me, the injury created time and space for me to look at my life, recognize what was good and great in my life, and the fact that I had this recovery, and then build that into the way that I live my life. Because mental health is particularly challenging because it's unseen. There is always an opportunity for you to transform the pain, whether it be physical or mental, into the great good fortune of your life. And it is so important to reach out to people, to talk to people, to find somebody, in order to create the possibility for communication that leads to transformation and change. It starts with one moment, one conversation. It starts with one question. What's on your mind?