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UPDATED: Sundance Head, Season 11 winner of The Voice, is speaking out for the first time since he accidentally shot himself at his rural Texas ranch.
The singer-songwriter begins his video message on Facebook by thanking God and the healthcare workers at UT Tyler Hospital who helped keep him alive after the shooting.
“I was sure that I was gonna die,” he said “It was one of the craziest things that’s ever happened to me … But I really wanted to come on here and tell you guys that I am alive. I’m in a lot of pain. I was shot accidentally in the stomach. I was alone.”
“I have a lot of life left, and that’s what I was telling these ladies and gentlemen that [were] trying to keep me alive during the whole process, man. I just, really, I’m so thankful for the first responders. They did a wonderful job.”
He also thanked a stranger who stopped to help him while he was “bleeding out” on the side of the road.
“Without you, man, I don’t think I was gonna make it,” he said of the Good Samaritan. “I was bleeding out right there. Didn’t have anyone to help me, and you know, I had about a dozen cars go by and see me and make eye contact, and they didn’t stop.”
“I’m telling you what, buddy, I was at the end of the road,” he continued. “So, I am really, really fortunate and thankful for the couple of gentlemen that did turn around, and I want to tell you honestly that I love you and I’m so thankful that you were in my life at that moment. And it wasn’t a chance meeting between us. And I look forward to spending more time with you in the future.”
PREVIOUS, Nov. 15: Sundance Head is in stable condition after suffering a gunshot wound on Friday at his rural Texas ranch.
The Season 11 winner of The Voice took a bullet in the stomach in what is being considered an accidental shooting, and he has since been airlifted to a hospital in Tyler, Texas, according to TMZ.
Head’s wife Misty told the outlet that the bullet missed all of his organs and was lodged in a fatty area of his stomach. She was on the way to visit him at the hospital at the time.
Although it is unclear how Head sustained the gunshot wound, his agent Trey Newman noted to TMZ that the American Idol alum goes hunting on his ranch, and recent social media photos show him in a tent on what could be a hunting trip.
Newman said Head was the one who called 911 after the incident.
Head was a semi-finalist on Season 6 of Fox’s American Idol in 2007, and he went on to win Season 11 of NBC’s The Voice as part of Team Blake Shelton in 2016.