I wasn’t even going to write about Calvin Harris’s car accident because there was no gossip angle to Calvin being the victim of someone else’s reckless driving. But then I read TMZ’s story and… I don’t know, the whole story just seems so bizarre. On Friday night in LA, Calvin Harris was a passenger in someone else’s Cadillac SUV when a VW bug crashed into the SUV. It was a bad situation and police and ambulances were called. Calvin was taken by ambulance to an LA hospital. Upon his arrival at the hospital, he requested a private room. That’s when things got weird.
Calvin Harris was involved in a terrible car crash Friday night, suffering injuries serious enough to require an ambulance … but staying in the hospital just wasn’t for him. Law enforcement sources tell us … Calvin was a passenger in a Cadillac SUV at around 11 PM when a VW Bug convertible driven by a 16-year-old girl crossed the center line, crashing into his vehicle.
The VW bug was filled with teenagers and the accident so violent … one of the passengers who was sitting on her boyfriend’s lap was ejected. Calvin suffered a laceration on his face that was bad enough to require immediate attention. Paramedics took him to an L.A. hospital. We’re told he wanted a private room, and when they said one wasn’t available he hopped off the gurney and left …”against medical advice.”
The driver and her passenger who was ejected were also taken to the hospital. We know the girl who was ejected suffered a broken pelvis.
This sounds like a serious car accident and the use of “laceration” makes me think that Calvin likely had some deep cuts on his face and he needed stitches, and perhaps an MRI for a possible concussion. And he just walks out of the hospital because they didn’t have a private room? WTF? I mean, Calvin is one of the richest and most popular DJ-producers in the world, but most people wouldn’t be able to pick him out of a line-up, let’s be real. He’s not Mariah. He’s not Beyonce. He’s not Taylor Swift. Now, maybe TMZ was putting a tabloidy spin on this, because The Sun has photos of Calvin taken post-accident and his face looks uninjured. Or maybe we’re just seeing the uninjured side of his face?
Then again, the injuries Calvin sustained were apparently so bad that he’s already canceled two concerts/appearances. He was supposed to be in Alabama on Saturday and in Las Vegas on Friday. Hm.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Private rooms in the emergency department are usually reserved for the most seriously injured/sick person in the ER – the person having a heart attack or such. The broken pelvis girl would have gotten it over a guy with some lacerations until they had an inpatient room available for her.
I work in crit care. Truly sick people are desperate for care and so grateful to get it. If you’re well enough to make demands, please let me show you the door. There’s never a shortage of people in ED or ICU.
I don’t think he was playing the diva card, I think this was for privacy. He obviously didn’t have any, because this story has already been reported. So, he wasn’t wrong. If he is in a private room and something gets out, there would be record of which doctors, nurses, etc were in there and they would have a place to start on tracking down who illegally sold his information- which means they wouldn’t do it. If he is In a general area, anyone could just walk by and hear something, and not be held responsible.
It could be much ado about nothing, or he could be on a prescription, or had something In his system he would like to keep private.
OR, you know, he had a head wound and wasn’t thinking straight?
I mean, you work in health care – people who are injured can easily become aggravated and confused. I don’t think it’s a stretch to think that that could be the case here.
I’ve been in the ER a lot over the past few years for family emergencies and have seen people lying on cots in the hallway for hours because the cubicles were full. As SOUTH says, If you’re well enough to complain, you don’t belong there. And the gathering of personal information is handled very discreetly. People in the ER are usually far too concerned about their ailment or the condition of their family member/friend to care about what is happening in the next cubicle.
“If you are well enough to complain you don’t belong there”. And he left. So what is your problem?
If you work in critical care, then you of all people should know that there’s no such thing as patient privacy in emergency rooms. Even when health care workers try and keep their voices down, most of the time everyone around them can hear everything the doctor says. The curtain dividers (assuming he even had a bed, a lot of times patients just sit in the hallway awaiting a bed) are not soundproof. Heck I’ve even heard the diagnosis of patients in adjoining “private” rooms plenty of times.
I get that he’s not a super visible celebrity like Beyonce or even Taylor Swift, but that doesn’t mean that no one would recognize him. Why is it so unreasonable for the dude to ask for a private room? Plus, like everyone said, he didn’t throw a fit when he was denied. So why do people have a problem with his actions? It sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
“It could be much ado about nothing, or he could be on a prescription, or had something In his system he would like to keep private.”
^ I think @Lille guessed correctly here.
They wanted to admit him and keep him for observation. That’s when he requested a private room. Not in the ER.
How exactly would a private room be different from normal treatment? Don’t they have separate rooms for examining or treating people anyway?
He might not have liked being treated in a curtained cubicle because anything he said would likely be overheard by other patients, their visitors, and hospital workers. And my
Spidey sense is tingling – there is more to this story that Calvin clearly does not want everyone to know.
Or maybe he cries like a baby at the sight of needles or blood?
He didn’t have serious injuries so walking out probably wasn’t a big deal. Eventhough most people wouldn’t know Calvin, they would when the news broke out.
This doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. If his injuries aren’t serious enough to “deserve” a private room, then I can understand why he would leave and get treated in a more private settings/where he’s more comfortable – I’m sure he has options.
I’m not a celebrity, but I hate the hospital with a passion. So if it’s not 100% necessary for me to be there, then I’ll always choose to be treated on my own terms and hopefully go home. Just being there stresses me out so much.
But would he be admitted under the name Calvin Harris or his real name? I thought Calvin was the name he used for work as a DJ.
Interesting how there is no information about the driver of the car , Calvin was riding in.
Maybe it was a hired car? The announcement from Harris’ team about cancelling the shows mentioned he was on the way to the airport when the crash occurred. I assumed the car and driver were from a car service.
He should have said he is Taylor Swift’s soon to be ex-boyfriend and they will hear a lot about him in the future. Yes they will.
Ha. That comment is GOLD.
A friend of mine recently came across a man who had fallen off a ladder and suffered very serious injuries as a result. They were able to wake him up before the ambulance arrived, at which point he started walking around and appeared to be acting normally except he couldn’t sit still and was getting blood everywhere. He later spent five weeks in an induced coma. He was in shock and didn’t realise how bad his injuries were. When I first heard this story, I thought it might be the same thing, that Harris was in shock and that’s why he walked out. Of course, he might also be an asshole who thinks he’s too important to be treated in a public space, who knows?
Maybe he wanted to go straight to his plastic surgeon.
That was my first thought too. I was hit in the face with a field hockey ball in high school and my parents made us wait for plastics in the ER. I have virtually no scar now!
I took a bad tumble off a horse in my early 20’s. I pretty much plowed a furough in my friend’s dirt driveway with my forehead. My dad made me wait for the plastic surgeon, too, even though all I wanted to do was leave. I don’t have any scars either that are noticeable. Yay for parents and plastic surgeons.
This, exactly. A friend got her face cut up in a DUI and man she’s gorgeous. Her mom IMMEDIATELY got her over to a plastic surgeon. And she kept all her gorgeousness intact.
If he sustained cuts and bruises, he was probably in shock to find out he is made of flesh and blood just like the rest of mortals on planet Earth.
I agree. I had a horrible hit and laceration to my head late at night in my home. After I hit my head, I couldn’t even walk so I crawled across the house to my bedroom. The next morning, my husband found me in our bedroom covered in blood. If he had head injuries he most certainly could have been very disoriented and have a concussion. My husband took me the hospital immediately and I was so out of it. It was crazy! I don’t blame him for asking for a private room regardless of what the reasoning was. I just hope he left w/someone who could take care of him until he found a good doctor or surgeon.
He wasn’t feeling too bad then.
I hate men who throw hissy fits. The world doesn’t revolve around Calvin, especially in a hospital.
I don’t think anyone said he threw a hissy fit. Sounds to me like he just left. And men throwing hissy fits are no different than women throwing hissy fits, so I’m not sure if you meant that men should act at a different ‘standard’ than women, or what with that one.
But seriously – he had head wounds. Head wounds bleed quite a bit. So guarantee the guy wasn’t in tip top shape. There’s a good chance that he could have been confused or unsure of how bad his injuries really were.
I just don’t think it’s fair to say that someone who had a car cross the line and smash into him is acting like a diva. My god, he could have been killed by some dumb kids reckless driving. If he wanted more private care, well – he left and that opened up a bed for someone else.
I wasn’t able to have a private room when I had my hysterectomy, and it was pretty awful. The first woman I shared with snored and kept watching the same movie over and over. The second one had a stream of visitors and the third had very um, powerful stomach issues. I will try to never share a room again, but I wouldn’t refuse medical treatment because of it. I think that was foolish whether he believed he was seriously injured or not.
My worst was actually sharing a pre-op waiting room … for a colonoscopy. That was not fun. 6 patients on laxatives in a small room with 3 toilets. The toilets were inside the room, with walls/doors that didn’t reach the floor/ceiling. Basically 6 beds in a public toilet. And we were all wearing those hospital gowns that gape in the back and the horrible paper underwear. But honestly, I couldn’t have cared less about the lack of privacy, I just wanted it over with. (I did cry when they told me I had to drink more of the laxative solution, but that was just because that stuff tastes horrible.)
15 years later, I had a different colonoscopy experience: still a shared waiting room, but we had our own knickers, fluffy bathrobes (like you’d get at an expensive hotel) to wear over our gowns, and there were separate toilets (each fully enclosed, like the toilet in a house rather than a bank of loos in a public toilet), that were around the corner and down the hall a bit. All great until something must’ve happened to the patient before me because sirens went off and a flipping code team ran through the waiting room with resusc gear. Who the hell designs a hospital so the code team has to run through the pre-op waiting room to get to the operating rooms? Completely ruined the calming effect of the fluffy robe.
Oh, dear, you win. Lol
Yeah, my one hospital stay I shared a room with a woman who moaned continuously about her pain. If I didn’t need to be in the hospital that badly, I would take off, too. Don’t blame him one bit.
Yeah, I’ve checked myself out AMA before. Had a migraine so hideous I was puking and passing out. Got to ER, they stuck an IV in me, then hit me up with pain killers and anti nausea meds. Once that was done, I was waiting for doctor. However person next to me was screaming (druggie detoxing). Between that noise and the dancing lights of the migraine, there was no way I was staying a minute later in the shared cubicle. Told the nurse to take my IV out, put my sunglasses on, and left to go home and sleep in darkness and peace.
So, I got no shade for Calvin right now. Come back after Taylor dumps him.
I’m betting he had a private doctor come see him wherever he was staying. And if he had cuts on his face, a good plastic surgeon. If you have the money and aren’t in a life threatening situation, I don’t blame someone for not wanting to hang out in the ER.
I had my appendix taken off in February. Before going to the operation room i asked and got an empty room. It had four beds inside so the possibility was there to have more people but it was empty when i first got there. When i came back there were two other people there: a woman with hight blood pressure that ate ALL the time with such delight (i couldn’t for two days I stayed there so it was some kind of torture in itself) and an old lady moaning all day and night and shitting blood no kidding. She had to be changed several times per day and the room was filled with blood smell and screams in agony. And the lights had to be on all night. She was in agony (doctors basically told her family to take her home but they didn’t for the period as there) and the irony was that when some of her family came to visit they SHSHSHSHSHSH-t us for talking and were keeping a silence gathering around her. The other woman told them “She is still alive, you can mourn her later she just had her diaper changed that’s why she is si calm”. Thank good she was there or else……actually a nurse said she was sorry i had to be in that room. Basically i had bad luck that time.
Heh. Having been in the hospital in both private rooms and with roommates, I can’t blame him one bit.
This doesn’t bother me, as long as he received some medical attention somewhere and isn’t walking around with an untreated head injury. ERs are so overcrowded and I suspect he has private doctor options. Why not leave if he has a better option? This is assuming a lot of course but it doesn’t sound like he threw a fit. It just sounds like he asked for something, didn’t get it, and left quietly.
That’s what I thought, he probably got in touch with a private doctor or something and left for that. Hopefully he isn’t too hurt, and the kids in the other car aren’t either. Scary.
Maybe someone recognized him there and he was trying to find some privacy before the cell phone cameras came out? I wouldn’t recognize him, but fans of Swift might.
So one person was ejected, and one person had a broken pelvis. Then there is Calvin Harris, demanding a private room for his laceration. I just can’t.
THANK YOU
Why are people focusing on the guy in the SUV, and not the poor kids in the crappy little collapsible car? Calvin Harris is fine. The poor girl who got ejected is going to be in a lot of pain for a while.
“poor kids”? They’re the idiots who 1) was driving so recklessly she crashed into an oncoming car, and 2) was sitting on her boyfriend’s lap, seemingly without a seatbelt because she got ejected from the car. They are not “poor kids”, they are idiots who could have killed not only themselves but others as well. If they were adults, no one would be saying “poor adults”.
…well yeah, because you would expect adults to be more experienced and mature. These really are just kids – probably newly licensed at that. They are responsible for their reckless driving, but I can acknowledge that a broken pelvis is a really shitty way to learn a lesson.
Better a broken pelvis than a broken neck.
They drove recklessly and should consider themselves lucky to
a) be alive
b) not have killed anyone else.
If you are too dumb to strap…
maybe calvin harris can afford a private health care and also he needs privacy as other commenters have said. Besides he leaves a space for other persons who may need it more.
It doesn’t matter what kind of care he can afford. ERs are legally obliged to treat anyone who comes in, whether they can afford to pay or not.
A laceration is just basically any cut that goes through the first layer of skin and causes bleeding. It can be anything from a paper cut to being ripped down to the bone. This guy sounds like a huge diva. I’ve never heard of him and I certainly would NOT want to be the person with a real medical emergency, the next curtain over, having to listen to him whine about his petty problems.
Yep, exactly. If he’d been injured seriously enough that he was admitted, THAT would have been the time to discuss a private room. You don’t get to pick and choose in the ER. And a lot of ERs have cubicles with sliding doors ,so are relatively private.
Wow, he and Taylor should work out fine. Two spoiled, unattractive brats.
If I were a celebrity i would also ask for a private room. not because i am a diva or because i am throwing hissy fits, but because i would not want people staring at me, taking photographs and possibly spreading the wrong information. so i can get him leaving especially if he has, which he most likely does, another option
Exactly.
I don’t get the hate on him here? He didn’t throw a fit. He asked for a private room, then left when they couldn’t get one. No story here. I would have left with a towel on my head and went straight to the plastic surgeons office! I had a facial wound as a child and plastic surgeon saved me from a nasty scar on my face! You can’t even tell it happened now. And honeslty, famous or not, nobody WANTS to share a room?! Lord knows I don’t. Also, I know plenty of people who belonged in a hospital but still complained. And rightly so for poor care they were getting. Let’s not forget we live in a world where FAMILY MEMBERS sell pictures of their dead famous family members in caskets at the funeral home to TMZ for fast cash. So of course a stranger might be looking for a pay day at a hospital.
Was he worried that people would recognize him? To use a quote about Ann (her?) from Arrested Development: You couldn’t pick (him) out of a one person line-up. But if I had the means to get more private medical care rather than stay in the ER, I probably would.
Calvin was NOT driving the car and the 16 yr old teen who caused the accident crossed the yellow line, was speeding and in a convertible. The girl with the broken pelvis not wearing a seatbelt and sitting on her boyfriend’s lap and was ejected. The outrage is with Calvin? Seriously? No question or outrage for the irresponsible teenage driver who herself is lucky to be alive and equally lucky she didn’t cause the death of anyone else involved.
Maybe because Calvin had head wounds/bleeding was taken because of protocol via ambulance to a hospital was checked out and decided – rightfully so in my opinion – of getting a proper plastic surgeon to stitch his face and not an ER doc.
Obviously his nobody self did raise some pap flashes as TMZ had the story blasted on their front page along with photos of the cars. So I’m sure if he had stayed all details would be ’leaked’ to TMZ with photos if they were lucky and that there I think is the outrage! When TMZ was leaking and posting stuff regarding Prince’s death the outcry of privacy was raised but shouldn’t every public person deserve privacy in such a situation?
Where I live (NE Ohio) most hospitals have private rooms. They apparently did a study that showed that given privacy and not being exposed to germ from other patients whenever possible reduced hospital stays and sped up healing. Now I can’t imagine having to share a room. Also, with HIPAA most ED’s have changed significantly. It’s not just a curtain separating you from other patients, it’s usually a completely separate room with a door or 3 walls and a floor length curtain. I refuse to knock anyone who wants privacy at their most vulnerable time.
My first thought was that he wanted to get the hell out of there because of who he may have been with when the accident happened, or because he might have been drunk/high, or both……
13 Employees were fired after Britney spears hospital stint in 2008 for snooping in her file.
I completely understand Harris’ needing/wanting privacy.
Most ER rooms are semi-private, so we’re likely talking an inpatient situation or an overly crowded ER that he walked out on. It’s fairly common practice to give celebrities their own room for security reasons – at my hospital, we won’t even visibly label the patient’s med drawer. He was likely frustrated and in pain, so I’m not entirely shocked he walked out. We see people do it all the time who aren’t packing the kind of cash flow he has.
Broken pelvis though. Ugh. That girl’s got a long recovery process ahead of her.
yal dont bash…. im sure he was trying to avert the bs that is TMZ ….
He needs to get over himself. He’s a Brit so should be used to not having a private room. If George Michael, Brian Ferry and Simon Cowell can bunker in a squashed up ward then so can he.
If they thought he was acting irrationally due to concussion then he would not be allowed to leave and would be treated under ‘ patients best interests’ rule.
What a knob