Singer Meat Loaf and his wife Deborah Lee Gillespie are suing Hyatt Regency at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, claiming he took a terrifying tumble during an appearance at the hotel, which resulted in him being hospitalized for 42 days.
As he walked on the stage, Meat Loaf, 72, “put his foot down on part of the curtain that had nothing beneath it,” the complaint states.
As a result, Meat Loaf allegedly lost his footing as “there was no stage floor beneath his foot, his foot and leg went down into air, causing him to fall off the stage, resulting in serious injuries.”
Meat Loaf and his wife are also suing Frightmare Weekend LLC.
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Meat Loaf’s attorney Charla Aldous did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. Both the Hyatt Regency and Texas Frightmare Weekend LLC did not return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
At the time of the incident, Meat Loaf was rushed to the emergency room at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. He stayed there for 12 days before being transferred to Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He stayed there for an additional 30 days, according to the lawsuit.
Meat Loaf is holding both the hotel and the festival responsible for his injuries as they “failed to do their job to provide a safe environment and ultimately Meat Loaf got seriously injured because of their failures,” the complaint states.
The complaint also alleges that both the Hyatt and Frightmare were “negligent” when setting up the stage and built it in a way that allegedly created a “trap” and a “hidden hazard.”
“In setting up the stage, the Defendants hung curtains from a tall frame at the back edge of the stage. The curtains came past the bottom of the stage where participants were walking and hid where the stage ended. Therefore, when viewing the stage from the participants’ standpoint, one would be unable to determine how much space they had while walking near the curtains before they would fall off the backside of the stage,” the complaint states.
source: people.com
