When Zack Wickham sustained a head injury atop a double-decker bus on The Valley, a concerned producer broke the fourth wall while quickly springing into action amid the emergency.
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To set the scene from Season 3, Episode 14 (streaming on Peacock beginning July 2), Zack and his castmates were on their way to his birthday celebration in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. While taking in the city’s sights with Jasmine Goode on the upper deck of the bus, Zack noticed that a “bird s–t” on his arm. As she helped him clean off the mess, Jasmine assured him that it was a sign of “good luck,” but seconds later, an overhead object struck Zack in the head, sending him to the floor.
“Oh my god, are you OK?” a producer immediately asked Zack. “He’s bleeding. Oh god.”
Once they’d gotten him down to the lower level of the bus, however, Zack was quick to insist that he was OK. “I’m surprised I’m not knocked out,” he admitted, before joking, “Can we find a doctor that can meet us at the club? I’m not even in pain.”
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His boyfriend, Benji Quach, on the other hand, was convinced that Zack would need stitches, so Zack addressed the group with pointed instructions. “If you don’t go out on my birthday, none of you are my true friends,” he announced, while keeping pressure on his wound. “There’s a medic around here. I’m gonna go, and then I’m gonna meet you at the club. Go have fun, and if you don’t, I will literally castrate all of you.”
Zack Wickham shares unaired details on the bus incident in Mexico
On The Valley After Show, Zack revealed that Brittany Cartwright actually “had a premonition” that something bad was going to happen, prior to the incident. Though her vision, of course, didn’t save him, he downplayed the accident almost the entire time. By Zack’s recollection, the fact that he was wearing all black prevented him from even noticing the blood, at first.
Jasmine, meanwhile, recounted how she quite literally gave Zack the shirt off her back. “I just didn’t know what to do,” she recalled. “So I took my shirt off and just, like, put it on his head.”
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Elsewhere on The Valley After Show, Kristen Doute said that she had texted Zack’s mom but immediately had a change of heart. Because she hadn’t yet gone into any detail about what happened to Zack, Kristen decided it would be better to not “freak her out,” however, and didn’t send his mom any more messages.
“She didn’t wake up ’til the next day and then had to wait until I woke up and picked up her seven calls,” Zack continued, referring to his mother. “She was like, ‘I figured if Kristen wasn’t texting me back more, then obviously everything was OK.'”
Why Zack Wickham insisted that his birthday party continue post-injury on The Valley
In a separate After Show clip. Zack also unpacked his reasons for insisting that his birthday party continue while he was in the emergency room. In fact, he’d even instructed the driver to drop off his friends before he went to the hospital. “I felt like the party would die if I didn’t get them to the club first,” he explained. “But imagine if I had died. I want you to party … You’ve gotta live for me.”
Zack joked that he’d also considered waiting to seek medical attention: “I could’ve just held my head like this for the entire night until after and then gone to the hospital. But I guess they had to, like, go do it.”
Once he’d gotten stitched up, Zack did indeed rejoin the group at a club to close out his birthday with some male “strippers” whom he said were “doing God’s work” when they “stayed late” for him. Eventually, the pain caught up with though.
“It was the next following day where my face swelled up,” Zack shared. “I’d been on a GLP-1, and I was looking so snatched for my birthday. And then all of a sudden, God said, ‘No.’ And it hurt. Oh my god, it was so bad that next day.”
As the birthday celebrations continue in Mexico, get details on an earlier injury that required producer intervention on The Valley Season 3.
