{"id":2465374,"date":"2026-06-18T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2465374"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:53:41","slug":"jamie-lynn-spears-details-daughter-maddie-having-last-rites-read-post-atv-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jamie-lynn-spears-details-daughter-maddie-having-last-rites-read-post-atv-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lynn Spears details daughter Maddie having last rites read post-ATV accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jamie Lynn Spears\u2019 daughter Maddie had her last rites read after her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/02\/06\/jamie-lynn-spears-daughter-reportedly-in-serious-condition-after-atv-accident\/\">near-fatal ATV accident<\/a> in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSweet Magnolias\u201d star, 35, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jamie-lynn-spears-daughter-maddie-was-read-last-rites-by-priest-exclusive-12000724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told People<\/a> on Wednesday that the then-8-year-old, who was in a coma, \u201cphysically sit[ting] up in all her restraints and tubes\u201d when the priest arrived to her hospital room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI [was] screaming for the doctors, like \u2018Come in here now!&#8217;\u201d the actress recalled. \u201cEven the priest was like, \u2018I\u2019ve never seen anything like what\u2019s happening.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jamie Lynn Spears\u2019 daughter Maddie had her last rites read after her 2017 ATV accident. <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The then-8-year-old was in a coma when the priest entered the room. <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Spears continued, \u201cI knew she was in there and felt all of us praying. We were given a miracle, and I don\u2019t take it for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cZoey 101\u201d alum shared more details with the outlet of her eldest child surviving \u201cagainst all odds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She remembered witnessing the ATV Polaris accident, which took place at husband Jamie Watson\u2019s Louisiana home.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>She then \u201cphysically [sat] up in all her restraints and tubes.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The priest had \u201cnever seen\u201d anything like the \u201cmiracle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe were watching her, and we still don\u2019t quite know if she was dodging a dog or what it was,\u201d the former Nickelodeon star said. \u201cShe went in the water and me, my father-in-law and my husband ran as fast as we could to go jump in to get her out, but she was stuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maddie being pulled out of the water by emergency responders minutes later was \u201creally not a sight anybody wants to see,\u201d Spears told the outlet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point, she was not breathing. We thought that she had passed,\u201d the \u201cSpecial Forces\u201d alum explained, noting that paramedics ultimately \u201cgot a pulse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maddie woke up from the coma after two days. <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maddie had been \u201cbegging for a sibling\u201d before her crash, so Spears and husband Jamie Watson decided to conceive baby No. 2 shortly after. <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the little one\u2019s two-day coma, Spears decided to have another baby since Maddie had been \u201cbegging for a sibling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, Maddie asked about expanding the family when she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/02\/07\/jamie-lynn-spears-daughter-awake-and-talking-after-atv-crash\/\">woke up from her coma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spears and Watson, 54, conceived daughter Ivey, now 8, a few months later, and the infant <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/04\/12\/jamie-lynn-spears-gives-birth-to-second-child\/\">arrived in April 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cWe always say [Maddie] went up to heaven to go pick out her little sister,\u201d the \u201cZoey 101\u201d alum told the outlet. <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Spears\u2019 eldest child graduated high school in May and is headed to college. <span class=\"credit\">jamie lynn spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe always say [Maddie] went up to heaven to go pick out her little sister,\u201d Spears said. \u201cIvey\u2019s like, \u2018So you did\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0of that to find me?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/08\/14\/celebrity-news\/jamie-lynn-spears-daughter-maddie-breaks-silence-on-near-fatal-atv-accident\/\">Looking back on the freak accident<\/a>, Maddie said, \u201cSeeing everybody rally around me, it made me realize how blessed I am. It really made me so grateful for every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teenager graduated from high school last month and is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/11\/25\/parents\/jamie-lynn-spears-reveals-where-her-teen-daughter-maddie-will-be-attending-college\/\">set to play softball<\/a> at the University of Southern Mississippi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Lynn Spears\u2019 daughter Maddie had her last rites read after her near-fatal ATV accident in February 2017. The \u201cSweet Magnolias\u201d star, 35, told People on Wednesday that the then-8-year-old, who was in a coma, \u201cphysically sit[ting] up in all her restraints and tubes\u201d when the priest arrived to her hospital room. \u201cI [was] screaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2465375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[30058,344976,24003,350821,375056,22507],"class_list":["post-2465374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-freak-accidents","tag-jamie-lynn-spears","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jamie-Lynn-Spears-details-daughter-Maddie-having-last-rites-read.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465376,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465374\/revisions\/2465376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}