“I’ve never ridden before, and it was going fine for a while. It was right at the very end, I just lost control of the bike, and I ended up in a wheelie,” she recalled. “I landed on one leg, and the pressure of the landing snapped my knee.”
Now, post-surgery, Dobrev plans to stay away from dirt bikes—and many other riskier activities—as she focuses on her recovery.
“I feel like I have a fear now,” the Perks of Being a Wallflower alum explained. “I used to be so adventurous and down to do anything. And now, since the injury, maybe it’s because I’m still healing and it’s a nine-month process. I’m only on month three-and-a-half of nine months. I’m still having to relearn how to walk and so the idea of getting back to the snowboard or getting on a dirt bike ever again is definitely not happening.”
