Nina Dobrev is “fine” after accident, but recovery will take a “long time.”
On Monday, the “Vampire Diaries” star, 35, shared before and after photos on Instagram that showed him in hospital with multiple injuries.
“How it started and how it's progressing,” she captioned the post. Her first photo shows Dobrev riding an electric bike, and the second shows Dobrev lying in a hospital bed with a brace on his left leg and another on his neck. Mr. is shown in the picture.
“I'm okay, but I have a long road to recovery ahead of me,” she wrote on her Instagram Story.
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According to her friend and business partner, Julianne Hough, Dobrev appears to be managing her injury well. “She's my girl!” the dancer wrote in the comments section of the post. “Of course I wouldn't be joking if she wasn't fine…”
“Just staying on brand ❤️,” her boyfriend Shaun White commented.
On Monday, White posted to her Instagram Story a picture of Dobrev lying on a private jet seat with her dog Maverick, her injured leg hidden in a brace and resting on a pillow. Dobrev's latest project, the murder mystery comedy Reunion starring Lil Rel Howery, will be released on June 28th.
Since her days playing Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce on The Vampire Diaries ended in 2017, the film and TV actress has been busy with producing, acting, and branching out into directing.
“Telling provocative, interesting and impactful stories by and for women has always been at the core of many of our projects,” she told Flaunt Magazine in a 2021 interview.
“When I first came to the U.S., I didn't have a lot of opportunities to create,” added Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria and immigrated to Canada with her family.
“It took me a while to get to where I am now, partly because I was confident and felt like I could do it, but also because I didn't see many examples of it. At the beginning of my career, There weren't many people I could respect in that world.”
