Watch Bruno Mars' moving tribute to 11-year-old car-crash survivor
TODAY - For 11-year-old brain-injury survivor Zumyah Thorpe, months of personal tragedy and physical hardship got a shot of happiness Saturday with an “amazing” serenade from pop superstar Bruno Mars, who called the little girl “an inspiration to the world.”
TODAY — For 11-year-old brain-injury survivor Zumyah Thorpe, months of personal tragedy and physical hardship got a shot of happiness Saturday with an “amazing” serenade from pop superstar Bruno Mars, who called the little girl “an inspiration to the world.”
Thorpe’s mother and two younger sisters were killed last March when a drunk driver in a pickup truck slammed into the family’s Volkswagen Jetta. Thorpe suffered a traumatic head injury with brain swelling so severe that surgeons had to remove a portion of the girl’s skull.
The accident left Thorpe with significant impairments to her motor and language skills. But her medical team discovered she still was able to sing the tunes of Bruno Mars, her favorite recording artist.
Seeing how powerfully Thorpe responded to Mars’ music, Thorpe’s doctors “prescribed” a daily dose and now credit the tunes with the girl’s continued recuperation.
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