Apple Watts, a former cast member of VH1’s reality series “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,” has been hospitalized after suffering severe injuries in a car accident in Baker, California, on Wednesday morning, People reported late Thursday.
California Highway Patrol Officer Ramon Duran confirmed to TheWrap that Watts was northbound on I-15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas when her Mercedes and a Ford F-250 pickup truck collided, causing her car to flip multiple times.
She was pulled to safety by a passenger in the pickup truck before her car was engulfed in flames, and was air-lifted to a University Medical Center in Las Vegas with “major injuries,” Duran said. Officials do not believe drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident at this time. The driver of the truck suffered only minor injuries, according to Duran.
A spokesperson for Watts did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Her sister confirmed to The Shade Room that Apple was ejected from her car and her injuries include a “fractured skull, a broken spine, and a shattered arm” and that she is currently “unresponsive.”
Besides appearing in “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,” Watts has also been featured in several music videos, including Future’s “Wicked.”
On VH1’s official site, Watts’ bio reads: “A tough-as-nails stripper from the mean streets of Compton, Apple Watts is determined to overcome her challenging upbringing and leave dancing behind while solidifying herself in the music industry, but first, she’ll need to manage her self-destructive tendencies she attributes to a childhood spent in the foster-care system. With mentor and friend Yolanda ‘YoYo’ Whittaker behind her, Apple’s striving to get on the straight and narrow — but with her unpredictability, only time will tell.”
