DARIUS Campbell Danesh shockingly had two near death experiences before his death at the age of 41.
The singer and actor was found dead in Rochester, Minnesota, on August 11, in his apartment and the cause of death remains unknown.
But the Scottish star hit headlines in 2010 when he revealed he was just “three millimetres from death” after being in a car crash.
Darius had been a passenger in a Porsche when it hit a wall at 70mph after skidding on oil during a sunshine break in Spain.
He broke his neck and his “trauma compression injury” was similar to that Superman actor Christopher Reeve suffered, which left him paralysed.
At the time he said: “I'm so happy to be alive. I've definitely used up one of my nine lives.”
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Just five years later Darius shocked fans when he revealed he had slipped into a coma after contracting meningitis when he drank water from the Thames.
The terrifying incident happened when he filmed a promo clip for his charity Fresh2O Water filter – which is said to remove 99.9 per cent of all known "water-borne pathogens, bacteria and viruses" – and drank water from a Thames sewage outlet.
However, his bottle didn't have a filter attached and he caught a virus which weakened his immune system and resulted in him contracting meningitis and cerebral oedema – swelling of his brain.
He later explained: “So I drank the water for the video and raised the funds but when I went to Glasgow to see my mum for her birthday I collapsed.
"It turned out I had a cerebral oedema where your brain swells bigger than your skull.
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“My dad saved my life. He got me to hospital, they diagnosed it quickly. I had bacterial meningitis.
“I had picked up an inflammatory virus from the Thames that had stayed in my system.
“It knocked my white blood cell count out for months and had left my immunity low so that I could have picked up anything going around.
“I had been flying a lot and picked up bacterial meningitis which at that time was on the rise.”
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