![]() Upon his exit, he was transported to a hospital, where he would spend nine days after fainting in the hospital’s bathroom. With a heart rate constantly hovering around 130-145, rather than its normal rate of 60, and a fever, the show’s doctors forced him out of the competition. “Nobody will ever carry me,” he said. “If I lose a leg, I will limp out.” Though he cannot recall it, Frattini said he was pleased to see he made it to the medics on his own two feet and not carried. ![]() On the hike, he became delirious, which many viewers chalked up to him behind dehydrated or pushing his body way past its limits.įrattini’s condition became so severe he had no choice but to see the show’s medical team, though he cannot recall actually walking to the medical tent or receiving an IV at the tent. The excruciating pain, which prevented him from even sitting down, was not enough to force the former marine to tap out, despite being immobile for nine hours. In fact, to avoid a forced exit, he hid from the show’s doctors who check on contestants’ vitals twice a day by always pretending to be sleeping when the doctors came around in the morning and evening, knowing they would not disturb him if he was asleep.ĭuring the tail-end of the experience, Frattini would be bitten by a centipede, which resulted in excruciating pain from his fingers to elbow and entire body numbness. Three days before on embarking on a 6.5-mile hike, Frattini noted was not feeling well, but was nowhere near ready to medically exit. This season, Frattini nearly made it to the finish before he was forced to medically tap out, a decision Frattini repeatedly insisted was not the result of him not knowing the limits of his body and not the result of him sharing his rations with other contestants. With his quick exit, he was determined to return for his shot at redemption - a shot he received in late 2018.įrattini returned to the Naked and Afraid XL competition for its fifth season in search of redemption after a way-too-early exit during the show’s third season in 2017.įor more insight into Frattini’s prior experiences on the Naked and Afraid series, read our pre-show story: Seeking redemption, Frattini returns to popular survivalist show, somewhere in the South China sea His injury, however, did not provide an excuse to forego all that he learned while in the military.įrattini refused the production team’s offer to remove him on a stretcher and instead spent the next two days hobbling in intense pain with no painkillers until he was out.ĭoctors operated on him nine days later and again six weeks after the initial procedure. As he attempted to run away, he again fell to the ground within four to five feet, unable to run with a snapped quadriceps tendon. Frattini returned to the series to compete on the “XL” version of the show in 2017 as part of a larger group of competitors competing over a 40-day period in Ecuador’s Amazon basin.įollowing his 2017 injury, he immediately fell to the ground, landing in an ants’ nest and providing the ants the opportunity to attack his entire body. ![]() The first time Frattini appeared on Naked and Afraid was in 2015 when the show shipped him off to Colombia as a contestant on its show featuring but two competitors. ![]() In fact, the experience, which was his third appearance in the Naked and Afraid series, which sends naked survivalists into jungles around the world to test their survival skills in the competitive survive-or-die jungle environment, nearly killed him and forced him to, once again, exit the Discovery Channel show for medical reasons.ĭuring his time in 2017 on the third season of Naked and Afraid XL, which sends groups of survivalists (compared to only two in the non-XL version) to compete for bragging rights, Frattini exited the competition four hours after starting, a moment he described as embarrassing, when he severed his quadriceps tendon as he twisted his leg on a steep slope in attempt to avoid a swarm of hundreds of ants that attacked him for stepping on their nest. THOMASTON - To say this season of Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid XL challenged Thomaston resident Charlie Frattini is a tremendous understatement. ![]()
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