Fans of Angus Cloud, the 24-year-old actor who portrayed the charming, brooding drug dealer Fezco on “Euphoria,” have long conjectured about the curving mark that runs up his scalp’s left side. Cloud had explained its origins during a meal of vegan breakfast burritos in Mid City, Los Angeles. “It’s real,” he adds, slumping in his chair and locking eyes with me. “On Friday the 13th, I fractured my skull.”

He split off from a group of pals in 2013 as they strolled through the centre of his hometown of Oakland.

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Alone and in the dark, he didn’t notice the construction pit in front of him until he was already falling.

“I woke up 12 hours later at the bottom,” he said. “I was trapped. I eventually climbed out after — I don’t know how long. It was hella hard to climb out, because my skull was broken, but my skin wasn’t, so all the bleeding was internal, pressing up against my brain. But they wasn’t gonna find me down there. I found myself. Or God found me, whatever you want to call it.”

Cloud dragged himself out of the at least ten-foot-deep ditch with broken fingers. However, he claimed, “I didn’t feel any pain.” “You feel me? I was in survival mode.” After escaping, Cloud caught a bus to his mother’s house while his vision was foggy. “Since I was a young child! Possibly 14 or 15. She assumed I was using drugs because of how dilated my pupils were. I tried to explain what had occurred to her, but I was only able to begin a phrase. I decided to just go to sleep in my bed as a result.”

Fortunately, his mother forbade him. “I would have died,” he admitted. “She offered me some water, and I immediately began vomiting mouthfuls of terrible red blood. That was insane. My life was saved in the children’s hospital when my mother brought me there. That is what caused the scar. They sliced into my head, inserted a plate and screws over the place where I had fractured my skull, sealed me back up, and that was all.”

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“The brain is so fragile,” he said. He shrugs off the recovery process: five days in the ICU “loaded off morphine,” then a few more in non-intensive care units before going back home. “It was damn near like nothing really happened. I’m so blessed to just have minor brain damage. You know, it’s so minor it ain’t even really worth speaking about.”