After breaking her neck in three places after falling from a trapeze, Megan Christian, a circus performer has bravely returned to the Big Top.

Megan, 21, fell 18 feet in front of shocked onlookers in Sheerness, Kent, last summer, but she’s chosen to try it again.

In July, a terrible fall in the Santus Circus at Barton’s Point beachfront park broke the trapeze artist’s neck in three places.

Fortunately, an off-duty firefighter in the audience went to Megan’s aid while she lay unconscious, and an air ambulance was dispatched to transport her to the hospital.

Megan’s family, who were unable to accompany her due to Covid limitations, were left behind in shock.

Megan Christian is back in the air with a new act barely eight months after the harrowing plummet.

Two of her spinal injuries have healed, while the third is held in place by a metal pin.

Megan Christian had returned to what she loves by December, despite doctors’ warnings to stay away from trapezes for at least six months.

She forced herself to practise the unsuccessful trick at home, but she decided to recreate herself with a new routine.

She’ll be performing in a gigantic heart-shaped prop at the Maidstone Circus till April 24.

Megan, from Sittingbourne’s Iwade, told KentOnline: “You always know there is a risk. You are doing a job which is unnatural for the body.

“But it has made me think about things differently now that I have been given a second chance.

“Everyone said I was crazy to go back and that I should do something else, but the circus is my blood.

“When I see the expressions on the kids’ faces watching the show it just makes it all worthwhile. I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else.”

She added: “I have a place at home where I practice – I got back up and made myself do that trick again because I didn’t want to have a mental block.

“But afterwards, I decided I needed a fresh start and bought a new heart-shaped prop.

“My new routine is simpler than before but the main thing was just to get up in the air again and start working.”

Last July’s crowd saw Megan’s terrifying fall on tape, which went viral before the circus requested that all material be erased.

Megan Christian said: “I felt perfectly fine that day and went through the first show with no problems. Then I fell in the second show.

“There wasn’t a problem with the rigging. It was just one of those things.

“It was a slip. I remember holding on and thinking ‘I’m going to fall’. I couldn’t stop myself because my body rotated with quite a force.”

At first, Megan Christian thought she had just broken a shoulder.

She said: “When they took me to Medway Maritime Hospital and told me I had fractured my neck in three places it was a jaw-on-the-floor moment.

“A chill went over me because I hadn’t prepared for that at all. Suddenly I felt quite nervous. That only went away after the operation when I found I could still stand up.”

“I remember one of the doctors stroking my hair and telling me it would be fine and the nurses helping me take off my costume and make-up.”

Circus spokesman Chris Barltop also commented to the paper: “We are glad Megan is back in the air. She’s a gutsy girl. But that’s circus people for you.”

He said: “Safety nets and safety lunges are not always appropriate. If a performer is leaving contact with the trapeze to fly through the air, they would use a safety device.

“But in normal circumstances on a static trapeze, it would actually handicap the performer. As with many sports, there’s risk. But although any such events naturally make headlines, accidents are rare in circuses.”

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