Going into a coma wasn't the only shocking part about Quinton Aaron's recent health woes.
In January, the The Blind Side actor, 41, was hospitalized in Atlanta, where he was placed on life support, after suffering from a spinal stroke.
Now in physical therapy at an Atlanta hospital, and working to regain his ability to walk, he is recovering not only from being in a coma for four days and needing help breathing for a month, but also from a shocking marriage revelation.
© ABC NewsQuinton, speaking with ABC News, revealed that when he woke up from the coma, his family informed him that his wife, Margarita DeLeon, was still married to another man and could not legally make medical decisions on his behalf.
"And that's what eventually led to the doctors removing her from around me," he shared.
"The entire time we were together, she told me she had been divorced for 10 plus years," he said. "She even told the person where we were getting married, 'Oh yes, I have all the documents. I can email over to you the divorce decree.'"
© ABC NewsIt was during his hospitalization that a lawyer uncovered records proving she was still married to a man she wed in 1992, meanwhile she and Quinton married in December 2024.
Margarita however denies any wrongdoing, maintaining to ABC News that she was unaware of her current marital status. "When I told Quinton back in the hospital bed, and I want to be very honest about this, I feel like this needs to be said and brought out there. I said to him, I said, 'Bibi, this information that your family pulled up on me, you know, I wasn't aware of it.' I said, 'This is what I found out. It is true,'" she said.
Her husband corroborated her claims, telling ABC News that he also was under the impression that their divorce was finalized; he filed for divorce again in February.
© InstagramQuinton went on to confirm that he "did" in fact love Margarita, however, if he "had a chance to do it over," he would have done his "due diligence," adding that he "would've definitely done a lot more research."
© TikTokFor now, Quinton is focused on his recovery, which includes intensive rehabilitation and managing diabetes, which doctors say contributed to the stroke. "He's in therapy every day, three hours a day. That is the benchmark of all inpatient rehabilitation facilities," Dr. Nithin Devireddy, medical director at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Atlanta, where Quinton is being treated, also told ABC's Good Morning America.
"The doctors projected that it could take months, it could be a year, or up to a year," Quinton said of regaining his ability to walk. "And I said, 'I don't claim that time frame. I'll be walking a lot sooner than you think.' You know, and that's just how I believe. … That's how, you know, between me, my faith, and my relationship with God."
