COMEDIAN Rickey Smiley’s daughter Ryn, 19, shows off her scars six months after she was shot in both legs during horrific drive-by attack. Aaryn, a student at Baylor University, opened up about the impact and aftermath of the traumatic incident. Sharing a series of graphic photos to her Instagram page, Ryn, 19, thanked her 63.5k […]
COMEDIAN Rickey Smiley’s daughter Ryn, 19, shows off her scars six months after she was shot in both legs during horrific drive-by attack.
Aaryn, a student at Baylor University, opened up about the impact and aftermath of the traumatic incident.
Sharing a series of graphic photos to her Instagram page, Ryn, 19, thanked her 63.5k followers for their support, adding she finds it hard to talk about the attack six months on.
In the powerful post she admitted how close she had come to losing her life.
She wrote: “It brings me to tears thinking about how every bullet that hit me/ the car I was in was made to go through anything, but the only bullet that would’ve hit me straight in the head wasn’t.”
Ryn also told her fans that the guy the bullets were meant for actually apologised to while she lay in hospital.
She penned: “I was laying on a gurney still gushing blood, as if his apology was going to fix anything. I had to learn how to walk again, how to move my toes and my ankles (which i still struggle with and go to physical therapy for).”
In the heartfelt caption, Ryn also revealed that aside from her physical scars she suffers from PTSD and has anxiety attacks when she drives at night.
She said: “I get anxiety anytime I’m stopped at a red light. For a while after my accident I didn’t want to leave the house because I was so afraid.”
Addressing the scars on her legs from the two surgeries her injuries required, she said: “I have days where I love my scars and days where I can’t stand to look at them. Healing is not linear.”
Ryn’s dad Rickey, real name Broderick Dornell Smiley, shocked his fans in July last year when he revealed his daughter had been shot in the legs.
Speaking on his YouTube channel he informed his viewers that Aaryn Smiley had successfully made it out of surgery after being shot.
“My daughter was shot last night,” the 52-year-old said.
“She was on her way to Whataburger to get something to eat.
“I think she was at a stoplight and some guys got out of the car and were shooting at each other and she got hit twice.”
“Today could have been different,” the distraught comedian pondered after thanking God for keeping his daughter alive.
“I could have been down there at the funeral home.”
Rickey condemned gun violence and slammed his community for turning on their own people, especially someone as good as his daughter, “who’s trying to do everything right.”
The Atlanta-based radio host further asked his listeners to pray for the families who have lost family members to gun violence, and donate to their funeral arrangements.
