Why does fez have a scar

• "Euphoria" star Angus Cloud said that he got the scar on his head from breaking his skull in 2013. 
• Cloud said he fell into a construction pit and the injury required screws and a plate put into his head.
• The actor said that he "would have died" if a children's hospital didn't help him. 

"Euphoria" star Angus Cloud detailed the injury that resulted in a broken skull and five days in the ICU back in 2013. 

The actor, known for playing a drug dealer named Fez with a soft side in HBO's hit drama series "Euphoria," has a curved scar that's visible on the left side of his head.

In a new cover story for Variety published on Wednesday as part of the publication's Young Hollywood 2022 issue, Cloud spoke in-depth about what he experienced after falling into a construction pit. 

"I broke my skull on Friday the 13th," Cloud said, explaining that he fell into a ditch at least 10 feet deep while walking alone in the dark in Oakland after hanging out with friends.

"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 told Variety that he was approximately 14 or 15 at the time and though his fingers were broken, he didn't feel any pain because he "was in survival mode."

With blurry vision, the actor said he took the bus home to his mom's house and she took him to a children's hospital. 

"I would have died," he said. "She gave me some water, and I started throwing up hella mouthfuls of crimson red blood. Shit was crazy."

"They saved my life," Cloud said of the hospital workers. "That's what the scar's from. They cut my head open, they put some screws and a plate over where I broke my skull and — shit, sealed me back up, and that was that."

The actor said that he spent five days in the ICU "loaded off morphine," did physical and speech therapy, and felt "blessed to just have minor brain damage."

During a virtual press junket for season two of "Euphoria" in January, Cloud confirmed to Insider that his real-life scar was incorporated into Fez's backstory. 

In the season two premiere, young Fez was shown accidentally getting hit in the head by a crowbar that his grandma was using to beat up drug dealers.

Cloud told Insider that he was "stoked" when he learned that his fan-favorite character Fez would get an origin story in the latest season. 

"The opening scene is just a work of art in itself," he said. "But just how they added in how I got my scar, they made up a whole reason in my backstory of how I got this scar and I was like 'Damn, that's sick.' It's a real scar."

While Angus Cloud brings a lot of his own self to his acting, he's not exactly the same person as his lovable "Euphoria" character, Fez. But there are plenty of striking similarities, and both he and Fez have definitely been through a lot, as Cloud described in a recent interview with Variety. "I broke my skull on Friday the 13th," he said, finally clearing up the mystery surrounding the curved scar on the left side of his scalp. The legitimacy of this injury has been debated by fans of the show since Cloud's debut, but he confirms that it is, in fact, real — and the events leading up to it were nearly fatal.

One night in 2013, as he walked through his hometown in downtown Oakland, CA, the actor accidentally fell into a construction pit at least 10 feet deep — and he didn't wake up until 12 hours later. "I was trapped," he told Variety. Astonishingly, Cloud managed to out of the pit himself despite being seriously injured, including having broken his fingers, because "they wasn't gonna find me down there," he said in his interview. "I found myself. Or God found me, whatever you want to call it."

"I found myself. Or God found me, whatever you want to call it."

The story gets more jaw-dropping from there. After hauling himself out of the construction pit, Cloud took a bus back home to his mom's house (and not a hospital — classic teen move). "She thought I was on drugs, 'cause my pupils was hella dilated. I was trying to tell her what happened, but I could only start a sentence — I couldn't finish it. So I was like, 'I'm just gonna go sleep in my bed,'" he said.

Luckily, his mother stopped him, giving Cloud some water and quickly realizing the urgency of the situation when he started vomiting blood. Cloud's mom brought him to a hospital, where doctors cut open and repaired his fractured skull with screws and a plate.

He spent the next five days in the ICU "loaded off morphine" and then bounced between a few other nonintensive care units before he was officially discharged. "The brain is so fragile," he said. But looking back on the experience now, he feels lucky that things didn't turn out worse. "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," Cloud said.

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