Billy Boyd From LOTR Almost Died

Billy Boyd aka Pippin from "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, declared he almost died last year, during a break in South Africa. As he was filming "Save Angel Hope" in one of the world's surfing hotspots, he decided he would extend the shoot into a holiday. He said: "I was able to stay on for a couple of weeks and I headed for Durban to do some surfing."

The star was convinced he will die when a giant wave hit him and drag him to the bottom of the sea, during a surf session.

He recalls, "It was horrible, I was trapped on the sea bed, being held down by a wave and I thought, 'Is it going to end like this?'

"I was honestly just sitting on the bottom of the sea thinking, 'I can't move. What am I going to do here?' You just have to hope that the wave passes in time and when it did, I just swam to the light."

Boyd confessed it was really hard for him to pull away from this traumatic memories in order to film his latest movie "On A Clear Day", in which he plays a man who swims the English Channel.

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