00:04Okay, now from real life sports figures to actors who play them in movies, the guy who
00:11was in The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, Quentin Aaron, he had a really bad year.
00:18He had a stroke, left him fighting for his life.
00:20He's dropped a ton of weight since he filmed that movie with her.
00:23But then, as he's fighting for his life, he found out something about his wife.
00:31What?
00:32This guy has all, he's always in the news.
00:33I know.
00:34This team is your family, Michael.
00:36You have to protect them from those guys.
00:38He's the actor who starred with Oscar winner Sandra Bullock in their 2009 movie The Blind Side.
00:45A very physical role telling the real life story of an NFL offensive lineman who beat the odds.
00:51Go!
00:53Close to real life.
00:54Close to real life.
00:54Three, two, one, you got this.
00:57What?
00:58Yep.
00:59This morning, 41-year-old actor Quentin Aaron is in physical therapy at an Atlanta hospital
01:04trying to learn how to walk on his own after nearly dying in January from a stroke to his spine.
01:10Big question.
01:11Big question.
01:12Big question.
01:13Okay, come back down.
01:14And adding to his pain, he says that while he was hospitalized fighting for his life,
01:18he learned that the woman who he thought was his wife, seen here in photos he posted online,
01:23was still married to someone else.
01:25That's what eventually led to the doctors removing her from around me.
01:30He was in a coma for four days, needed help breathing for a month.
01:34And when he woke up, he says that his family told him that his wife, Margarita, was actually
01:39still married to another man and, as such, could not legally make his medical decisions.
01:45The entire time we were together, she told me she had been divorced for 10-plus years.
01:51She even told the person where we were getting married, oh, yes, I have all the documents I
01:57make an email over to you, the divorce decree.
02:00But you never, you never checked on your own.
02:03That's my biggest mistake, you know.
02:05He and Margarita DeLeon got married two years ago at this wedding chapel in Los Angeles,
02:10seen in these photos from TMZ, with the ring, their wedding license, and her signature,
02:15saying that under penalty of perjury, she was unmarried.
02:18Oh, wow.
02:19When he was sick, his attorney found these records,
02:22showing that she was still the wife of a man she married in 1992.
02:25You did love her.
02:27Yes, yes, I did.
02:29A lot of it was blissful ignorance, a lot of stuff I didn't want to know.
02:33But the woman who he thought was his wife says she simply made a mistake,
02:38failing to realize that her divorce was never finalized,
02:42telling us that there was always tension between her and Quentin Aaron's family.
02:47When I told Quentin back in the hospital bed, and I want to be very honest about this,
02:53and I feel like this needs to be said and brought out.
02:56I said to him, I said,
02:57B.B., this information that your family pulled up on me,
03:02you know, I wasn't aware of it.
03:04I said, this is what I found out.
03:06It is true.
03:08If I had a chance to do it over, I would have done my due diligence.
03:12I would have definitely done a lot more research.
03:15It's been a few, like, over the years.
03:17Aaron says he's now focusing on his recovery, managing the diabetes that led to the stroke.
03:22He's in therapy every day, three hours a day.
03:25That is the benchmark of all inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
03:28And he's continuing to lose weight, down more than 100 pounds from what many of his fans remember.
03:35Yikes.
03:36That's rough.
03:37Make sure your bitch ain't already hitched.
03:40So the family did not like her and looked into her,
03:43because they didn't want her making medical decisions for him.
03:46Right.
03:47Yeah.
03:48When it came out.
03:50No, because, I mean, if someone is, like, married to someone else and you can't really trust them,
03:54I don't know if you want them to be in charge of, like, I've had a stroke.
03:58Yeah.
03:59Oh, am I in his will?
04:00Oh, I think we should just let him go.
04:02Just let him go, baby.
04:03Just let him go.
04:04That's what he wanted.
04:05He wanted to just let go.
04:06You know what I mean?
04:06He's still breathing?
04:07He said, just stop it.
04:08Stop the breathing.
04:09Unplug him.
04:11Yeah, nope.
04:12So she's trying to say she didn't realize she was still married?
04:15Yes.
04:15That is what she's trying to say.
04:16Come on.
04:16And it wasn't finalized.
04:17How do you not know that?
04:18Come on.
04:19Yeah.
04:22I've been looking into everything.
04:24I'm like, Margarita Jones or whatever your name is.
04:26What's your name?
04:27Margarita Jones.
04:28I think it may have been.
04:30What's going on now?
04:32Like, hold on.
04:32That doesn't seem like a real name at all.
04:35I got to look into you.
04:38Margarita de Leon.
04:40Margarita de Leon.
04:41Oh, yeah.
04:41I like Margarita Jones.
04:43Yeah, I do, too.
04:43I'm Margarita Jones.
04:44I don't think so.
04:46Yeah, that's my name.
04:48Margarita Jones.
04:49Let me Google you.
04:50Single.
04:50As the day is long.
04:53But at least he found out now before.
04:56Man.
04:57Yeah, that's tough.
04:58That's a tough watch.
05:00Yeah.
05:01It is for sure.
05:02I hate stories.
05:03I know.
05:04I know you do.
05:04Because it's just anything can happen at any time.
05:06Stroke in your spine.
05:07You don't want a spinal stroke.
05:09No.
05:09It's like that lady said, man.
05:12Who?
05:12Just that one.
05:13The one with the nip cap from the other day.
05:16There's just whatever she said.
05:17I already forgot.
05:19I know.
05:20It was going to be my words to live by.
05:21Yeah, it's not you, but then it is you.
05:24Yeah.
05:25And then this is it.
05:26And then this is it.
05:27Something like that.
05:27You guys got it.
05:28Yeah.
05:29You thought it was so deep.
05:30Exactly.
05:30You stopped the presses.
05:31That's exactly it.
05:32You thought it was too deep for the story.
05:33We'll just always quote that without knowing it.
05:36And you don't think it's you.
05:37And then it's you.
05:38And here we are.
05:39And then you're here.
05:40And there it is.
05:41Or whatever.
05:42Like, that's it.
05:43In a nutshell.
05:45Never can happen to you.
05:46Happens to you.
05:47Aw, damn.
05:48Here you are.
05:48Might not have been you, but then it is.
05:50But then it's you.
05:51Possibly you.
05:51And here it is.
05:52And once it was, and then it's not.
05:55And Margarita Jones.
05:57Done.
05:58I love the quote, Margarita Jones.
06:00Yep.
06:01Margarita Jones.
06:01We got it all wrong.
06:02We heard it once from Margarita Jones.
06:05Margarita Jones once said.
06:06Yep.
06:07You never expect it to happen to you.
06:09And then it does.
06:10And here you are.
06:12Margarita Jones.
06:13Margarita Jones.
06:16Write it down.
06:17Write it down.
06:17In the famous words of Margarita Jones.
06:19I knew that like a big knitted thing.
06:21Yeah.
06:22Yeah.
06:23Yeah.
06:23Like one of those crochet things.
06:25Oh, yeah.
06:25Yeah.
06:26Whatever that is.
06:27Like, who's Margarita Jones?
06:28Oh, she's a philosopher.
06:30Does Ryan remember what that lady said yesterday?
06:32No, what's he not going to run her?
06:33I don't think I remember this.
06:33I was trying to look back at it, but no.
06:35No.
06:36What story was it even in?
06:38It was in the tornado story.
06:40Yeah, it was.
06:40She lost her house.
06:42Yeah, she lost her home.
06:43You know, you see it on the news and you don't expect it to happen to you.
06:45Yeah.
06:46Something.
06:46Did we never do a tornado story?
06:48It was a disaster recap.
06:51You love to show those.
06:52Oh, yeah.
06:53It was all the disasters that happened.
06:55It was the winter weather returns or something, right?
06:57It seems like you don't expect it to be you, but then all of a sudden it is.
07:01And then life is, no, no, that's life.
07:04Life is life.
07:06Life is life.
07:07This is it.
07:09Margarita Jones.
07:09I don't want to know the real quote.
07:11I don't either.
07:11I don't know the real quote.
07:13There she is.
07:14She was.
07:15Let's get how close we are.
07:16Here we go.
07:16Let's hear.
07:17Everything is going to be you.
07:18And then it's you.
07:21And now it's this.
07:22There.
07:23And everything is going to be you.
07:24It's Margarita Jones.
07:25And then it's you.
07:26And now it's this.
07:27Yep.
07:28Margarita Jones.
07:29Margarita Jones.
07:29You better save that because we'll never remember.
07:31Put it in a file.
07:33It should be like a button we can press.
07:35Yeah, we need it.
07:35It's a button that we can press out.
07:37Sorry to give you some work.
07:38I'll do it.
07:39You never think it's going to be you.
07:40And then it's you.
07:43And now it's this.
07:45Margarita Jones.
07:46Margarita Jones.
07:46Margarita Jones.
07:46Margarita Jones said.
07:47As Margarita Jones once said.
07:50You never think it's going to be you.
07:51Yep.
07:52And then it's you.
07:53And then it's you.
07:53And then it is what it is or whatever.
07:56And then it's this.
07:56I already forget.
07:57I already forget it.
07:58Now it's this.
07:59Yep.
07:59Now it's this.
08:02We're the worst.
08:02That's what I was trying to say.
08:04That's what I was trying to say.
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